No one in female tennis was better than the gound of coconut in early June.
Standing on a clay court in Paris, Gound lifted a silver trophy after winning the France Open, the second important 21 -year -old race and the first time an American had won him from Serena Williams in 2015.
However, only three weeks later, chasing his second important title of the season, Gound did not even leave his inaugural match on the Wimbledon courts. It was an impressive result: one made even more surprising because he was not an atypical.
In total, 23 players sown between men and women were beaten during the first round of Wimbledon, the greatest amount since the current planting format began in 2001. In addition to the donation, who entered with the second highest sowing, the female raffle saw Jessica Pegula Pugula losing in third sow. Their losses marked the first time since 1968, a turning point in the history of sport when professionals began to compete along with fans in the main tournaments, which two of the first three seeds of women had been knocked out during the first round of a Grand Slam tournament.
“That is why tennis is the best reality show of the Earth,” said former Us Andy Roddick Open champion in his podcast on Tuesday. “There is no script.”
Thirteen sown male players lost in the first round, drawing a record in Grand Slams, the four most prestigious sport tournaments. Carlos Alcaraz, the 22 -year -old Spanish superstar who entered Wimbledon as twice defender champion, but needed the five full sets to survive his first game, recited that statistic one day after advancing in the second round.
“It’s a bit shocking,” Alcaraz said. “Everything can happen in tennis, even in the first round.”
Like Alcaraz, another previous champion, seven times winner Novak Djokovic, is still alive in the male singles group. But its competition has been reduced. Among those to lose in the first round included Alexander Zverev, third planted, Lorenzo Musetti, and Daniil Medvedev, a former number 1 player and champion of the United States Open.
When asked about the capture chain, Zverev did not see a passage line that connected his match with the losses of Musetti, Medvedev and others.
“I don’t think tennis is the problem at this time for me,” Zverev said after losing to an opponent who had only 8-17 this season. “It’s more that I have to find within me at this time.”
However, Roddick, who described the scale of discomfort as “butcher shop”, and the donation left the opening rounds with the theories of why the Wimbledon raffle had been so full of discomfort of discomfort that they focused on style and time.
“I would say that the fast change,” Gounds said after his first round out. “I think most of the seeds are deepening Roland Garros, and then you spend a long clay season and then you have to come and adapt to the grass.”
In the annual tennis calendar, the number of tournaments played on the grass are atypical. That leaves relatively little time to feel comfortable to play on the surface, where the ball bounces lower and moves more slowly, before Wimbledon arrives. However, how to prepare better for Wimbledon opens another wrinkle for players who must decide whether to play the previous week in other adjustment tournaments on the grass but the risk of fatigue or if to rest.
Only 12 days after winning on the Roland Garros clay court in Paris, Gound played in herb in Germany and lost. After his defeat, he asked if he would play the same tournament again due to the rapid change.
“It is something complicated and it seems that Carlos and Novak are the ones who discover it and even (Alcaraz) had a hard first round game,” Gonff said. “I really think that this change, I think, this blow of all of them is … the most likely to have the inconvenience only for how fast the change of clay is.”
Although Gound’s style is not particularly suitable for success in the grass, Roddick said in his podcast that the loss of pegula was “more shocking” because it is. The rapid spin out of Wimbledon occurred only three days after having won another tournament on the grass court in Germany that was seen as a heating for Wimbledon.
“This is what happens when you actually play tournaments outside the monosureza where everything is the same,” Roddick said. “… you allow different styles … This is what we get. We do not get a six -week leadership in which we get a set of (tournaments) Monte Carlo data through Geneva that matters in the predictions and know what is happening.
“I would say that there are fewer people who know what they are doing on the grass, like really In fact Know what they are doing, than on any other surface. “
