Madison Keys has become the last seed player to suffer early defeat in Wimbledon, while Naomi Osaka again came out in the third round.
Keys, seeded n ° 6, was removed in two sets with a 6-3, 6-3 defeat against Laura Siegemund on Friday, and Osaka fell into a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 defeat against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
The release of Keys leaves only one of the six best women in the edge before the end of the week 1: Aryna Sabalenka, n ° 1, who remained by claiming the last five games and by beating the champion of US Open Emma Raducanu later in the day. The male field has also seen its share of surprises, including a record of Wimbledon 13 seeds disappeared in the first round.
Keys has accumulated unlouring errors, 31 in total, and Wayward serves on a Borde 2 court. After an early trade in breaks, Siegemund went 4-2 on the Keys service with a drop shot before seeing the first set.
Siegemund picked up a pair of breaks in the second set. Keys saved three match points but could not prevent Siegemund from serving victory.
Ranked 104th in the world, Siegemund, 37, becomes the oldest woman in the open era (since 1968) at the time of her first appearance of the round from 16 to Wimbledon.
“I only play for myself. I no longer feel like I need to prove anything,” said Siegemund on the court. “It is important to remember the heart of the reason why you do this. … I play for myself, and I don’t feel the pressure in this way.”
His next opponent is Solana Sierra, who became the first lucky loser to reach the fourth round of female singles in Wimbledon in the open era by defeating Cristina Bucsa 7-5, 1-6, 6-1 of Spain. Sierra is the seventh loser for women to reach the fourth round in any major era, a list that includes Eva Lys at the Australian Open this year.
Osaka said that she was upset by her result because she “actually thought that I could play well, like, in general” and “do a deep race here”.
“I wanted to do better than before,” she said. “In addition, I felt like I was trying so hard.”
Osaka arrived at the All England Club this year after losing three of its last four games on site and with a 5-4 career record. His best performance was to go to the third round in 2017 and 2018; She missed the tournament in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
From 4-All in the third set, Pavlyuchenkova seized eight of the last 10 points of the match, holding in Love and then breaks in the last match with the help of a trio of lawyer errors not forced by Osaka.
Osaka fell at 0-6 in three sets in Wimbledon or the French Open.
“A majority of you encouraged Naomi, but it’s okay,” said Pavlyuchenkova, 34, at the crowd in court n ° 2. “I am mentally difficult, so that did not disturb me at all. The opposite: it gave me energy.”
Pavlyuchenkova will then face Sonay Kartal British, who retaliated by 4-1 in the first set to beat the Diane Parry 6-4, 6-2 qualification and reach the fourth round in Wimbledon for the first time.
Osaka, 27, is a former n ° 1 classified 50th and a quadruple Grand Slam champion, all on difficult terrain, winning the US Open and the Australian Open twice each. She said she was already waiting for the territory’s season impatiently.
Asked on what positive points she could withdraw from the poisoning part of the season, Osaka replied: “I’m just going to be a negative human being today. I’m really sorry. I have nothing positive to say about myself, on which I work.”
Pavlyuchenkova, which is ranked 53rd, was the 2021 finalist at the French Open, and Friday’s victory moved her to the fourth round at Wimbledon for the first time since she was a quarter -final nine years ago.
The former quarter-final of Wimbledon and 13th American seeded Amanda Anisimova defeated Dalma Galfi 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 and n ° 24 Elise Mertens beaten the n ° 14 Elina Svitolina 6-1, 7-6 (4).
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
