Westmount's Eugenie Bouchard has advanced to the semi-finals at Wimebledon with a straight set 6-3, 6-4, victory over Germanys Angelique Kerber.
Bouchard will now face the Romanian Simona Halep, 22, in the semi-finals Thursday. Halep beat Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 6-0 Wednesday.
Bouchard hit 26 winners while making 20 unforced errors in her victory over Kerber. She broke her left-handed opponent three times in 13 chances in the the 72-minute victory, her second over the same opponent in a month.
The 20-year-old Montrealer was broken just once by Kerber, who hit 17 winners and made 14 unforced errors.
Halep, world ranked number three, beat Bouchard in a tough three-setter in their only previous head-to-head matchup earlier this year at Indian Wells.
"I’m definitely ready for a tough match tomorrow," she told a TV reporter after the match. "I’m excited to be in the semis again and ready to go."
Bouchard took a lead against Kerber Wednesday by breaking serve in the eighth game of the first set and then held serve to take a hard-fought first set against Germany's Angelique Kerber Wednesday.
The 20-year-old Bouchard was accurate with her serve throughout the set and would eventually rack up four aces but also double faulted the same number of times.
Bouchard took a commanding 4-1 lead with two breaks in the second set but Kerber broke back and pushed Bouchard to break point in the deciding game. Bouchard held tight and fought back to serve out for the victory against her fiery opponent.
The seventh-ranked Kerber had advanced to the quarterfinals Tuesday by upsetting Maria Sharapova in a tough three-set battle.
Bouchard, who becomes the only woman to advance to the semis of all three slams this year, appeared fresh after enjoying a day off Tuesday. She is now 15-2 this year in Grand Slam play.
Bouchard, with the victory, rose to a career-best eighth in the WTA rankings, which will be announced Monday. That ranking equals the career-best WTA ranking held by a Canadian, reached by Toronto's Carling Bassett-Seguso in 1985.
