by In the first round in Wimbledon there was no shortage of drama, with a variety of big names and top seeds fell.
The reigning French Open Champion and World No2 Coco Gauff made a striking early exit from the competition and fell 7: 6: 6: 1 into the non -set Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska.
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The American never managed to get it beyond the quarter -finals in the competition and has to wait to bring their grascoodoo to bed. Her Wimbledon preparations were minimal because it was beaten in the first round of Wang Xinyu in Berlin.
Gauffs Landsmann and the third seed Jessica Pegula plunged into court no.
Pegula arrived in Wimbledon in a fine form and hit Iga Swiatek in the final of the bad Homburg Open three days ago, but she was flat everywhere against Elisabetta Cocciaretto.
Pegula did not have a single break point in the game and only hit five winners with 24 casual mistakes. Cocciaretto used this ragged display fully exploited when the World No116 achieved a 6-2 6: 3 victory in just 59 minutes.
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The couple soon followed the fifth seed Qinwen Zheng after the starting door, which for the third time in a row fell at the first hurdle in Wimbledon.
Zheng defeated Emma Raducanu at Queen’s last month, but fought here when the double specialist Katerina Siniakova hit 7: 5 4-6-1 here.
Pack sent: Alexander Zverev (Getty Images)
In the men’s draw, the first day saw five mammals with two in the top ten, and the chaos continued on Tuesday.
The Italian Lorenzo Musetti, a semi -finalist in All England Club last year and falls in the first round.
The seventh seed accepted the qualifying Nikoloz Basilashvili and was beaten 6: 2 4: 6 7: 5 6: 1 in his first game since he retired from his French Open semi-final against Carlos Alcaraz.
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An even bigger shock came later a day when Alexander Zverev was sent to pack.
The third seed picked up his match again after he was finished in a set last night in the late evening, and had to win a fourth set-tie break to force a decision, but it was beaten by Arthur Rindertknech. The Frenchman fought his way to a 7-6 6-7 6-7 6-4 victory.
On Monday, Daniil Medwedev, the US Open Champion 2021 and the former World NO1, was beaten in court no. 2 by the French Benjamin Bonzi.
Holger Rune, the eighth seed, also leaned out when he was caught in a marathon-five-sate against the great qualification game Nicolas Jarry, who came back in a breathtaking way from two sets, to win 4-6 4-5 6-3 6: 4 on Court No3.
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The 24th seed and the two -time grand finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas had to admit a defeat against the unannounced French player Valentin Royer, which his game asked 6: 3 6: 2 on Court 12.
On the first day, the British made a victory against the debut for Wildcard Oliver Tarvet, Leandro Riedi, the Swiss player, who was only the World No117 last year.
Arthur Fny provided a minor exhibition against the 20th seed Alexei Popyrin to dismiss the Australian at the first hurdle in court 15 before his compatriot Billy Harris defeated his higher opponent Dusan Lajovic, who has ten top 10 victories.
Fuming: Daniil Medwedev (Getty Images)
On Tuesday, Alexander Budik, the recently crowned champion in Halle, was defeated in five sets by Spaniard Jaume Munar. Kazakhstan’s Bukik was seen as a dangerous player who may have wrote the British NO4 -seed Jack Draper trouble who was in line in the third round.
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The 2023 Eastbourne champion Francisco Cerundolo, the 16th Seed, was beaten in four sets of Nuno Borges.
On Monday, Sonay Kartal started the British killing spree early on the day by the former French Open Champion Jelena Ostapenko, the 20th Seed, on the farm no. 2 and profound 7-5 2-6 6: 2 impaired under sticky conditions.
Viktoriya Tomova was the surprising winner against the two-time Wimbledon finalist Ons Jabeur, whose injury problems have devastated their last few years.
The Grass Court major is classified as the most respected Grand Slam of tennis and dreams of each player to win as a child, as the elite of sport in the southwest of London comes together to try to get the coveted men’s trophy and the women’s plate.
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The championships have the story to achieve some breathtaking results.
Rafael Nadal, the two -time champion, was upset by Lukas Rosol, the World No100 in the second round in 2012 and then from the World No. 135 in his start of 2013, with the Belgian handed over a first defeat to the Spaniard in the first round at a Grand Slam.
In the same year, Sergiy Stakhovsky produced a master class from Serve-and-Volley to defeat the defending champion Roger Federer. In 2014 and 2015, Nick Kyrgios and Dustin Brown played out of their skin to throw Nadal out in the fourth round and in the second round.
At the end of the women, Serena Williams was at the end of two disorders when it was beaten by Sabine Lisicki and Alize Cornet in 2013 and 2014.
Perhaps the biggest shock in the history of Wimbledon came in 1994 when Lori McNeil became the first player in the Open era to defeated a defending champion in the opening round when she defeated the great Steffi Graf in straight sets. At that time, the German won three consecutive titles in the All England Club.
