LONDON – Virginia women’s tennis alumne Emma Navarro ’22 and Danielle Collins ’16 are the last two American women remaining in the singles field at the Championships at the All England Club in Wimbledon, England.
Navarro defeated No. 2 seed Coco Gauff on Sunday (July 7) to advance to her first-ever quarterfinal of a Grand Slam event. Collins advanced to the Round of 16 on Saturday (July 6) with a straight-set win against 20-seed Beatriz Haddad Maia. Collins will take on No. 32 Barbora Krejcikova on Monday (July 8) as the third match on Court 1, looking to join Navarro in the final eight.
Navarro collected her first-ever win at Wimbledon with a dominant 6-0, 6-2 victory against China’s Qiang Wang in the opening round. Navarro then took Centre Court, facing four-time Grand Slam Champion Naomi Osaka in the second round, logging a 6-4, 6-1 victory. She won in three sets against NC State alumna Diana Shnaider in the third round. Shnaider and Navarro were doubles partners at the French Open, advancing to the quarterfinals, and had also faced one another a week earlier in the semifinals at Bad Hamburg and in the finals of a lead-up to the French Open in Paris in May with Shnaider winning both of those meetings.
With the win against Gauff, Navarro has two wins over…
