Wimbledon 2011 Results: The Biggest Shockers and Upsets at Wimbledon

Every year at Wimbledon, there are shockers and upsets, unranked players coming out of nowhere to knock off top seeds.

Sometimes, looking back at it, they make sense.

Sometimes, you still can't fathom what just happened.

As both the men's and women's tournaments proceed closer to the finals, here is a look at the biggest shockers and upsets thus far in the prestigious Wimbledon at the All England Club.

Monday's competition produced three of the seven shockers on this list.

There are bound to be plenty more.

7. World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki Falls in Fourth Round

The only reason Caroline Wozniacki's loss is on this list is because she is still, technically, the No. 1 women's tennis player in the world.

But she's never won a major, and her fourth-round loss to No. 24 Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia on Monday in the fourth round at Wimbledon was only concurrent with what she's done in the past.

You keep wondering, maybe even hoping, that Wozniacki can silence her critics and that she is even somewhat of a dominant player in the women's game, but she continues to add more fuel to the fire.

She not only lost to Cibulkova, she faltered down the stretch, losing 1-6, 7-6, 7-5.

She had a 5-4 advantage in the third set, and never won a point after that.

Pretty soon these "upsets" won't be considered upsets any longer if Wozniacki doesn't raise her game.

6. Venus Williams Defeated by Own Personal Nightmare

Anytime a Williams sister loses at Wimbledon, it's got to be considered a shocker, considering the Williams sisters have won a combined nine Wimbledon titles.

And, indeed, losing to the No. 33 women's tennis player in the world in Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria is an upset when you're Venus Williams.

But a closer look at the matchup tells why I have this upset as No. 6 on my list.

Pironkova not only beat Williams in the 2006 Australian Open as the No. 94 player in the world, she beat Williams last year at the 2010 Wimbledon, and she's risen tremendously since 2006.

All the warning signs were there for Williams.

You still didn't expect to get ousted in the fourth round, but there was still some cause for concern going into the matchup.

5. Tomas Berdych Continues His Slide

Given the way the Wimbledon's sixth seed, Tomas Berdych, has played in 2011, you almost forget that he reached the finals last year at the All England Club, defeating Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic along the way.

He also loves the grass surface historically.

Which is why I expected him to at least bounce back a little bit at Wimbledon this year.

But he didn't.

He was ousted by American No. 10 seed Mardy Fish in straight sets in the fourth round, losing 7-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Fish claimed it was one of the best serving days of his life in the matchup, but, still, you expect Berdych to defeat Fish amongst all the commotion that American tennis just isn't what it used to be.

And so Berdych's slide continues.

4. Robin Soderling Loses to the Youngest Player at Wimbledon

Coming into the 2011 Wimbledon, Robin Soderling's seeding at No. 5 seemed fitting.

He wasn't Nadal or Djokovic or Federer or Murray, but he did appear to have the best chance of winning Wimbledon out of the rest of the pack.

Despite getting to the French Open finals in the last two years and reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon last year, Soderling's accomplishments have always been dampened by criticism that his mental game is off and he's not a consistent enough player.

When he lost to 18-year-old Australian Bernard Tomic in the third round at Wimbledon in straight sets, those criticisms came flooding back.

Said Soderling, via Yahoo! Sports:

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"It wasn't a great match. I didn't feel good on court at all and I wasn't moving well. I was misjudging a lot of balls and I didn't have the right timing. I felt weak, I felt a little bit dizzy. It was just not my day today."

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Bad day or not, he should have beaten the youngest player at Wimbledon.

3. Isner Beats Mahut in Straight Sets

When John Isner and Nicolas Mahut were drawn to play each other again after their 11-hour, five-minute masterpiece last season at Wimbledon, many people saw that as one of the biggest shockers at the All England Club.

I, for one, found the fact that Isner defeated Mahut in straight sets as the biggest shocker.

Last year's marathon destroyed records of duration, games played, and aces in a single match.

Isner's first-round, 7-6, 6-2, 7-6 winner against Mahut this year was 149 games and a full nine hours shorter than last time around.

Sure, it would have probably been more of a shocker if this time it went 11 hours again, but the fact that it was so short boggled my mind.

I was left wondering, "Wait? That's it? I just got cheated."

2. Sabine Lisicki's Resurgence

A lot was made of the nightmare of a last year the Williams sisters had, hampered by injuries.

But lost in all of this was the fact that Germany's Sabine Lisicki endured a horrendous stretch of her own this last year.

At Indian Wells in 2010, Lisicki sustained a left ankle injury that sidelined her for five months. After seven weeks on crutches, her calf muscles were shot and she had to reteach herself to walk.

Now, in 2011, she not only won the second WTA singles title of her career at the AEGON Classic, she just beat No. 9 Marion Bartoli on Tuesday, a day after Bartoli defeated Wimbledon champ Serena Williams.

Earlier this year, Lisicki led No. 3 Vera Zvonareva 5-4 in the third set at the French Open, but she collapsed mid-set with leg cramps and had to be carried off in a stretcher, clearly heartbroken.

In the second set of the quarterfinals against Bartoli Tuesday, Lisicki once again gave up a 5-4 advantage and lost the set. This time, however, she battled back in the third set, winning 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-1 and erasing her past demons.

Said Lisicki after the match, via ESPN:

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"I cannot explain how I feel at the moment. It was such a tough road. To stand on Centre Court at Wimbledon…I'm just so happy."

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You want a comeback story at Wimbledon this year?

Sabine Lisicki is your comeback story.

1. Serena Williams Ousted in Fourth Round

It didn't matter that Serena Williams had endured a nightmare of a stretch since her Wimbledon title last year.

Regardless of the fact that she stepped on broken glass and was relegated to a cast and crutches for months, that she had surgery, that she suffered a hematoma and a pulmonary embolism, this was Serena Williams, the most dominant player in women's tennis before her injury.

She's a four-time Wimbledon champ, and has 13 Grand Slam singles titles to her name.

Despite her lengthy lay-off, many experts tabbed Williams as the one to beat in this year's Wimbledon.

But her loss to No. 9 Marion Bartoli, 6-3, 7-6, in the fourth round at Wimbledon this year was an upset and a shocker.

Even Williams herself, who had reason to give herself a pat on the back given all she had been through, was disappointed because she truly believed she could repeat this year at the All England Club.

So did many of us, and her early exit at Wimbledon, combined with her sister Venus' on Monday, reverberated throughout the tournament.

Who wins Wimbledon now?