Wimbledon 2018: Caroline Wozniacki crushes in the second round

WIMBLEDON, England – Caroline Wozniacki made another premature exit from Wimbledon, losing 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 to Ekaterina Makarova in the second round on Wednesday.

Wozniacki, reigning champion of the Australian Open She has never pbaded the All England Club Round of 32, and it is the fourth time in seven years that She lost in the first or second round.

The No. 2 seed Wozniacki saved four match points at 5 -3 in the final set before going back to level the match. But it was broken again in the last match.

She is the fifth of the first eight seeded women to lose before the third round.

Serena Williams, seven-time champion here, is No. 25 She lost 6-1, 6-4 against Viktoriya Tomova.

Williams lost only five out of 32 points in her first serve while she was taking just over an hour to triumph against her 135th-ranked opponent

She will then play Tatjana Maria or Kristina Mladenovic. Williams remains on a collision course with Madison Keys, 10th seed, a possible opponent in the fourth round. Keys dispatched Luksika Kumkhum of Thailand, 6-4, 6-3, and will have to face qualifier Evgeniya Rodina in the third round.

Venus Williams, five-time Wimbledon champion, once again dropped the opening game, and once again dominated the rest of the way to win.

The ninth-seeded Williams, 38, the oldest of the draw, came back to beat the 141st qualifier Alexandra Dulgheru of Romania, 4-6, 6-0, 6 -1, to reach the third round at Wimbledon

Williams was broken in the first game and did not recover in the opening game, in which she made 12 unforced errors, twice more than Dulgheru.

But Williams, the runner-up at Wimbledon a year ago, then won seven straight games.

In the first round, she began by giving up a tiebreaker against 58th Johanna Larsson before taking 12 of the last 15 games. Williams will play the No. 20 seed Kiki Bertens in the third round

Karolina Pliskova, seventh seed, dominated Victoria Azarenka, 6-3, 6-3, at a reunion of the former players # 1 Central Court. Pliskova did not face a break point and reached the third round of Wimbledon for the first time.

Pliskova to face the 29th seed Mihaela Buzarnescu, after the Romanian defeated the British wild card Katie Swan 6-0, 6

Lucas Pouille became the last seeded player to leave the men's table after a 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (8), 3-6, 6-2 defeat to Austrian Dennis Novak.

The Apulian seed saved two match points in the tie break in the third set before forcing a decisive, but Novak has regrouped to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time. Novak beat Peter Polansky on Monday to record the first Grand Slam victory of his career.

Novak will face Milos Raonic, 13th seed, who hit 34 aces while he defeated John Millman of Australia, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 7 -6 (4).

Raonic reached the third round for a sixth consecutive year, having lost to eventual champion Roger Federer i

Roger Federer, seeded number one, won 35 consecutive points in his own service, defeating Lukas Lacko of Slovakia 6-4, 6-4, 6-1.

Federer did not drop A point on his service throughout the second set and kept that series until he was 30-0 at 4-1 in the third, when Lacko sent a winning setback on the line.

In total, Federer, an eight-time Wimbledon champion, lost just nine of 61 points in his serve and defeated Lacko five times, including with a forehand winner to close the game.