 Novak Djokovic vs. Andre Rubelev is the second quarterfinal for the men's Wimbledon for 2023. And both guys have had to fight to get to this stage. Rubelev entered the tournament as the number 7 seed and will take on Purcell in the first round. This is no problem, getting through in straights. 6-3, 7-5, 6-4. In the second round he take on Kuntrim and Karatsev, and after dropping the first set, he'd have to fight back to win 6-7, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. The third round he take on Goffan, who had gotten to the quarterfinals here last year. And after fighting through a couple of tie breaks, Rubelev would eventually win in 4. 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2. In the fourth round he take on the 23rd seed, Bublik, who'd been very impressive to get to this stage and actually beaten Rubelev a couple of weeks ago on the grass. Now, containing the first two sets, Rubelev would fight himself in a dogfight, eventually getting through in 5. 7-5, 6-3, 6-7, 6-7, 6-4, who advanced to his first Wimbledon quarterfinal. Djokovic entered the tournament as the number 2 seed and will take on Kassion in the first round. There's no problem for Nole, getting through in straights. 6-3, 6-3, 7-6. In the second round he take on Thompson. And again, no problems for Nole, getting through in straights. 6-3, 7-6, 7-5. In the third round he take on Stambavrinka, his old enemy, at the slams. But Djokovic was on another level on grass, getting through in straights. 6-3, 6-1, 7-6. In the fourth round he take on the number 17 seed, Hubei Hercatch, who hadn't dropped a set all week. After saving set points in the first set, Djokovic would fight back to win 7-6, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals. These guys have played four times before with Djokovic leading the head-to-head 3-1, but it'll be their first meeting on grass and Djokovic destroyed Rubelev at the start of the year in the Australian Open at the same stage in their last match. If Rubelev's going to win this one, he needs to be super aggressive. And he also needs to serve well. That's something that Hercatch was able to do for the most part of the match against Djokovic in the fourth round. He needs to serve really well. Luckily he did serve well against Bublik, but he needs to start serving even better than that if he's going to push Djokovic around and get a lot of free points. Djokovic is going to win this one. He just needs to play his game. He knows what to do against Rubelev. We saw that in Australia when he had one hamstring because of course he had that problem with the leg in Australia throughout the whole tournament and he was still able to beat Rubelev so easily. So he knows that he just has to play his game and he'll be able to beat Rubelev and grind him down in the end. It's a very interesting match-up because this is probably the only time in the draw that we've actually got some of the big names in the quarter-finals. There's been a lot of random upsets along the way. These guys have avoided that so far, but I'm going to go with Djokovic to win this one in three. It's so hard not to pick him after what happened in Australia at the same stage against Rubelev. And of course, having one leg in Australia, he's got two legs now. So I'm going to go with Djokovic in straights, but let me know down in the comments below. Who do you think is going to win this one?