Wimbledon day nine: Home favourite Norrie can give Alcaraz plenty to think about

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Best bets for Tuesday's Wimbledon matches

Carlos Alcaraz to win & over 32.5 games vs Cameron Norrie
2pts Evs bet365

Taylor Fritz -3.5 games on handicap vs Karen Khachanov
1pt 8-11 Coral, Ladbrokes

Laura Siegemund +6.5 games on the handicap vs Aryna Sabalenka
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Carlos Alcaraz to win & over 32.5 games vs Cameron Norrie @ Evs

Carlos Alcaraz’s 22-match winning streak is unlikely to be halted by Cameron Norrie, but the Brit has the home crowd on his side and the second seed has dropped sets in three of his four Wimbledon wins.

Taylor Fritz to beat Karen Khachanov @ 3-10 

Taylor Fritz has lost only one of his 13 matches during this grass-court campaign and the American’s big serve should power him past Karen Khachanov, who has been blessed by a soft route through to the quarters.

Amanda Anisimova to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova @ 2-5

Amanda Anisimova hinted that she could be a potential Wimbledon dark horse with her run to the Queen’s final in June and, having won all three previous meetings with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, she can sail into the semis.

Laura Siegemund +6.5 games on the handicap vs Aryna Sabalenka @ 10-11

World number one Aryna Sabalenka is likely to prove too strong but a handicap start of +6.5 games may severely underestimate Laura Siegemund, who has yet to drop a set and upset Australian Open champion Madison Keys in round three.

Total odds: @ 5.94-1

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Wimbledon day nine predictions

Tuesday's action from the All England Club sees the start of the quarter-finals and Centre Court will play host to the two tournament favourites in women's top seed Aryna Sabalenka and defending men's champion Carlos Alcaraz.

Sabalenka mixes it with unseeded German Laura Siegemund while Alcaraz, chasing a Wimbledon hat-trick, will be looking to play pantomime villain when he takes on Britain's Cameron Norrie.

Court One sees Taylor Fritz do battle with Karen Khachanov while his American compatriot Amanda Anisimova will lock horns with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

Cameron Norrie vs Carlos Alcaraz

Cameron Norrie is the last British player standing at this season’s Wimbledon but it doesn’t get much tougher than a quarter-final clash with Carlos Alcaraz.

Norrie, a semi-finalist in 2022, has enjoyed a resurgence at the All England Club and he showed plenty of fight in his five-set victory over big-serving Chilean Nicolas Jarry in the last 16.

However, Alcaraz is seeking a hat-tick of wins at Wimbledon and he has illustrated his dominance with a 22-match winning streak, a sequence which saw him claim his fifth Grand Slam title at the French Open last month.

That shows the size of the task that Norrie is faced with, but Alcaraz can go through lulls in his matches and can't always be trusted to produce routine wins.

The Spanish superstar has dropped a set in three of his four Wimbledon victories and only five of his last 15 wins were recorded in straight sets.

Norrie, with the crowd to help, may be able to delay his fate and he will be buoyed by the fact that he has got the better of Alcaraz in two of their last three meetings.

Taylor Fritz is in the hunt for a maiden Grand Slam title Credit: CameraSport via Getty Images

Taylor Fritz vs Karen Khachanov

Taylor Fritz has fallen at the quarter-final hurdle in two of the last three years at Wimbledon, but the much-improved American should make it third time lucky against Karen Khachanov.

Fritz was runner-up at last season’s US Open and he warmed up for Wimbledon by taking grass-court titles in Stuttgart and at Eastbourne.

Khachanov’s powerful groundstrokes are a weapon but only one of his four Wimbledon victims were housed in the world’s top 80 and he has profited from a soft schedule.

A fired-up Fritz has been broken only four times in as many matches and, while he needed five sets against big servers Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and Gabriel Diallo, he may find this test less taxing.

Khachanov has also twice gone the distance, prevailing in five against Shintaro Mochizuki and Nuno Borges, but that form is easier to pick holes in.

Aryna Sabalenka vs Laura Siegemund

Women's top seed Aryna Sabalenka has made the last eight of Wimbledon on the back of four straight-set wins, but German veteran Laura Siegemund may be able to make her toil for victory.

Sabalenka’s last three successes over Marie Bouzkova, Emma Raducanu and Elise Mertens all featured a tiebreak and each of those victims were able to stay within three games of the world number one.

Siegemund, having won all of her matches 2-0 which includes upsetting world number eight Madison Keys, may be able to put all of her experience to good use and keep this quarter-final clash competitive.

Amanda Anisimova vs Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

A maiden Wimbledon semi-final awaits either Amanda Anisimova or Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and it is easy to see why the layers are favouring the prospects of the younger player.

Anisimova finished runner-up to Tatjana Maria at Queen’s Club last month and a battling three-set victory over the dangerous Linda Noskova last time out should have enhanced her growing belief.

The world number 12 has won all three previous meetings with Pavlyuchenkova, two of which took place last season, and she is likely to maintain that superiority.

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