American Coco Gauff recovered from dropping the opening set to defeat Belinda Bencic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday and reach her first Wimbledon quarterfinal -- the only major where she had yet to reach that stage.
Gauff, the No. 7 seed, converted her first match point with a service winner out wide at 10:58 p.m. local time -- just two minutes before the All England Club's 11 p.m. curfew. She tapped her left wrist with the fingers on her right hand to acknowledge the timely ending.
Had she been broken, the match would have been suspended and resumed Monday.
"Super happy to be in the quarters, finally," Gauff said in her on-court interview. "I was looking at the clock the last service game. I was like, 'I got to hit some big serves and some big shots.' And honestly, that match point, I was going for a serve and volley because I was like, 'I need to end the point.'
"That was probably the most dramatic finish. I've never had to race against time. Playing tennis, we're used to not having a clock. But honestly, today I felt the pressure. ... Glad I didn't choose basketball."
Gauff said it "kind of reminded me of" Kawhi Leonard's shot for the Toronto Raptors in 2019 that bounced off the rim four times before becoming the first Game 7 buzzer-beater in NBA history.
Gauff did play basketball as a kid. But, she said, "I did not hit any buzzer-beaters."
Gauff, 22, became the youngest American woman to reach the quarterfinals at each of the Grand Slams since Serena Williams did so at 19 years old at the 2001 French Open.
With the win, Gauff set up an all-American quarterfinal clash with No. 4 Jessica Pegula, who defeated fellow American Iva Jovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 earlier Sunday. It will be the first all-American ladies' match at Wimbledon between top-10 seeds since the 2009 final between Serena and Venus Williams.
"It will be the third flat hitter I've played in a row," Gauff said. "The last two matches I've had definitely gave me prep for her."
Gauff has 17 major-match wins after losing the first set. She improved to 23-7 in three-setters at majors, the third-best record by any woman in the Open era after Steffi Graf and Wendy Turnbull (minimum 25 matches).
Gauff had reached the fourth round four times in her Wimbledon career, including during her breakthrough run as a 15-year-old in 2019. Now, for the first time, she has gone one step further.
"I'm definitely hungry for more. But it's a great accomplishment," Gauff said.
Also on Sunday, Barbora Krejcikova's loss to Karolina Muchova ensured the tournament will crown a new women's champion.
Krejcikova, the 2024 winner, was the only former champion left in the women's draw after Iga Swiatek, Elena Rybakina and Serena Williams all went out earlier.
Krejcikova followed suit with a 7-5, 5-7, 6-3 loss to fellow Czech player Muchova on No. 2 Court, guaranteeing a 10th different women's champion in the past 10 Wimbledons, already the longest run in the tournament's history.
No woman has won multiple Wimbledon titles since Serena Williams won her seventh in 2016.
Muchova will play 14th-seeded Naomi Osaka, who knocked out world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 7-6 (2) on Centre Court.
Pegula's match against the 18-year-old Jovic -- the last remaining teenager in the men's or women's draw -- featured a combined 13 breaks, including seven in the opening set.
Pegula has won 34 of her past 37 matches against her American compatriots, dating to October 2023; her only losses in that span came against occasional doubles partner Gauff (2024 WTA finals and 2025 Wuhan) and Madison Keys (2025 Adelaide).
Pegula will be making her second career appearance in the Wimbledon quarterfinals.
ESPN Research and The Associated Press contributed to this report.