Snapshot of day eight at Wimbledon

PLAYER OF THE DAY: Johanna Konta – the Sydney-born star sent home fans into a state of frenzy with her heartstopping 6-7 (2-7) 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 victory over world No.2 Simona Halep to become the first British woman into the semi-finals in 39 years.

STAT OF THE DAY: Unheralded world No.87 Magdalena Rybarikova is the lowest-ranked woman to make the semi-finals since 2008 following her 6-3 6-3 defeat of the Pat Cash-coached American Coco Vandeweghe.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was a wrong decision not to play us last night, because we could have played,” three-time champion Novak Djokovic left frustrated after having his fourth-round match postponed in a scheduling debacle.

HOW THE AUSSIES FARED: Men’s doubles top seed John Peers and his Finnish partner Henri Kontinen were locked at a set apiece and on serve in the third when rain forced the overnight suspension of their quarter-final with French Open champions Michael Venus and Ryan Harrison. Junior boys’ hope Blake Ellis was potentially two games from a berth in the third round when play was stopped with the Queenslander leading Mexico’s Alan Fernando Rubio Fierros 6-3 5-5.

TALKING POINT: The shoddy state of tennis’s most famous centre court after three-time champion Novak Djokovic pointed out a hole in the surface near the service-line T and then declaring “the courts, honestly, are not that great this year and many players feel the same.”

TOURNAMENT SUMMARY: Five-time champion Venus Williams will face Konta in one semi-final after ending the 11-match winning streak of French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko while Rybarikova takes on 2015 runner-up Garbine Muguruza, who eliminated Svetlana Kuznetsova in her quarter-final.

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