2012 Wimbledon - Baker and Fish, Last Two American Men, Are Ousted Going into the fourth round, Mardy Fish said he thought he could win the Wimbledon men's singles title. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat him in four sets. WIMBLEDON, England - Two of Wimbledon's most inspiring stories did not end under the lights and the Centre Court roof on Tuesday. They ended amid the raindrops and the delays and in front of quite a few empty seats on adjacent courts at the southern end of the grounds. The first to fall was Brian Baker, the American qualifier who was beaten, 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-3, by Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany on Court 12. One more rain delay later, the last American man in the singles, Mardy Fish, was beaten, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-4, by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in a match that started Monday on Court 2. It remains difficult to believe that Baker or Fish reached the fourth round. A year ago, Baker, 27, had no ranking and was about to play (and win) a low-level satellite event in Pittsburgh as he began his remarkable comeback from a series of major operations. In May, while Fish's rivals prepared for the French Open, he was under general anesthesia in a Los Angeles hospital with a catheter inserted into his heart as doctors tried to resolve concerns about an accelerated heartbeat. Fish, the No. 10 seed, seemed the more downbeat of the two at missing the chance to extend his visit to the All England Club. "I went to bed last night and thought I could maybe win the tournament the way I was playing," he said. But his Monday lead soon evaporated on the latest cool and soggy afternoon at Wimbledon. With Rafael Nadal out of the bottom half of the draw, Tsonga, a swashbuckling Frenchman, will be the one who advances to an unlikely quarterfinal with Kohlschreiber, the No. 27 seed. The other quarterfinal in that half will match Andy Murray of Britain against David Ferrer of Spain. In the top half, the defending champion, Novak Djokovic, will face Florian Mayer, and Roger Federer will try to allay concerns about his latest back spasms and extend his career record against Mikhail Youzhny to 14-0. Djokovic, Federer and Youzhny were safe and dry in the clubhouse (or their rented Wimbledon housing) on Tuesday after winning their Monday matches. Mayer, the 31st seed from Germany with an unconventional game full of slice and guile, joined them by finishing off Richard Gasquet of France in four sets. Murray then finished off Marin Cilic of Croatia, 7-5, 6-2, 6-3. Though Nadal is back in Spain after his second-round defeat, four of the top five seeds remain. Murray's road still looks the most arduous as he continues to chase the first singles title here for a British man since 1936. He will have to get past Ferrer, the No. 7 seed, and then probably Tsonga, who thrives on grass and reached the semifinals here last year. Only then would Murray get to play in Sunday's final, presumably against the No. 1 seed Djokovic or Federer, a six-time champion. Ferrer, 30, a Spaniard who is into his first Wimbledon quarterfinal, has been particularly impressive, dropping just one set so far - to the three-time Wimbledon finalist Andy Roddick and defeating Juan Martín del Potro, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3, under the closed Centre Court roof on Tuesday. Whoever wins the title will be a European. "It's a European-dominated sport right now for sure," Fish said.