London: Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz targets the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Sunday against a piano-playing Frenchman, while Emma Raducanu has British fans dreaming of a first home women's champion in 47 years. Alcaraz, chasing a fourth Grand Slam title, is attempting to become just the sixth man to win the French Open and Wimbledon back-to-back. After cruising through the first two rounds, the Spanish world number three twice trailed by a set before defeating Frances Tiafoe in the round of 32.
"I realise that I'm a good player in the fifth set," said the 21-year-old. "I push the opponent just to be at his 100% physically and mentally, and play at his 100%. Sometimes for the other player it is difficult to keep at this kind of intensity.
" World number 16 Humbert is in the fourth round for the second time, five years after reaching the same stage. Away from the courts, the left-handed French number one can be found playing the piano, a passion since he was five years old. "I love music.
I play a little bit of electric guitar, but I'm better at piano," he said "When you play piano, you are only with you. It's great to have the time to be alone, to enjoy. In tennis, it's the opposite.
" Humbert is one of three Frenchmen to have made the last 16 at this year's Wimbledon. Three years after her breakthrough summer when a run to the last 16 at Wimbledon was followed by an historic US Open title, Raducanu is making headlines again. The British star, now ranked 135 after a depress.