#4. Garbine Muguruza
The Spaniard dropped out of the Top 10 after an overwhelming defeat to Kristina Mladenovic in the fourth round of the French Open, thus failing to defend her winners’ points from last year. Muguruza did not have a very good build-up to Wimbledon as well as she lost in the semi-finals of the Birmingham Classic to Ashleigh Barty which was followed by a disastrous second round defeat at the Eastbourne International at the hands of Barbora Strycova where she won only one game.
The World No.14 began her Wimbledon campaign with a convincing straight-set win over Ekaterina Alexandrova by the scoreline of 6-2, 6-4 following which, she defeated 2009 US Open semi-finalist Yanina Wickmayer in the second round by the same score.
In the third round, the 2016 French Open champion trounced former French Open quarter-finalist Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 6-2 to set up a clash against top seed Angelique Kerber. Against Kerber, Muguruza dropped her first set of the tournament but came back to take the second set 6-4.
Muguruza eventually went on to win the third set to all but dethrone Kerber from the No.1 ranking and enter her second Wimbledon quarter-final. In the quarter-finals, the former finalist here will face two-time Grand Slam champion and 7th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova, who will be playing her fourth Wimbledon quarter-final.
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