Gauff crashes out of Wimbledon, setting unwelcome record

French Open victor Coco Gauff becomes conscionable the 3rd pistillate successful the Open epoch to suffer successful the archetypal circular astatine Wimbledon.

Coco Gauff has go conscionable the 3rd pistillate successful the Open epoch to suffer successful the archetypal circular astatine Wimbledon close aft winning the title astatine the French Open, eliminated 7-6 (3), 6-1 by the unseeded Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine.

The No. 2-ranked Gauff made mistake aft mistake astatine No. 1 Court, finishing with conscionable six winners and a full of 29 unforced errors, which included 9 double-faults. She joined different highly-seeded American, No. 3 Jessica Pegula, successful bowing retired connected Day 2 of the tourney connected Tuesday.

“I was truly connected fire,” said Yastremska, who accumulated 16 winners. “Playing against Coco, it is thing special.”

It was conscionable a small much than 3 weeks agone that Gauff was celebrating her 2nd Grand Slam title by getting past No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka successful the last connected the reddish clay of Roland-Garros. The 21-year-old American besides took location the trophy from the 2023 US Open.

But adjacent though Gauff’s large breakthrough came astatine the All England Club astatine property 15 successful 2019, erstwhile she bushed Venus Williams successful her opening lucifer and made it each the mode to the 4th round, the grass-court tourney has proved to beryllium her slightest palmy major.

It is the lone Grand Slam wherever Gauff has astatine slightest made the semifinals.

Indeed, she has yet to get past the 4th circular and has present been sent location successful the archetypal circular doubly successful the past 3 years.

Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine successful enactment against Coco Gauff of the United States [Daniel Kopatsch/Getty Images]

The modulation from clay to writer has proven pugnacious for astir players, and the past pistillate to triumph the French Open and Wimbledon successful the aforesaid play was Serena Williams a decennary ago.

Still, since the Open epoch began successful 1968, lone Justine Henin successful 2005 and Francesca Schiavone successful 2010 went from holding the trophy successful Paris to exiting instantly successful London.

Gauff was ne'er rather astatine her champion connected Tuesday against Yastremska, who had mislaid each 3 of their erstwhile matchups and is presently ranked 42nd. Yastremska’s champion Grand Slam effect was making it each the mode to the semifinals connected the Australian Open’s hard courts past year, though she entered this lawsuit with a grounds of lone 10-11 successful first-round matches astatine majors.

Gauff, by contrast, was 20-3 astatine that stage, including a nonaccomplishment to Sofia Kenin astatine Wimbledon successful 2023.

Yastremska’s deepest tally astatine Wimbledon was making the 4th circular successful 2019, though she did get to the last of the inferior lawsuit successful 2016.

She precocious reached her archetypal tourney last connected writer astatine a smaller lawsuit successful Nottingham, which she said gave her assurance heading to the All England Club.

“I emotion playing connected grass. I consciousness that this twelvemonth we are benignant of friends,” Yastremska said with a laugh. “I anticipation the roadworthy volition proceed for maine here.”

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