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title: "Tennis: Australian Open champion Kerber into Wimbledon last-eight"
description: "Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber breezed into the Wimbledon quarter-finals with a straight sets victory over Japan's Misaki Doi on Monday."
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published: "2016-07-04T14:53:46"
updated: "2016-07-04T14:55:18"
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# Tennis: Australian Open champion Kerber into Wimbledon last-eight

> Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber breezed into the Wimbledon quarter-finals with a straight sets victory over Japan's Misaki Doi on Monday.

By AFP · Published 4 July 2016, 16:53 SAST · Updated 4 July 2016, 16:55 SAST

## Content

The German fourth seed won 6-3, 6-1 on Court Two in a one-sided, 64-minute contest against the world number 49.

Kerber faces either fifth seed Simona Halep of Romania or US ninth seed Madison Keys in Tuesday's quarter-finals.

Doi was the first Japanese woman to reach the last 16 of any Grand Slam event since Ai Sugiyama made the Wimbledon fourth round in 2006.

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