Swiatek wins 36th match in a row in 1st round at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — From the purple clay of the French Open to the inexperienced grass of Wimbledon, the wins preserve coming for Iga Swiatek.

The highest-seeded Pole received her opening match on Centre Courtroom on Tuesday, beating Croatian qualifier Jana Fett 6-0, 6-3.

The victory was Swiatek’s thirty sixth in row and contains all seven matches she performed at this yr’s French Open in profitable her second title at Roland Garros. It’s the longest profitable streak on the ladies’s tour since 1997, when Martina Hingis received 37.

“It’s my first match on grass this season, so I knew it’s going to be difficult,” Swiatek mentioned on court docket. “I’m simply determining tips on how to play right here and attempting to implement all of the stuff that we had been working towards on.”

Even with seven-time champion Serena Williams within the draw on the All England Membership, Swiatek is the lady to beat. She received 5 tournaments earlier than heading to Paris in Could, incomes consecutive titles in Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart and Rome.

Swiatek, once more sporting a pin with the colours of Ukraine on her hat, began out like she left off in her final match on the French Open. However she went down 3-1 within the second set earlier than recovering.

“The second set, initially I misplaced my focus just a little bit and she or he used that fairly effectively,” Swiatek mentioned.

Barbora Krejcikova, who received the French Open in 2021 to separate Swiatek’s two titles there, additionally superior to the second spherical. The Thirteenth-seeded Czech defeated Maryna Zanevska of Belgium 7-6 (4), 6-3.

No. 4 Paula Badosa, No. 5 Maria Sakkari, No. 12 Jelena Ostapenko and No. 33 Shuai Zhang of China additionally superior.

Among the many seeded participant to lose was Olympic champion Belinda Bencic. The 14th-seeded Swiss participant misplaced to Qiang Wang of China 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.

Poland’s Iga Swiatek returns to Croatia’s Jana Fett in a primary spherical ladies’s singles match on day two of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Tuesday, June 28, 2022.

No. 18 Jil Teichmann of Switzerland, No. 20 Amanda Anisimova of america and No. 27 Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan additionally misplaced.

Within the males’s draw, No. 18 Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria retired from his match with an obvious damage. He was main Steve Johnson of america 6-4, 2-5 when he stopped.

No. 15 Reilly Opelka of america, No. 19 Alex De Minaur of Australia, No. 29 Jenson Brooksby of america and No. 31 Sebastian Baez of Argentina additionally received.

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