Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal needed little time to ease into the quarter-finals at Wimbledon, where they will be joined by Novak Djokovic after he won his race against time on Monday .

Federer won the first set against Adrian Mannarino in just 16 minutes en route to a 6-LOVE, 7-5 , 6-4 win, while Nadal was similarly emphatic in defeating Jiri Vesely.

Djokovic had to wait until after 7PM (local time) to get onto No. 1 Court in his match with Karen Khachanov, but capitalised on an error-strewn showing from the Russian to prevail before fading light stopped play.

Juan Martin Del Potro was not as fortunate, Gilles Simon forcing a fourth set before their contest was brought to a halt.

Djokovic had criticised the Centre Court crowd following his triumph over home favourite Kyle Edmund on Saturday, but had no such qualms after his 6-4 6-2 6-2 victory over Khachanov.

Asked if the spectators had been more to his liking this time around, he said: “Absolutely. It was great. I enjoyed it.

“I served well when I needed to. It was really difficult conditions. Last couple of games, I couldn’t really see the ball, it was already very dark.”

Kei Nishikori is next up for Djokovic after beating Ernests Gulbis in four sets.

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Nadal hit 37 winners and made only 12 unforced errors in beating Vesely 6-3 6-3 6-4, keeping him on course to face Federer in the final, 10 years on from their epic in 2008.