Serena stopped by battling Bartoli (UK only)
Serena and Venus Williams both suffered shock fourth round exits on a dramatic afternoon at Wimbledon.
Serena saw the defence of her title come to an end with a 6-3 7-6 (8-6) defeat by Marion Bartoli of France.
The 13-time Grand Slam champions will now drop to about 175th in the world as Bartoli goes on to play Sabine Lisicki.
Venus went down 6-2 6-3 to Tsvetana Pironkova, who beat her by the same scoreline in the 2010 quarter-finals and will next face Petra Kvitova.
The Williams sisters had won nine out of the last 11 Wimbledon singles titles but their defeats mean this is the first time in the Open Era that all of the quarter-finalists have come from Europe.
Serena, who recently returned from a year out with injury and illness, becomes just the fourth women's defending champion in the Open Era to fall before the last eight.
"I obviously would have loved to do better but considering the condition I was in, considering a lot of things, I really feel I did well," said the 29-year-old.
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