Between the Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, seeded No. 28, and the French Varvara Gracheva, of Russian origin, there was no handshake for reasons that we know, but the heart was there nonetheless. The two young women indeed engaged in a huge arm wrestling match on Wednesday that the semi-finalist of the Australian Open won on the wire in the super tie break of the third set, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 [5]) in 2h35. She will face Croatian Donna Vekic in the third round.
Too bad for Gracheva, who defeated another Ukrainian (Lesia Tsurenko) in the first round and seemed set to repeat after winning the first set. She will rather regret the third set where she managed to achieve the only break of this decisive set at the best of times, at 4-4, to give herself the right to serve for the win of the match. In vain.
Yastremska then let go of all her shots to survive and finally win, like these two winning returns which allowed her to win the super tie break.
Other second round matches at Wimbledon (Grand Slam, All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, £50,000,000, results listed from newest to oldest):
- Iga Swiatek – Petra Martic : scheduled Thursday
- Katie Boulter – Harriet Dart: scheduled for Thursday
- Yafan Wang – Madison Keys: to play
- Marta Kostyuk – Daria Saville: to play
- Paula Badosa – Brenda Fruhvirtova: to play
- Daria Kasatkina – Yuriko Lily Miyazaki: To Play
- Xinyu Wang – Jessica Pegula: to play
- Jule Niemeier – Elina Svitolina: to play
- Ons Jabeur – Robin Montgomery: to play
- Elina Avanesyan – Liudmila Samsonova: to play
- Anna Kalinskaya – Marie Bouzkova: to play
- Caroline Wozniacki – Leylah Fernandez: to play
- Elena Rybakina – Laura Siegemund: to play
- Cristina Bucsa – Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: to play
- Barbora Krejcikova – Katie Volynets: to play
- Camila Osorio – Beatriz Haddad Maia: to play
- Danielle Collins – Dalma Galfi: to play
- Daria Snigur – Jelena Ostapenko: to play
- Caroline Garcia – Bernarda Pera: to play
- Yulia Putintseva – Katerina Sinyakova: to play
- Jasmine Paolini (N.7) – Greet Minnen : 7-6 [5]6-2
- Lulu Sun (Q) – Yulia Starodubtseva (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Donna Vekic – Erika Andreeva (LL) : 6-2, 6-3
- Lin Zhu – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (N.25) : 6-4, 6-3
- Emma Navarro (N.19) – Naomi Osaka (WC) : 6-4, 6-1
- Maria Sakkari (N.9) – Arantxa Rus : 7-5, 6-3
- Diana Shnaider – Sloane Stephens : 6-1, 6-1
- Emma Raducanu (WC) – Elise Mertens: 6-1, 6-2
- Bianca Andreescu – Linda Noskova (N.26): 6-3, 7-6 [5]
- Coco Gauff (No.2) – Anca Todoni (Q): 6-2, 6-1
- Sonay Kartal (Q) – Clara Burel : 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
2024-07-04 02:07:57
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