Wimbledon 2026: Noskova v Mertens, Kostyuk v Paolini, Fritz v Zverev, Cobolli v Fery in quarter-finals – live

Updates from Wednesday’s last-eight action in SW19
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Noskova and Mertens are winding their way through the No 1 Court tunnel, and tardily arrive on court just past 1pm. They look a little nervous – or perhaps slightly shy – as they enter; for both this is a first Wimbledon quarter-final, though the 21-year-old Noskova did get this far at the 2024 Australian Open and the 30-year-old Mertens three times before at other slams, but not since 2020. They more than deserve this moment in the Wimbledon sun, though, Mertens having taken out the former champion Elena Rybakina in the third round, and Noskova having impressively beaten the Eastbourne winner Madison Keys in the last 16.

One of Fery’s former coaches at Stanford University, Paul Goldstein, who’s flown to London to watch the quarter-final, is being interviewed on the BBC. “Arthur’s an even better human being than tennis player. He has an exceptional emotional maturity beyond his years,” he says, bravely standing in the 30C+ sun by the practice courts. There again he’s from California, this British heatwave is probably nothing to him.