How it feels to beat Williams at Wimbledon MyZA

What it feels like to beat Serena Williams at Wimbledon. Photo: AP

Serena Williams was astonished by Sabine Lisicki. Call it Wimble-done.

Serena Williams won’t win Wimbledon this year, joining a list of bracket carnage that includes Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka.

That’s 42 major championships gone before the quarterfinals, a stunning result in a sport that has shown much early-round consistency in the past decade.

The woman who did it? Sabine Lisicki, a big-hitting, big-serving German who had thrived at the All England Club in the past four years but waited until 2013 to pull her biggest upset.

“I’m still shaking,” she told the BBC. “I’m so happy.”

How big was Serena’s three-set loss to Sabine Lisicki? It was her first loss in 34 matches, it gave Lisicki her fourth ever Wimbledon win over the reigning French Open champion and it makes the women’s field so wide open that the words “Sloane Stephens, Wimbledon champion” are a realistic possibility on Saturday afternoon.

The loss leaves Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitova as the only remaining Wimbledon champions in either draw and means that short of a Djokovic-Andy Murray men’s final, this weekend’s Wimbledon championships could have a minor tournament feel. – For the Win