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Defending champion Novak Djokovic continued his pursuit of a seventh Wimbledon title as he reached the quarter-finals with a four-set win.
The top seed won on Centre Court for the fourth time in a row.
The crowd roared as he took the second set.
The 20-time major winner will face Jannik Sinner.
Italian 10th seed Sinner defeated Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz earlier in the day.
It's the third longest such streak in the Open era, and it's the 25th in a row for Serbia's Novak Djokovic, who will play in the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the 13th time.
He has won 25 consecutive times at Wimbledon, tying Pete Sampras for fourth place on the Open era's list of longest winning streaks.
It has been over five years since he lost to Denis Istomin at the Australian Open, the only other time he has lost to a lower ranked player.
The Dutch player was ranked outside of the world's top 200 men's players as recently as June before he upset the world number one at the Libema Open in's-Hertogenbosch.
The statistics did not offer much encouragement for the little-known 25-year-old, whose career has been stymied by disabling injuries, as he sought to make history by beating the men's top seed at a Grand Slam.
While he was unable to pull off an almighty upset, Van Rijthoven announced himself on one of the sport's grandest stages with heavy hitting and a determined desire to claim the second set.
The experienced Djokovic, who has now won 331 Slam matches, quickly recovered from his opponent's moment of glory and made just 19 unforced errors as he took a little over an hour to win the final two sets.
Having missed three break points of his own in losing the first set, Van Rijthoven gradually grew into his first outing on Wimbledon's famous stage and sent the crowd into raptures as he followed up a couple of devastating forehand winners with a smash to break the world number three in set
A double fault on his first set point threatened to cost him, but he took a fall as he chased down a shot on his second of four break points.
Successive ace ensured that the contest was level at the third opportunity.
As good as it was, that was the only thing that mattered. A double break in the third set gave him a five set point, which he converted to win the set.
The Serb kept his sights firmly locked on another Wimbledon triumph - which would take him level with Sampras and one behind Roger Federer's men'srecord of eight - as another two breaks of serve in the fourth completed the job.
In a match between two rising stars of the men's game, the 20-year-old Sinner produced an impressive all-round display to beat the 19-year-old Alcaraz.
On Sunday it was Sinner who shone more brightly, serving and returning superbly to win 6-1 and reach the quarter-finals.
Sinner's big serve gave him a solid foundation and some fierce returns from either flank put him in control against the tenacious Alcaraz, who saved two match points before turning around the third set tie-break.
At the start of the fourth set, he appeared to lose confidence, but he recovered his composure and was able to move 4-1 up.
Alcaraz did not give up and saved three more match points.
After more than four and a half hours on court, the 23rd seed Francis Tiafoe of the United States was beaten by the 13th seed David Goffin of Belgium.
The last eight will feature Britain's Cameron Norrie and Belgium's David Goffin.
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