Tennis: Quiet, Please! Wimbledon Day 7

Wimbledon's week two kicked off after a day of rest. For the men's top seeds, it was business as usual. For the women, day seven was a catastrophe.

Venus Williams was dumped out by Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova for the second year in a row, while her sister Serena was taken out by Marion Bartoli. Bartoli needed five match points to finish off the job, but finally got through in straight sets.

Maria Sharapova avoided the embarrassment, but Caroline Wozniacki was not so lucky - she crashed out against Dominika Cibulkova.

Under the watchful eyes of William and Kate, Andy Murray put in a sublime performance against enigmatic Frenchman Richard Gasquet. The Scot was clinical on Centre Court and served out the match with an ace, before bowing to the royal couple.

That means Murray will next play his mum's favourite Spaniard, 'Deliciano' Lopez.

"I think it is about time she stopped with that nonsense. It makes me want to throw up. It's disgusting. Yeah, it's disgusting," Murray joked.

Roger Federer dropped a set, but then cruised past Mikhail Youzhny, while Rafael Nadal battled through against Juan Martin Del Potro.

Eighteen-year-old Bernard Tomic is the youngest quarter-finalist at Wimbledon since Boris Becker in 1986. The world No 158 raced to a straight sets win over Xavier Malisse and will face Novak Djokovic next, who disposed of Michael Llodra 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.

But the Serb has got all sorts of concerns leading up to his match with Tomic. First, Tim Henman called for Djokovic to be hit with a penalty of "thousands of pounds" after some excessive racquet abuse in his match against Marcos Baghdatis (ignore the fact that Henman was once thrown out of Wimbledon for smashing a ball at 148kmph into a ballgirl's head).

Now, he's has been warned he cannot bring his pet poodle Pierre with him to the All England Club.

Pierre is a white toy poodle and will make an appearance on the cover of the July edition of L'Uomo Vogue fashion magazine.

The Telegraph reports that Djokovic is said to be making representations "at the highest level" to get the pooch access to the Championships.

Thankfully, the Djoker still has the company of a squirrel that comes to visit him each morning. He tweeted a photo of his furry friend who "wishes him luck" every day.

- HERALD ONLINE