• Croat beats France’s Jérémy Chardy in fourth round
• Unfancied champion is proving a black horseMarin Cilic must be the most lightly regarded champion at a major championship since the Argentinian Gastón Gaudio,who got to No5 in the world and whose career highlight was winning the French Open in 2004, the year before Rafael Nadal’s long Parisian reign began.
Those were the days before the duopoly of Nadal and Roger Federer, or before the arrival of Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray,a time so distant it seems as it if were in the final century. But Cilic brought sobriety back to the equation here final year when he beat Kei Nishikori in three lacklustre sets to became the first champion from outside the top 10 since Pete Sampras, ranked 17 in the world, and won it in his farewell to the game in 2002.
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Source: theguardian.com