Wimbledon: Ostapenko crashes out in first round

Sonay Kartal moved into the second round of Wimbledon by winning against Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 20 seed, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Monday.

Kartal started strong and took the opening set after a close fight. Ostapenko fought back in the second set to level the score, however, the Brit crushed her hopes of a comeback in the third as she threatened a bagel by winning five games in a row.

The Latvian took one break back and avoided the embarrassment but couldn’t stop her opponent, losing in an hour, 58 minutes.

This was Ostapenko’s first opening-round defeat at Wimbledon after 2019. She reached the quarter-finals last year.

Kartal, ranked No 51, will face Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova next.

London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 53.500.000, most recent results first):

• Dayana Yastremska vs. Coco Gauff

• Victoria Azarenka vs. Anastasia Zakharova
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Ella Seidel
• Sofia Kenin vs. Taylor Townsend
• Maya Joint vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Francesca Jones
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Kaja Juvan
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Emiliana Arango
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Elena Rybakina
• Maria Sakkari vs. Anna Blinkova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Nina Stojanovic
• Clara Tauson vs. Heather Watson
• Veronika Erjavec vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Camila Osorio vs. Danielle Collins
• Catherine McNally vs. Jodie Burrage
• Iga Swiatek vs. Polina Kudermetova
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Jessica Pegula
• Katie Volynets vs. Tatjana Maria
• Alycia Parks vs. Belinda Bencic
• Magda Linette vs. Elsa Jacquemot
• Priscilla Hon vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Suzan Lamens vs. Iva Jovic
• Zeynep Sonmez vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Karolina Muchova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Petra Kvitova vs. Emma Navarro
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Lin Zhu
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Arantxa Rus
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Alexandra Eala
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Magdalena Frech
• Hailey Baptiste vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Jil Teichmann vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Mayar Sherif
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Naomi Osaka vs. Talia Gibson
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Mika Stojsavljevic
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Elise Mertens vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. McCartney Kessler
• Emma Raducanu vs. Mingge Xu
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Paula Badosa vs. Katie Boulter
• Harriet Dart vs. Dalma Galfi
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Anastasija Sevastova
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Hannah Klugman
• Lulu Sun vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Yanina Wickmayer vs. Renata Zarazua
• Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Aoi Ito
• Ann Li vs. Viktorija Golubic
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Madison Keys
• Diana Shnaider vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Olga Danilovic vs. Shuai Zhang
• Greet Minnen vs. Olivia Gadecki
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Rebecca Sramkova
• Peyton Stearns vs. Laura Siegemund
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Carson Branstine
• Bernarda Pera vs. Linda Noskova: monday
• Cristina Bucsa beat Anca Todoni: 6-4, 6-4
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Ons Jabeur: 7-6 (5), 2-0 ret.
• Diane Parry vs. Petra Martic: monday
• Eva Lys vs. Yue Yuan: monday
• Donna Vekic (22) beat Kimberly Birrell: 6-0, 6-4
• Elina Svitolina (14) beat Anna Bondar: 6-3, 6-1