Rafael Nadal eased into the quarter-finals of Wimbledon following another straight-sets win over Botic van de Zandschulp.
The 36-year-old had defeated the 21st seed on his way to the French Open title last month and repeated the trick in SW19 with an efficient 6-4 6-2 7-6 (8-6) victory.
Success over the Dutchman in two hours and 21 minutes saw proceedings on Centre Court end comfortably before the 11pm curfew that almost left defending champion Novak Djokovic in limbo on Sunday, with the roof not even required as the Spaniard stayed on course for a calendar year grand slam.
The 22-time major winner needed more than three-and-a-half hours to win his first-round tie but had grown into the tournament with each contest.
It was the bounce of the balls that caused some initial problems for Nadal and saw him have an early chat with the umpire, before Van de Zandschulp tried in vain to turn this into a close contest.
A wonderful forehand winner on the run earned applause from the Centre Court crowd but it was all too fleeting for the Dutchman, who was broken in the decisive 10th game of the opening set at the second time of asking.
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Five games in a row saw Nadal grasp control of this clash and a delightful drop shot clinched another break, with a third handed over after a double-fault by Van de Zandschulp.
It had taken the double-Wimbledon champion just over two hours to see off Lorenzo Sonego in round two but his eagerness for a rapid finish here hit a speed bump.
While Van de Zandschulp's early break was immediately cancelled out, Nadal's animated punches of the air after he stooped low to make a brilliant backhand winner were short-lived.
The world number 25 hit back from 5-2 down to force a tie-breaker, after both players had slipped on the grass, but a missed forehand smash saw Nadal get over the line from his fifth match point.
It sets up a reunion with Taylor Fritz, who beat the world number four in the Indian Wells final in March.
Fritz again won in straight sets, 6-3 6-1 6-4 over Jason Kubler to extend his winning streak on grass to eight matches after success in Eastbourne last month.
"It is crazy to go from where I was at maybe mentally after Queen's, like feeling injured, I've just lost like three matches in a row, to now I'm in my first slam quarter-final," the 11th seed said.
"It's a big jump. It's so interesting. It's kind of like how tennis is. One, two good weeks, five or six good matches in a row, can kind of just change everything."
Nick Kyrgios battled past Brandon Nakashima and into the quarter-finals of a grand slam for the first time in seven years but struggled with a shoulder problem that could jeopardise his chances of going further.
After the drama and recriminations of his clash with Stefanos Tsitsipas, this was a much less tempestuous affair, with Kyrgios largely keeping his behaviour in check on Centre Court.
It became obvious during the first set that all was not well physically but Kyrgios recovered from a set down and then clinched the decider against 20-year-old American Nakashima, winning 4-6 6-4 7-6 (7-2) 3-6 6-2 to set up a quarter-final against Chile's Cristian Garin.
He has reached the last eight at slams twice before, on his Wimbledon debut in 2014 and then at the Australian Open the following year, losing at that stage both times.
Putting aside all the antics of Saturday night, Kyrgios had played a supremely good tennis match, raising hopes - or fears - that he could challenge for the title.
This was a very different assignment, though. Nakashima, who has climbed the ranks swiftly since leaving college in the US, is a consistent, level-headed young player who was never likely to become riled by Kyrgios' behaviour in the way Tsitsipas did.
There was still some showboating - an underarm serve in only his second service game and a wholly unnecessary between-the-legs shot in the fifth game of the second set - but it soon became clear Kyrgios had other things on his mind.
The 27-year-old began holding his shoulder and grimacing, and a half-hearted service game saw him broken to lose the opening set.
He called the trainer and took a couple of pills after three games of the second set, by which time he was unexpectedly a break ahead thanks to a couple of double faults from his opponent.
Even a poor line call did not prompt anything more than a raised eyebrow from Kyrgios, who began to look more comfortable and raise his service speeds as he levelled the match.
The trainer returned to the court after five games of the third set and this time Kyrgios did take a medical time-out to have his shoulder worked on.
The trainer continued to massage the Australian's shoulder at changes of ends but he was still serving strongly and moved two sets to one ahead after playing an excellent tie-break.
Nakashima, whose expression had barely changed throughout, stayed right in the match, though, and got his reward in the seventh game of the fourth set with a break of serve.
Kyrgios allowed some emotion to show, ranting at his support camp, and his focus had gone completely as he dropped serve again two games later, rolling in serves, including one underarm effort, and slapping groundstrokes away.
He was switched on again at the start of the decider, though, and, after briefly engaging in words with umpire Nico Helwerth over a line call and being told to "stop moaning" by one spectator, broke the Nakashima serve to lead 2-1.
The crowd were fully behind the Australian when he broke again two games later, and he did not look back as he maintained his record of never having lost a five-set match at Wimbledon.
Earlier, Cristian Garin showed amazing tenacity to come from two sets and 3-0 down and save two match points as he beat Australian Alex de Minaur in a hugely entertaining five-set slug fest to reach his first grand slam quarter-final.
Garin eventually triumphed 2-6 5-7 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 7-6 (10-6) after four hours 34 minutes of superb tennis that brought a standing ovation from Wimbledon's packed No 2 Court.
The two men hammered at each other from start to finish with a crowd-pleasing sprinkling of classy drop shots and volleys in among the relentlessly accurate groundstrokes and lung-busting chases to reach them.
De Minaur, a supreme athlete who does not know the meaning of a lost cause, took the first two sets and led 3-0 in the third but Garin hit back, saved two match points at 4-5 in the fifth and then won the new "first to 10" final-set tie-break to set up a last-eight meeting with Kyrgios.
