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After all that, the most bonkers tale of these Championships gave way to the most familiar. The marvellous Tim van Rijthoven is on his way home and Novak Djokovic has moved within ominous proximity of a seventh Wimbledon title.
But what a ride of the unexpected. That goes as much for the rise from nowhere of Van Rijthoven as it does the problems he caused one of the game's greats in this last-16 encounter.
It is reasonably well known by now that the 25-year-old had not won a Tour-level match until last month, and has since won a grasscourt title and a further three ties here.
Novak Djokovic moved a step closer to a seventh Wimbledon title, seeing off Tim van Rijthoven
25-year-old Dutchman Van Rijthoven produced a fine performance, taking a set off Djokovic
Even against that trajectory, and with a game suited to the surface, not many would
