Brother Jamie crashes out of quarter-final stage

face eighth seed Kei Nishikori, who recovered from losing the opening set 6-0 to beat Fernando Verdasco.

Stan Wawrinka and Marin Cilic meet in the other last-eight clash in the top half of the draw, while in the women’s event there were wins for title favourite Simona Halep, Elina Svitolina, Karolina Pliskova and Caroline Garcia.

Garcia won the all-French grudge match against Alize Cornet 6-2 6-4.

The pair fell out in April after Cornet and her Fed Cup team-mates taunted Garcia and have not been on friendly terms since.

There was surprise when Garcia and Cornet not only shared a handshake but a kiss at the net.

“It was the coldest kiss I had in my life but it was a kiss,” said Cornet.

Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will look to set up a semi-final clash today, with Nadal taking on Carreno Busta and Djokovic meeting Dominic Thiem.

Meanwhile, Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares suffered a disappointing loss to Santiago Gonzalez and Donald Young in the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles at the French Open.

The British-Brazilian pair looked in control of the match and Murray served for the victory in the second set but it was Gonzalez and Young who eventually prevailed 3-6 7-6 (7/3) 7-6 (7/4).

Murray and Soares were the highest seeds left in the tournament and had harboured hopes of adding Roland Garros to their Australian and US Open trophies from last year.

Jamie Murray and partner Bruno Soares fell just shy of the semi-finals.