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Sabalenka races through against Udvardy
  + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Martyn Herman | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
[1/3] Tennis - Wimbledon - All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, Britain - July 4, 2023 Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka in action during her first round match against Hungary's Panna Udvardy REUTERS/Toby MelvilleLONDON, July 4 (Reuters) - Second seed Aryna Sabalenka made short work of Hungary's Panna Udvardy with a powerful 6-3 6-1 victory to reach the second round at a rainy Wimbledon on Tuesday. "I didn't realise how much I missed this place until today," Sabalenka, who reached the semi-finals in 2021, said on court. She lost only five points behind her heavy first serve and crunched 20 baseline winners against her 82nd-ranked opponent. The Minsk-born player showed some deft touches too, including a 'tweener' as she raced back to retrieve a lob. Sabalenka will face either Italian Camila Giorgi or Varvara Gracheva of France in round two.
Persons: Hungary's Panna Udvardy, Toby Melville LONDON, Aryna Sabalenka, Panna, Sabalenka, It's, Iga Swiatek, Elena Rybakina, Camila Giorgi, Varvara Gracheva, Martyn Herman, Ken Ferris Organizations: Lawn Tennis, Croquet Club, Hungary's, Wimbledon, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Belarus, Belarusian, Ukraine, tennis, revelled, Minsk, France
Retired Swiss great Federer ditched his racket for a classy cream blazer and a comfy seat as the eight-time Wimbledon champion graced the Royal Box and received possibly the longest ovation of his illustrious career. But Federer missed Spanish phenomenon Alcaraz, the 20-year-old who has taken the tennis world by storm. "I'm really happy with the level that I played, with the performance today," Alcaraz told reporters, although he was not so happy that Federer missed his match. RYBAKINA RECOVERSKazakhstan's Rybakina, the third seed, looked in danger of becoming the first Wimbledon women's defending champion to suffer a first-round exit since Steffi Graf in 1994 when American Rogers took the opening set. Admitting the watching Federer had made her nervous, she shrugged off that poor start to win in style.
Persons: Cameron Norrie, Czech Republic Tomas Machac, Dylan Martinez, Federer, Frenchman Chardy Jabeur, Sabalenka, Roger Federer, Alcaraz, Elena Rybakina, Shelby Rogers, Andy Murray, Ryan Peniston, Frenchman Jeremy Chardy, I'm, RYBAKINA, Kazakhstan's Rybakina, Wimbledon women's, Steffi Graf, Rogers, I've, Rybakina, Poland's Magdalena Frech, Novak Djokovic's, Panna Udvardy, Tomas Machac, Shrivathsa Sridhar, Ed Osmond, Ken Ferris Organizations: Lawn Tennis, Croquet Club, Czech Republic, Czech Republic Tomas Machac REUTERS, Court, Swiss, Wimbledon, Poland's, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Swiss, British, Moscow, Bengaluru
Azarenka feeling the love on Wimbledon return
  + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Christian Radnedge | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
As part of their return, players from the two nations are playing as neutrals and are not allowed to receive state funding or have sponsorship from Russian or Belarusian companies. Britain is a major ally of Ukraine and continues to provide military support but there was no animosity from the crowd towards former world number one Azarenka as she edged past China's Yuan Yue 6-4 5-7 6-4 in the first round. "There are of course some incidents sometimes happens (at other events), but I felt like I was very welcomed everywhere. The world number two begins her Wimbledon campaign against Hungary's Panna Udvardy on Tuesday. Reporting by Christian Radnedge, editing by Ed OsmondOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Victoria Azarenka, China’s Yue Yuan, Andrew Couldridge, Azarenka, Yuan Yue, Vika, Aryna Sabalenka, Hungary's Panna Udvardy, Christian Radnedge, Ed Osmond Organizations: Lawn Tennis, Croquet Club, Victoria, Wimbledon, ATP, WTA, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Belarus, China’s Yue Yuan REUTERS, Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Belarusian
Undercooked Rybakina targets successive Wimbledon titles
  + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Aadi Nair | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
The third seed opens her defence against 49th-ranked American Shelby Rogers and will be looking to match Serena Williams - who won her sixth and seventh Wimbledon titles in 2015 and 2016. Rybakina holds a 3-2 head-to-head advantage over Rogers, but with the defending champion having won both prior meetings on grass courts, she will take an edge into the encounter. An action-packed women's singles schedule on Tuesday also features Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka taking on Hungary's Panna Udvardy, while last year's losing finalist Ons Jabeur is up against Poland's Magdalena Frech. Greek eighth seed Maria Sakkari will face Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk, with two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic also in action. The confidence grew a lot," U.S. Open winner Alcaraz told reporters.
Persons: Elena Rybakina, Shelby Rogers, Serena Williams, Rybakina, It's, Rogers, Aryna Sabalenka, Panna Udvardy, Poland's Magdalena Frech, Maria Sakkari, Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk, Petra Kvitova, Carlos Alcaraz, Alcaraz, Novak, Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev, Briton Arthur Fery, Tsitsipas, Dominic Thiem, Andy Murray, Ryan Peniston, Aadi Nair, Toby Davis Organizations: Wimbledon, All England Club, Kazakh, U.S, Court, Thomson Locations: Eastbourne, Czech Republic, U.S, Belarusian, Bengaluru
Friday's draw at the All England Club pitched women's top seed Iga Swiatek against China's 33rd-ranked Zhu Lin, a potentially tricky first hurdle for the Pole. Murray could face fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in round two although first Tsitsipas must get passed former U.S. Open champion Dominic Thiem who has tumbled down the rankings. Russian third seed Daniil Medvedev, a potential semi-final opponent for Alcaraz, returns to Wimbledon with a first round against British wildcard Arthur Fery. The projected women's quarter-finals based on seedings would see Swiatek meet seventh seed Coco Gauff while third seed Rybakina could face Tunisia's Ons Jabeur. Djokovic, bidding for a record-extending 24th Grand Slam title, will face Cachin on Monday while Rybakina plays the traditional Tuesday Centre Court opener for women's defending champions.
Persons: Serbia's Novak Djokovic, Frances Tiafoe, John Sibley, Elena Rybakina, Shelby Rogers, Novak Djokovic, Pedro Cachin, Zhu Lin, Aryna Sabalenka, Hungarian Panna Udvardy, Venus Williams, Ukraine's Elina Svitolina, Andy Murray, Ryan Peniston, Murray, Stefanos, Dominic Thiem, Coco Gauff, Sofia Kenin, Djokovic, Roger Federer's, Spain's Carlos Alcaraz, Alcaraz, Frenchman Jeremy Chardy, Nick Kyrgios, David Goffin, Daniil Medvedev, Arthur Fery, Jessica Pegula, Holger Rune, Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Casper Ruud, Cachin, Rybakina, Martyn Herman, Christian Radnedge Organizations: U.S, John Sibley LONDON, Wimbledon, Argentina's, All England, China's, Queen's, Belgian, British, Denmark's, Tsitsipas, women's, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Belarusian, Ukraine, Hungarian, Russian
WTA roundup: Coco Gauff reaches Dubai semis
  + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/5] Tennis - WTA 1000 - Dubai Tennis Championships - Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - February 23, 2023 Coco Gauff of the U.S. celebrates winning her quarter final match against Madison Keys of the U.S. REUTERS/Satish KumarFebruary 24 - Fifth-seeded Coco Gauff won an all-American quarterfinal on Thursday at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, beating Madison Keys 6-2, 7-5 in the United Arab Emirates. Gauff saved the only break point she faced in the 81-minute match, and she converted four of her five break opportunities. The result moves Gauff into a semifinal matchup with top-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland, the reigning French Open champion. The other semifinal will feature third-seeded Jessica Pegula of the United States and Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic. In the last match of the night, fourth-seeded Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic downed Belgium's Ysaline Bonaventure 6-0, 7-5.
WTA roundup: Top seeds roll in Dubai
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
February 22 - The top two seeds in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships lost a combined three games while cruising to second-round wins on Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates. 1 Iga Swiatek of Poland, the reigning French Open and U.S. Open champion, routed Canada's Leylah Fernandez 6-1, 6-1, and No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, the reigning Australian Open champion, demolished the United States' Lauren Davis 6-0, 6-1. Third-seeded Jessica Pegula of the United States, who lost to Swiatek in the Doha final, got past Bulgaria's Viktoriya Tomova 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 in the second round at Dubai. Stephens, the 2017 U.S. Open champion, had lost her first-round matches at Auckland, New Zealand; Hobart, Australia; and the Australian Open to begin the year.
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