{"id":8824,"date":"2018-07-10T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=8824"},"modified":"2018-07-10T09:55:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T13:55:56","slug":"wimbledon-2018-daria-kasatkina-battles-past-alison-van-uytvanck-to-reach-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2018\/07\/10\/wimbledon-2018-daria-kasatkina-battles-past-alison-van-uytvanck-to-reach-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2018: Daria Kasatkina battles past Alison Van Uytvanck to reach quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>14th seed\u00a0<strong>Daria Kasatkina\u00a0<\/strong>has advanced to her second straight Major quarterfinal after rallying past\u00a0<strong>Alison Van Uytvanck\u00a0<\/strong>6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-2. The Russian and Belgian went the distance for the second straight week after Kasatkina also prevailed in three sets in\u00a0<strong>Eastbourne.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A hot start from the Belgian, ranked 47th, saw her claim eight of the first 11 points to jump out to a 2-0 lead. The Russian would immediately hit back, a forehand winner on break point putting the set back on serve.<\/p>\n<p>Both players were seemingly breaking at will, Van Uytvanck again grabbing the initiative in the sixth game for a 4-2 lead, but again Kasatkina would respond. With the server settling down, the 14th seed finally gained the upper hand with a break in the 11th game.<\/p>\n<p>Serving for the set, an unlikely scenario just a few games ago, Kasatkina wasted a 30-0 lead and a sixth break ensured a tiebreak. Van Uytvanck won a couple of points by serving and volleying and at 7-6, she was gifted the set when the Russian double-faulted.<\/p>\n<p>It was almost a disastrous start to the second set for Kasatkina as she fought off numerous break points to hold in the opening game with a forehand winner. She was in trouble again in the third game, this time Van Uytvanck grabbing the break to take a commanding lead.<\/p>\n<p>When she is aggressive, Kasatkina is a very dangerous player and she demonstrated that in the next four games, breaking twice, the first with a another forehand winner, to take a 5-2 lead. Once more, she faced three break points trying to serve out the set. Saving them all, she ripped a backhand dowm the line on set point to force a deciding third set.<\/p>\n<p>Van Uytvanck was shaken and a double-fault in the opening game of the final set paved the way for Kasatkina to break. The Belgian&#8217;s backhand wing broke down and combined with the Russian&#8217;s easy string of service holds. Her struggles continued as she was broken in the fifth game.<\/p>\n<p>The wWrld #47 saved a host of match points in the seventh game before forcing Kasatkina to serve it out, which she did to set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wimbledon<\/a> quarterfinal showdown with 11th seed\u00a0<strong>Angelique Kerber.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"wa77iuCETrhsxHUV6yZrVA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/995184564\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'wa77iuCETrhsxHUV6yZrVA',sig:'gG24fijCX38rcr5BkgT4_jtneYanM3_FcHuIA8tv2l8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'995184564',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14th seed\u00a0Daria Kasatkina\u00a0has advanced to her second straight Major quarterfinal after rallying past\u00a0Alison Van Uytvanck\u00a06-7 (5), 6-2, 6-2. The Russian and Belgian went the distance for the second straight week after Kasatkina also prevailed in three sets in\u00a0Eastbourne.\u00a0 A hot start from the Belgian, ranked 47th, saw her claim eight of the first 11 points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":8829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3200,3446,416],"class_list":["post-8824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2018-wimbledon","tag-alison-van-uytvanck","tag-daria-kasatkina"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}