LONDON _ Even when she lost her opening set Tuesday to Italy's Camila Giorgi, Serena Williams didn't lose her cool.
The seven-time Wimbledon winner bounced back in a quarterfinal match to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 and maintain her status as the favorite in the women's draw.
"It's weird," she said. "Sometimes I feel, 'Man, I'm in trouble.' Sometimes I feel, I can fight. For whatever reason, today I was so calm. Even when I was down the first set, I thought, 'Well, she's playing great. I'm doing a lot of the right things. It is what it is.' "
Williams will play Germany's Julia Goerges, who before this tournament had never made it past the fourth round of a Grand Slam event. So this is uncharted territory for the No. 13 player in the world.
"I don't have many words today to describe the moment I'm going through right now," said Goerges, who beat Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands 3-6, 7-5, 6-1. "It's pretty unreal for me at the moment to get to that stage at a Grand Slam. It's been obviously always a dream for every player, to be in a semis in Wimbledon."
Even though the top 10 seeds in the women's draw were eliminated before the quarterfinals, it's not as if this is a field of nobodies. Among the players still alive are Angelique Kerber, a former world No. 1 who won two major championships in 2016 and was a Wimbledon finalist who lost to Williams; and Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko, who is ranked 12th in the world and won last year's French Open.
Williams is ranked No. 181 in the world but is seeded 25th in the tournament. She returned to the sport earlier this year after giving birth to her first child.
