Andrey Rublev recovered from squandering two match points in the fourth set to fight off a valiant Alexander Bublik Sunday and reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the first time.

The World No. 7 was in firm control of the match after winning the opening two sets. But Bublik claimed the third and fourth sets in tie-breaks and kept the 25-year-old on the backfoot with massive serving before Rublev roared back to win 7-5, 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-7(5) 6-4 after three hours and 17 minutes.

Rublev, who fired 20 aces to Bublik’s 39, will next face the winner of seven-time champion Novak Djokovic and Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz.

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