Wimbledon: Ostapenko crashes out in first round
Sonay Kartal beat Jelena Ostapenko 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 on Monday. She’ll face Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova in the next round
Jelena Ostapenko | © Action Plus / Psnewz
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
