LONDON (AP) - As the rain at Wimbledon wreaks havoc with the schedule, and players start to complain, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic have found little reason to worry about the weather.
It helped that both got to play Monday on Centre Court, the only spot at the All England Club with a retractable roof.
And with back-to-back, straight-set victories, they moved closer to a semifinal showdown that would be a rematch of the final last year, when Murray beat Djokovic to become the first British man since 1936 to win Wimbledon.
"Sometimes the scheduling works in your favor. Sometimes the weather works in your favor," Murray said. "You just have to deal with it."
He reached the quarterfinals for the seventh consecutive year by dulling the dangerous serve of 20th-seeded Kevin Anderson and saving a set point in the tiebreaker of a 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (6) win. They played under a drizzle for about 15 minutes before the roof was closed early in the second set.
It stayed that way for the top-seeded Djokovic, and the 2011 champion beat No. 14 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga for the 11th consecutive time, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (5). Djokovic grimaced once in the final set while clutching the upper left arm he landed on in his prior match, but finished strongly and said afterward he felt fine.
"A lot of matches were canceled, but that's London, that's Wimbledon, with its very unpredictable weather," Djokovic said.
Murray, who hasn't dropped a set, said: "They should always try to play with the roof open, because it's an outdoor event."
Easy for him to say.
Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka was less than pleased his third-round match was put off from Saturday to Monday. He got through it quickly, defeating 45th-ranked Denis Istomin 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in less than 11/2 hours.
Fifth-seeded Wawrinka will be on No. 2 Court today - when, by the way, the forecast calls for a slight chance of rain - against No. 19 Feliciano Lopez.