Keys saw it through, possibly to her cost, she was clearly seriously injured for the last hour.
To her credit, she made the decision to continue, and just got on with it, no histrionics, no complaint, no attempt to delay proceedings at any point, just understandable upset which she was trying to contain.
It was quite stoic and admirable on the tour where retirements for negligible reasons are commonplace and even encouraged by prominent commentators pundits and coaches.
It was though probably inadvisable. I admired the dignity of her approach though.

But, for Johanna, definitely the better match, as Keys can beat anyone if it all comes together on any given day.
Back when Zhang reached WR30 she was playing very good tennis, and I thought she would be at worst a top 50 fixture for years, in the manner that her compatriot, Jie Zheng was - they have very similar games.
Then she just disappeared.
This AO though she's back, for sure. Not playing as well as her previous high, but still able to construct good points and move the opponent around - that latter part based, ironically not one bit on today, where she struggled to put a lame Madison away, but on her other matches, especially those against Halep & Cornet.

Jo should be wary, but confident. Every chance!

A bit of a double edged sword for Konta playing Zhang.

There will be lots of pressure on her given the rankings difference and she'll never have a better chance to get to a GS semi-final. Zhang given her plans for retirement might just be relaxed and play very well.

In some ways I would have preferred Konta to play Keys who although very good can be very error prone and Konta would have much less pressure on her.

I fear the media will already have her in the semi-finals. If Konta plays to her recent level then she should win but its going to be nerve wracking stuff!

I hope they schedule Kontas match for a nice time for us in Europe!

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it's hard to believe there are two brits playing at the same time on adjacent courts for quarter final places. Now statisticians, when was the last time lol

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On day 8 of last year's US Open, JoKo played Kvitová in R4 4th on Ashe (i.e. 1st night match) and Andy played a long 4-setter in R4 against Kevin Anderson 3rd on Armstrong, so they may have overlapped but I can't remember. 

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I'm sad, I looked

Helpfully, in the Womens thread for last years USO, tony_orient wrote: "Murray and Konta's matches are annoyingly in sync meaning the changeovers are happening at exactly the same time."
So, they did indeed overlap.

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Thanks, I should have thought of checking there!

Given that the last time a British man and woman reached singles QFs at the same slam was 1977, the last time they actually WON slam R4 matches that overlapped must have been at least 39 years ago and probably longer (though maybe not - John Lloyd and Robin Drysdale both made the 1977 AO QFs, so maybe one of them overlapped with Sue Barker), giving the kind of result Jiwan was probably hoping for - and I'm afraid that's beyond us (speaking for myself, at least!)

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 Thanks for reminding everyone of a typo I made 4 months ago  (now corrected). I remember it being quite close at the time who was the last Brit standing but Andy lasted about 5 minutes more than Jo. Thankfully different results for both today.

 

Jo's amazing performance continues and she continues to surprise me. Looking forward to catching up on her match today when work commitments are finally over.

 

Could be worth getting a long night's sleep in tonight in preparation for Wednesday morning.

 

Not any more the nation expects a semi final

Not great timing - I was expecting Jo to be first match on.

True, and far fewer players on the tour too