WIMBLEDON, England — One by one, the men’s quarterfinal results
came in, with three favorites winning quickly and efficiently in straight sets
Wednesday. But as the sun sank low, Richard Gasquet and Stan Wawrinka kept
pumping their graceful one-handed backhands at each other on Centre Court.The
light was fading, as was perhaps some of the players’ energy, but not their
will to survive, and not the crowd’s reactions, which alternated between
focused silence and enormous 
virtually every point in a protracted
fifth set.
Without
the benefit of a tiebreaker in the deciding set, the two men played on until
the 20th game, when Gasquet finally broke Wawrinka’s serve to win, 6-4, 4-6,
3-6, 6-4, 11-9, in the only thriller of the day. But what a thriller it was.
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