Wimbledon 2023: Eubanks, Keys and Pegula surge into quarterfinals

The last three Americans still alive in singles have all made it past the fourth round and into the final eight at Wimbledon. 

On Monday at the All England Club, Christopher Eubanks won a brutal five-setter against No. 5 Stefanos Tsitsipas and 25th-seeded Madison Keys took out Mirra Andreeva in three sets, to follow fourth-seeded Jessica Pegula, who won Sunday, into the quarters.

Eubanks, ranked No. 43 heading into the tournament after taking home his first ATP crown in Mallorca, has won over the crowds in SW19 and made a name for himself with American and international fans alike. The 27-year-old former Georgia Tech star notched his first Top 20 win when he beat the top Brit and world No. 13 Cameron Norrie in Round 2, followed by his first Top 5 win after he defeated Tsitsipas from two-sets-to-one down, 3-6, 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Eubanks took his chances when he had them over the course of 3 hours and 4 minutes. After not having a single break point on Tsitsipas' serve in the first three sets, the Greek double-faulted to gift him the decisive break in the ninth game of the fourth set. In the fifth, Eubanks caught lightning in a bottle: Opening up a 0-40 lead on Tsitsipas' serve at 3-3, a cleanly-struck backhand winner down-the-line earned him the break that won him the match.

He said this run has been a “dream come true.”

“It's tough to really put into words, but to be able to come out today and play the way that I did, just kind of take everything in, it's surreal,” Eubanks said.

In the quarterfinals, the 6-foot-7 American will face off against No. 3 Daniil Medvedev, who was once the world No. 1. But while Medvedev has a US Open title and is a three-time runner-up at Grand Slams, this is his first Wimbledon quarterfinal.

On the women’s side, Keys battled back in her own win over the 16-year-old Andreeva for her ninth straight victory. This is her ninth major quarterfinal appearance, and her second at Wimbledon after first doing so in 2015. 

Fresh off her Eastbourne title, Keys didn't lose a set through her first three rounds at the All England Club, but was given all she could handle by the prodigious Andreeva, who led 6-3, 4-1 and had a break point for 5-1. 

World No. 4 Pegula was the first American to punch her ticket into the quarterfinals after defeating Tsurenko, 6-1, 6-3. She cruised in 75 minutes over former World No. 23 Tsurenko, who had the distinction of being the winner of the longest-ever tiebreak in a women's Grand Slam match with her 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(18) win over Romania's Ana Bogdan in Round 3.

This is Pegula’s first time reaching the quarterfinals at the All England Club—she has now reached the quarterfinals at all four Grand Slams. But she's looking to reach her first semifinal, having gone 0-5 in major quarterfinals to date.

The Buffalo, N.Y. native will play Marketa Vondrousova—the 2019 Roland Garros runner-up—on No. 1 Court at the start of play on Tuesday, before taking on Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva alongside Coco Gauff in the late afternoon in the third round of the doubles draw.