WIMBLEDON, England — Marketa Vondrousova grew to become the primary defending girls’s champion at Wimbledon to lose within the first spherical the following yr since 1994, eradicated 6-4, 6-2 by Jessica Bouzas Maneiro at Centre Court docket on Tuesday.
Vondrousova was a shock title winner on the All England Membership 12 months in the past, the primary unseeded girl to say the trophy on the grass-court Grand Slam match.
Now she enters the books in one other — and fewer fascinating — historic method. The one different time within the sport’s Open period, which dates to 1968, {that a} girl went from a championship at Wimbledon to an instantaneous exit a yr later was when Steffi Graf was defeated by Lori McNeil 30 years in the past.
Vondrousova was seeded No. 6 this time, however the left-hander, who additionally was the runner-up on the 2019 French Open and a silver medalist on the Tokyo Olympics three years in the past, was by no means at her greatest Tuesday. She appeared to nonetheless be struggling after-effects from a fall throughout a tune-up match on grass in Berlin final month that harm her hip.
The day went a lot smoother for another girls’s prime seeds. World No. 1 Iga Swiatek, fourth-seeded Elena Rybakina and No. 5 seed Jessica Pegula all gained in straight units.
A five-time Grand Slam winner, Swiatek continues to be looking for her first journey to the Wimbledon semifinals, however opened her fortnight with a 6-3, 6-4 win over American Sofia Kenin.
Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, put away Elena-Gabriela Ruse 6-3, 6-1. Pegula superior with a 6-2, 6-0 win over fellow American Ashlyn Krueger.
No. 10 seed Ons Jabeur, a runner-up at every of the previous two Wimbledon tournaments, additionally notched a straight-sets win with a 6-3, 6-1 outcome over Moyuka Uchijima.
No. 13 Jelena Ostapenko, No. 15 Liudmila Samsonova, No. 17 Anna Kalinskaya, No. 23 Caroline Garcia, No. 27 Katerina Siniakova, No. 30 Leylah Fernandez and No. 32 Katie Boulter, had been additionally seeded winners on Tuesday.
Info from The Related Press was used on this report.
