Angelique Kerber reached her second Wimbledon semi-final

An incredible 13 breaks of serve and at the end it was the German left-hander Angelique Kerber who emerged, part joyful, part shell shocked, as a 7-5, 7-6(2) winner of a memorable quarter-final against Simona Halep of Romania.

There will be much head-scratching among the statisticians searching for any previous occasion which featured eight consecutive breaks of serve, as happened in the first set of this match, but both players put this freak down to the fact that they returned at a high level rather than served poorly.

But certainly, Kerber admitted, she could never remember having previously won a match in which she dropped serve six times.