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Source: AFP 2018
WIMBLEDON-2018
London (United Kingdom). Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament. The total prize pool is 34,000,000 pounds. Short open, grbad. Women Single discharge. The fourth circle. Darya KASATKINA (Russia, 14) – Alison Van Whitwank (Belgium) – 6: 7 (6: 8), 6: 3, 6: 2.
Neither Darya Kasatkina nor Alison Van Whitwank have ever been to Wimbledon before the fourth circle and were not very "sown". In "crazy Monday", opening the second week of Wimbledon, when all the matches of the fourth round are played, the organizers sent the Russian and the Belgian 18th. And in vain: their game was worthy of one of the main arenas.
Predicting the winner was not so simple. On the one hand, Kasatkina is in the rankings above and recently won at Van Whitwank in Eastbourne. On the other hand, it is the Belgian who beat the current champion Garbinje Mugurus of the Battle of Wimbledon and obviously played in the courage. The fact that Kasatkina coach Phillip Dehas is a Belgian has spiced up the confrontation.
But the match went well. Both tennis players have shown tremendous variability, and the Russian woman has also shown that she is a fighter and goes to the end. Van Whitwank alternated powerful flat beats from the back line with verified shortcuts, and in
In the first set, the Belgian acted more aggressively twice forward, the Russian twice compared the score, and then herself took advantage of – 6: 5. But van Whitwank was saved when his opponent she was subjected to the party, and then she won [taira-break] At 6:05, Kasatkina did a setball, but sent the ball. And a little later, on the set-ball, the rival gave a double.
In the second game, the Belgian led with a 2: 1 break and had a match point to score 3: 1. This fact confused Van Whitwank. She started to make more mistakes and from the next 14 points, she took only two. Soon, Kasatkina was ahead – 4: 2. The Russian adapting to how to play the rival, herself began to go more often to the grid, the ground is tightened, and all it's turned out. She did not give a single "her" game in the second game. And in the third, the rival was not that
Slightly More than a month after the first quarterfinals of the Grand Slam tournaments, Kasatkin has reached this stage for the second time. Now at the main tournament of the year. Already Tuesday, she will play with one of the most experienced and dangerous tennis players from the rest of the grid – Wimbledon-2016 runner-up Angelik Kerber. The record of their personal meetings was 3:03, and the last one, held in the same Eastbourne a few weeks ago, ended in a dramatic break in equality
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Evgenia Rodina, 29, finished the best Grand Slam tournament of his career with a defeat of Serena Williams at the Central Court. For a Russian woman who never had enough stars from the sky, it was the seventh game of the tournament because while her American counterpart was defending her right to be "sown", she was making her way to qualification
] Williams, Jr. turned out to be historic. The fact is that never before in the Grand Slam tournaments, two mothers have played against each other. And as such, Eugene's starfight opponent will give his daughter Ane chances for five and a half years, while Serena's maternal experience does not have another year. By the way, preparing the match against the homeland, Williams missed the first steps of her Olympia, which she immediately informed the world on Twitter, adding that she was upset to tears.
But on the tennis court, Williams
MAKAROVA MISSING GEORGIES IN FOURREFINAL
Camila Georgie (Italy)) – Ekaterina MAKAROVA (Russia) – 6: 3, 6: 4.
Serena will not play with Ekaterina Makarova in the quarterfinals, as we would all like it, but with Camilla Georgie. The 26-year-old has done everything to enter the top eight of the Grand Slam tournament for the first time. She served better, played more actively, took the lead (9 out of 12 raids were successful) and did not expect gifts from her rival. Although in the first set, she did not look so confident and stable: she was fighting to give Makarova 12 minutes, then lost to zero under her. But from the 4: 3 account, the Italian won four games in a row – recorded the first set of badets and led the 2-0 in the second. And this early break with a more confident Camille game was enough to bring the meeting to victory – 6: 3, 6: 4.