Venus and Serena back in Wimbledon quarterfinals

In other men’s matches, No. 32 Lucas Pouille of France got past 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6), 7-5, 6-1; 2010 Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych defeated 19-year-old Alexander Zverev 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; No. 15 Nick Kyrgios eliminated No. 22 Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4 to set up a showdown against his pal Andy Murray, who is seeded No. 2 and won the 2013 title; and Jiri Vesely defeated No. 31 Joao Sousa 6-2, 6-2, 7-5. That is because there have been interruptions by rain on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

LONDON (AP) – For only the fourth time in Wimbledon’s 139-year history, matches will be scheduled on the two-week tournament’s middle Sunday. Shvedova then went up 5-2 in the tiebreaker, but stalled as Williams rallied to take command.

Fresh from beating the defending champion at Wimbledon, Sam Querrey has won again.

Kei Nishikori retired from his fourth-round match against Marin Cilic because of injury.

Nishikori beat Andrey Kuznetsov of Russian Federation 7-5, 6-3, 7-5 in less than two hours.

That set up Nishikori against Marin Cilic, who beat the Japanese star in the 2014 U.S. Open final.

Djokovic, who has a 30-match Grand Slam winning streak, was about to serve while trailing 6-5 in the fourth set Saturday, and down two sets to one.

The weather has been a real problem at Wimbledon this week, and organizers have made a decision to play on the middle Sunday for only the fourth time in the tournament’s 139-year history.

After play was suspended, Berdych pleaded with tournament officials to move the match to Centre Court – the only court with lights at the All England Club.

Yet another rain delay in the third round match between Sam Querrey of the USA (R) and Novak Djokovic of Serbia during the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 02 July 2016.

Venus will next face No. 4 Angelique Kerber, the Australian Open champion who held off No. 5 Simona Halep 7-5, 7-6 (2) in the first match on Centre Court, a defensive battle that featured 13 breaks of serve, including eight in a row in the first set.

It took all of 51 minutes at Centre Court on Sunday.

A spectators studies the match fixtures ahead of play during the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 02 July 2016.

After they resumed, Kuznetsova did not take a game.

Play has resumed on the outside courts at Wimbledon after a rain delay of almost two hours.

Novak Djokovic, whose match was stopped by rain on Friday after he lost the opening two sets, was leading Sam Querrey 4-0 in the third set when the rain returned.

Serena Williams and Viktor Troicki each have been fined $10,000 at Wimbledon for unsportsmanlike conduct. On No. 1 court, five-time champion Venus Williams is up against Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan.

She reached the fourth round last year, but lost in the third round the year before. The first set, I felt like I had so many opportunities, but then she would play so well.

The Williams sisters are back in the Wimbledon quarterfinals, 16 years after they first made it this far together at the All England Club. Centre Court tickets will cost 70 pounds ($93), while No. 1 Court tickets will be 40 pounds ($53) and grounds passes will be 20 pounds ($27).

The 18th-seeded American saved a match point in the second-set tiebreaker on Friday, but the match was then suspended by rain with the score tied at 3-3 in the third set.

Milos Raonic of Canada hits a return to Jack Sock of the United States during their men’s singles third round match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Britain, on July 2, 2016.

Centre Court has a roof, but organizers prefer to play with it open for as long as possible.

Early in the third set, Kuznetsova argued with chair umpire Marijana Veljovic about whether she was receiving help from her coach, which is not allowed at Grand Slam matches. Raonic won 3-0. Seven-time champion Roger Federer is the only man already into the fourth round, thanks to a straight-set victory over Daniel Evans on Friday.