Harriet Dart’s holiday on hold as she progresses to last eight of mixed doubles

British youngster Harriet Dart is having to put her holiday on hold after getting through to the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon mixed doubles with Jay Clarke.

Dart, 21, was due to go on a week-long break to Santorini on Wednesday but she did not account for conquering top seeds Mate Pavic and Gabriela Dabrowski 6-3 6-4 on Tuesday.

The youngsters, who were both handed wild cards into the singles last week, will now meet the winner of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Abigail Spears and Robin Haase and Kirsten Flipkens.

Dart said: “I was supposed to go on holiday tomorrow, that’s ruined! I will be going late.

“We will take it match-by-match and see how it goes. It’s a bit mad isn’t it. To be honest, I haven’t really thought it through, I will just take it day by day. But it’s great.”

Clarke, 19, and Dart have never played together up until this tournament, but they are having fun.

Clarke added: “We have never played together so we didn’t know what to expect. You have to enjoy, you can’t take doubles too seriously.

“We have a chance now. Everyone is tough, a lot of tennis is always on the day. Doubles and mixed double seedings are a bit strange, it is rare the top seeds win the tournament.”

Joe Salisbury’s brilliant Wimbledon story also continues as he moved into the semi-finals of the men’s doubles with partner Frederik Nielsen.

The 26-year-old Londoner, playing in his first grand slam in the men’s draw, and the Dane saw off Ben McLachlan and Jan-Lennard Struff 7-6 (8/6) 4-6 7-6 (7/2) 7-6 (7/4).

The pair have had success in the build-up to the tournament, winning Challenger-level events in Loughborough and Nottingham and will now face Jack Sock and Mike Bryans.

Dom Inglot is also in the men’s semi-finals after a four-set win with Franko Skugor.

The English-Croatian pairing might not be so friendly in 24 hours, but they triumphed 6-3 6-7 (2/7) 7-6 (7/1) 6-4 against Haase and Robert Lindstedt on Court One.

Jamie Murray’s quest for a first men’s doubles title at Wimbledon goes on after he and Bruno Soares were knocked out.

Playing late in the day on Centre Court, Murray and Soares, who have won the US Open and Australian Open together, were two sets to one up against Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus but ended up losing 6-7 (5/7) 7-6 (7/5) 5-7 7-6 (7/4) 6-4.

There will be no repeat of Heather Watson’s 2016 mixed doubles win with Henri Kontinen as they lost in straight sets to Ivan Dodig and Latisha Chan, going down 6-2 7-6 (7/4).