Out of the 4 grand slams, Wimbledon has been Iga Swiatek’s greatest nemesis as she has but to achieve the semifinal spherical at SW19. The 5-time grand slam champion will fall quick once more in 2024 after a 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 collapse to Yulia Putintseva on Saturday.
It appeared to be getting in her favor because the world primary seemed in management after taking the primary set. However issues started to spiral uncontrolled at 1-1 within the second because the Pole proceeded to drop the subsequent 9 video games. Swiatek didn’t maintain serve once more till the 5th recreation of the third set and appeared to haven’t any reply for Putintseva.
“It feels actually, actually nice,” mentioned Putintseva. “I used to be feeling it on the court docket and that’s the reason I used to be like hearth. I used to be making an attempt to entertain you increasingly with my photographs.”
Yulia Putintseva – Photographer: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Photos
The Kazakh will transfer on to face Jeļena Ostapenko within the spherical of 16.
It’s again to the drafting board for Swiatek on grass as she continues to battle on the floor. After her title at Roland Garros, she selected to skip the grass-court warmup season earlier than Wimbledon which in hindsight now seems to be a questionable choice.
The loss ended a 21-straight match win streak that harkened again to 2022 when Swiatek fell to Alize Cornet within the third spherical of Wimbledon, ending her 37 straight wins and 6 straight titles.
She is going to now flip her consideration to the US Open the place she took residence the title in 2022.
