Three of the top five seeds in the Wimbledon Ladies Singles Draw – Coco Goff, Jessica Pegula and Kinwen Zheng of China – bowed out in a surprising Tuesday in London.
Italian Elisbetta Cokiarato made a victorious comeback on the Wimbledon Stage, out of 6-2, 6-3 in just 58 minutes. Soon after, Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic put the fifth seeded Zheng ahead 7-5, 4-6, 6-1.
To capate the upset-laden day, the Dayana Yastrimca of Ukraine took the number 2 seed and the French Open Champion Goff, 7-6 (3), 6–1.
“I like to play on the grass,” Yashemska said, which opened on the surface in the final of the last month’s Nottingham. “I think this year we are a kind of friend. I hope the road will continue for me.”
Gauf struggled overnight, finishing only six winners and 29 with unexpected errors. Yastremska broke the service of Gauf four times in six occasions and capitalized on Goff’s service. Goff walked a double fault nine times, and when he was forced to serve his second service, he won less than half of the points (14 out of 32).
Meanwhile, Cocciaretto had to sit out of the head in 2024 due to the disease. She has played well in grass courts in the last one year, reached the semi-finals in Birmingham last year and in ‘S-Hartogenbosh’ last month.
“I was very pumped to play Wimbledon this year,” Cociaretto said in his on-court interview. “I couldn’t wait until the match started, I was practicing very hard.”
The 24-year-old Koksiarato has won a title on the WTA tour and this season is a record of 14–17 and number 116 world rankings. By defeating Pegula, he won his second win over the top 10 rival, defeating Petra Quitova at the French Open in 2023.
Pegula came in a match on a high note, which defeated Poland’s IGA Swetek in the last weekend to win the Grass-Rog title in Bad Hombg. But Cocciaretto set the match and hit 17 winners compared to five for Pegula, who broke into service four times, but scored only eight points on his opponent’s service.
“He played absolutely incredible tennis,” said Pegula. “Do I think I have played the best match ever? No, but I definitely don’t think I was playing bad. It was not that I was playing that bad. She was just playing her shots and was going for it, was serving big, serving high percentage, serving the big second, reorganizing the ball.
“I feel like she plays a kind of madness. Hatters him. Kudos to play him at a high level that I can’t match it today.”
In the second round, Cocciaretto will withstand another American, Katie Volynets. He defeated Tatzana Maria of Germany 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6–1. Yastremska will face the Russian qualifier Anastasia Zakharova, who defeated Victoria Azranka of Belarus 6-2, 2-6, 6–1.
Excess of falling top seeds can open a way for Russia’s No. 7 Seam Mirra Andreva, who defeated Egyptian Mayor Sheriff 6-3, 6-3, or eighth seeded Swiyatech, 7-5, 6–1 winners on Russian Polina Kudematova.
Number 10 Seed Emma Navaro defeated the two-time Wimbledon Champion Champion Petra Quitova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6–1. This was Quitova’s last Wimbledon match, as it recently announced that it would retire after the US Open.
“This place has the best memories that I can wish,” Quitova said in an on-court interview. “I never dreamed of winning Wimbledon and I won it twice. It’s something very special. I will definitely remember Wimbledon,”
Xinyu Wang of China harassed the 15th seed Karolina Muchova 7-5, 6-2. And the Canadian Lucky Victoria MBoko-Russia’s Anastasia Potapova retreated in the field-polish 25th seed Magdelena Freach 6-3, 6-2.
Other seeded players included Kazakhstan’s number 11 Elena Rybikina on Tuesday, number 16 Daria Kasakina of Australia, No. 17 Barbora Crazikova of Czech Republic, number 18 Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia’s No. 19 Liyudmila Samonova, number 23 CEFI CEFININ and Number 28 Sofia’s number 23.
Veronica Erzeveak of Slovenia defeated Ukraine’s number 26 Marta Costieuk in three sets. The French qualifier Elsa Jequmot did the same for Poland’s number 27 Magada Linet.
Americans Katy Mackelli, Halley Baptist, Danielle Collins and Caroline Dolehyde proceeded in the next round. Apart from this, Russian Anna Kalinskaya and Veronica Kudematova, Sujan Lammens of Netherlands, Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania, Zinep Sonmez of Turkey, Lucia Bronzetti of Italy, Maria Sakkari of Greece, Benak of Switzerland.
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