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LONDON – Caroline Wozniacki made another early exit from Wimbledon
The Australian Open champion lost 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 to Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, in a second round match after being disturbed by a swarm of flying insects in the second set.
Wozniacki never spent the knockout stage at Wimbledon, and it's the fourth time in seven years that she has lost in the first or second round.
Dane, seeded, saved four match points to 5-3 in the final set before going back to level the match. But it was broken again in the last game.
The organizers used bugs after Wozniacki complained to the chair referee of the insects
She is the fifth of the first eight women to lose before the third round. ] Roger Federer dominated his service to pbad Lukas Lacko in two sets in a second round match at Wimbledon
The fourth day of Wimbledon sees the return of the world's first male and female, plus defending champion Garbine Muguruza. and British hopefuls Kyle Edmund and Johanna Konta
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Serena Williams continued her return to Wimbledon with a thrilling 6-1, 6-4 victory over Viktoriya Tomova.
The time champion lost just five out of 32 points in her first serve since she put in a little over an hour to triumph against her ranked 135th ranked opponent.
Williams was unable to defend his Wimbledon title last year. Despite his weakly ranked Williams is ranked 25th this year
. The 36-year-old American faces Kristina Mladenovic of France, who beat Germany's Tatjana Maria 6-2 and 6-2. Mladenovic, 62nd, was only slowed down by a 30-minute rain delay as she headed for victory without facing a break point
Venus Williams, five-time Wimbledon champion , once again
The No. 9 seed, at age 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 third place.
Williams was broken in the first game and did not recover in the opening set, in which she made 12 unforced errors, twice as many as Dulgheru. Nine of them were stray strikers
But the American, second at Wimbledon a year ago, then won seven straight games.
In the first round, Williams began by giving up a tiebreaker against 58th-ranked Johanna Larsson before taking 12 of the last 15 games
Karolina Pliskova advanced to the third round for the first time with a win from 6-3, 6-3 against Victoria Azarenka.
Pliskova, seeded number seven, has not faced She has had a break at a meeting of the two former players at the Center Court.
It was the sixth time in seven appearances in the draw at Wimbledon that the US Open Vice Champion Pliskova In the second round, she had not managed to go any farther [19659002] Azarenka, two-time champion of the Australian Open, was vulnerable to her second serve, scoring only seven points out of 18.
Pliskova will be the 29th seed Mihaela Buzarnescu , after the defeat of the British wild car Katie Swan 6-0, 6-3
The third day was prematurely ended by rain
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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