Wimbledon Women's Betting: Back Bouchard to crash Cornet's party

Is Bouchard set to halt Cornet's progress..

The shock exits are coming thick and fast and Abelson Info discuss whether or not there are more
on the way on Monday...

After an eventful end to the first week of Wimbledon, the ladies draw has now lost the top two seeds with both Serena Williams and Li Na crashing out of the tournament.

Li exited in disappointing fashion against Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova, but the American world number one was undoubtedly the biggest surprise after dominating the first set against Alize Cornet.

However, it wasn't enough as the French star battled back brilliantly to send Williams home, and with all the talk of a quarter-final grudge match with Maria Sharapova over, the draw really is opening up ahead of the second week.

As expected, the fourth round has some exceptional matches to treat us, and while there are still some third round matters to be decided, Monday is likely to provide another gripping day's worth of action.

It all begins with Williams' conqueror, Cornet, as she takes on Eugenie Bouchard with the Canadian labelled as one of the 'rising stars' on the WTA tour, but in reality, she is arguably already amongst the top players in the game.

The 20-year-old is having a memorable year that is going from strength to strength having reached the semi-finals of both the Australian Open and French Open.

In addition, she has added the first of what is expected to be many WTA titles to her trophy cabinet, and all that has resulted in her climbing the world rankings up into 13th. While Cornet did win their only previous meeting, that was in Strasbourg last year on clay, and Bouchard has undoubtedly moved up several gears since then and will be confident of extending her good form on grass.

Nevertheless, Cornet arrives off the back of dumping the top seed out of the tournament, and her confidence will be sky high which makes this clash all the more intriguing.

However, given Bouchard's upward trajectory, we expect the Canadian to continue her solid form although her run without dropping a set at the tournament thus far could come under threat.

Elsewhere, with Williams no longer in the picture, Sharapova will be relishing the situation given her success in Paris earlier this month.

While a quarter-final encounter with Bouchard would undoubtedly produce some brilliant tennis, she will not be looking beyond Angelique Kerber, more so now that the top seeds and tournament favourites are starting to fall.

However, Sharapova holds a 4-1 advantage in their head-to-head record, winning their last three meetings, and the Russian star will be in no mood to let another chance at a Grand Slam title slip out of her grasp.

Meanwhile, back our tournament tip Agnieszka Radwanska to have enough to overcome the threat of Ekaterina Makarova, while Petra Kvitova will fancy her chances against Shuai Peng.

In addition, with Na out of the tournament, Caroline Wozniacki is considered a strong favourite to advance to the next round ahead of her clash with Zahlavova Strycova.

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