The 25-year-old set up match point in a five-set thriller against Alexander Bublik with a gravity-defying lunge to somehow return a backhand piledriver by his mercurial opponent.
One point later it was all over as Rublev reached the quarter-final of a Grand Slam for the eighth time.
"I don't know if I will ever feel this feeling.
"All my life I didn't know how to dive.
Then today was this one, I don't know, one-leg dive, something.
Persons:
Andrey Rublev, Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik REUTERS, Dylan Martinez, Andrey Rublev's, Alexander Bublik, Bublik, Rublev, David Goffin, Boris Becker, David ) Goffin, Martyn Herman, Ken Ferris
Organizations:
Lawn Tennis, Croquet Club, Dylan Martinez LONDON, Wimbledon, Court, Thomson
Locations:
London, Britain