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SPORTS Wednesday 3 July 2019
No. 1 Ash Barty wins on No. 1 Court at Wimbledon

By CHRIS LEHOURITES The combative and com- There were a lot more ral-
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) bustible Nick Kyrgios ad- lies."
— Ash Barty played her first vanced to the second Kyrgios will face two-time
match as the No. 1 player round despite winning only champion Rafael Nadal in
in the world on No. 1 Court five points in the fourth set. the next round. The Span-
at Wimbledon, and she The unseeded Australian iard beat Yuichi Sugita of
won. beat Jordan Thompson 7-6 Japan 6-3, 6-1, 6-3.
The top-seeded Austra- (4), 3-6, 7-6 (10), 0-6, 6-1. Eight-time champion Roger
lian, who followed her vic- Kyrgios took a medical Federer lost the opening
tory at the French Open timeout after the second set of his opening match on
by winning a grass-court set and a trainer came on Centre Court, but he quick-
warm-up tournament in court to examine his left ly recovered and beat
Birmingham, advanced to side. He then won the third Lloyd Harris of South Africa
the second round at the All set in a tiebreaker — a set 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2.
England Club on Tuesday which took 1 hour, 16 min- Federer, who is seeded Australia's Ashleigh Barty reacts after beating China's Saisai
Zheng in their Women's singles match during day two of the
by winning her 13th straight utes to complete. second at the All England Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Tuesday, July 2,
match. She beat Zheng Sa- The fourth set, however, Club, reached the second 2019.
isai 6-4, 6-2. lasted only 18 minutes as round at Wimbledon for Associated Press
"It feels incredible," Barty Thompson won 24 points the 17th consecutive year.
said about playing at Wim- while Kyrgios took only five. However, fifth-seeded er top seeds out of the tour- Thiem, who has had much
bledon as the top-ranked "The medical timeout was Dominic Thiem, who lost to nament in the first round. more success on the slower
woman. "It's a little bit of a to loosen up my hamstring Nadal in the French Open No. 6 Alexander Zverev clay surface. "Just broke
bizarre feeling, to be hon- a little bit. It was a physical final, was eliminated after and No. 7 Stefanos Tsitsipas down a little bit after he
est. But I just try and go match." Kyrgios said. "Espe- losing to Sam Querrey 6-7 lost on Monday. converted his first break
about my business the ex- cially on the grass, it was (4), 7-6 (1), 6-3, 6-0. "I was mentally prepared chance, and that was it
act same way. a little bit slower this year. Thiem follows a pair of oth- for this kind of game," said basically."q
"This hallowed turf that we
do get to play on is sacred,
it's beautiful. And you have
to enjoy every minute."
Defending champion An-
gelique Kerber also ad-
vanced, beating Tatjana
Maria 6-4, 6-3 on Centre
Court.
"I was really nervous, to be
honest, because of course
to (go) out there as the de-
fending champion, it was
really special," Kerber said.
"Walking on the Centre
Court, playing there again,
I mean, a lot of emotions, a
lot of memories."
Both Barty and Kerber are
in the same quarter of
the women's draw, which
means they could meet in
the quarterfinals. Seven-
time champion Serena Wil-
liams is also in that same
quarter, and she also won,
beating Giulia Gatto-Mon-
ticone of Italy 6-2, 7-5.
Garbine Muguruza, the
2017 Wimbledon cham-
pion who was also placed
in that same tough quarter
of the draw, didn't make it
through her first match. And
neither did Maria Sharapo-
va, the champion in 2004.
Muguruza, seeded 26th,
lost to Brazilian qualifier Be-
atriz Haddad Maia 6-4, 6-4.
Sharapova, who served for
the match while leading 5-3
in the second, retired from
her match with a left wrist
injury while trailing Pauline
Parmentier of France 4-6,
7-6 (4), 5-0.