Marketa Vondrousova fell to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-4, 6-2 within the first spherical of Wimbledon on Tuesday. In doing so, Vondrousova turned the primary Wimbledon ladies’s defending champion to lose within the opening spherical since 1994. That 12 months noticed Steffi Graf fall by the hands of Lori McNeil after profitable Wimbledon in 1993.
Vondrousova gained the 2023 version of Wimbledon as she turned the primary unseeded lady to attain that feat on the All England Garden Tennis & Croquet Membership.
Vondrousova turns into solely the second lady to ever lose within the first spherical of Wimbledon the 12 months after profitable the Grand Slam match.
Whereas Vondrousova was unseeded in 2023, she entered this 12 months’s Wimbledon because the No. 6 seed. She had fallen throughout a match in Berlin final month, and that might’ve contributed to her straight-set loss. In reality, she double-faulted on three events within the very first recreation of her match towards Maneiro.
Vondrousova ended up with seven double-faults and 28 unforced errors on the day. In the meantime, Maneiro was collaborating in a Grand Slam match for simply the second time in her profession.
The 2023 Wimbledon triumph was the one Grand Slam title for Vondrousova in her profession to this point. She additionally was the runner-up on the French Open in 2019 and earned a silver medal on the Tokyo Olympics.
