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Iga Swiatek won the first set against Yulia Putintseva at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, but as quickly as she won that one, the reigning world number one lost the next two.
This match was a proper case of a win slipping away from someone’s hands in a matter of a few minutes because the Polish player looked very confident in the first set of that match.
She didn’t look as confident as the match was slipping away from her, and it happened very quickly, leaving the World No. 1 player very frustrated. It was a matchup she could have won, and who knows what might have happened in the next few rounds?
She might not have won the event but would have been in contention. And that’s why after the match, Swiatek lamented that she allowed Putintseva to get back into the match.
“I totally let her come back to the game in the second set. I shouldn’t have done that. I made some mistakes, as well. But for sure, she used her chance.”
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Swiatek seemed to have diagnosed what went wrong quickly, or so it seems. After the match, she spoke about fatigue, admitting that she didn’t rest properly after the exhausting clay season and Roland Garros. The Polish player skipped all three weeks of action and didn’t play a single grass event prior to the major at SW19.
“I feel like on grass I need little bit more of that energy to keep being patient and accept some mistakes. Like mentally, I didn’t really do that well on this tournament.”
“I need to recover better after clay court season, both physically and mentally. I know what I did wrong after Roland Garros. I didn’t really rest properly. I’m not going to make this mistake again.”
While still the best in the world, Swiatek always experiments with grass. She improves on it every year, but there is a lot more work to be done if she wants to lift a major in London.
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Gauff Ensured To Catch Up To Swiatek In World No. 1 Chase Despite Wimbledon Disappointment
by Nurein Ahmed
Coco Gauff has truncated Iga Swiatek’s lead at the top of the WTA rankings at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships.
That is because Swiatek suffered a shock defeat to unseeded Yulia Putintseva in the third round. Despite the Pole’s difficulties on grass, the Kazkahstani’s come-from-behind victory is the upset of the women’s tournament.
Having won each of her first two matches in straight sets, Swiatek looked on course to secure a spot in the second week of Wimbledon when she led Putintseva 6-3 after the first set.
But the World No. 35, who is having the best season of her career, highlighted by winning a maiden grass-court title in Birmingham two weeks ago, turned the match around with her swashbuckling style of aggressive shotmaking, improvised slices, and sumptuous drop shots.
Swiatek had no answer to what Putintseva threw at her. And for once, the woman who is synonymous with her fiery temperament on the court let her racket do all the talking.
Putintseva ended the top seed’s 21-match win streak, which dates back to the Stuttgart Open when compatriot Elena Rybakina last defeated her en route to the title.
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The defeat prevents Swiatek from advancing into the second week of Wimbledon for the third time. She was a quarterfinalist last year, which means she will lose 300 points from her tally when the tournament ends.
Swiatek still has a monstrous lead, becoming the first WTA player since Serena Williams in 2015 to amass over 11,000 ranking points in a season. But her 11,695 points, which she started with during the grass-court swing, have now been cut by 410 points (she also did not defend Bad Homburg’s points).
The biggest beneficiary of Swiatek’s upset is World No. 2 Coco Gauff. The young American was beaten in the opening round in last year’s Wimbledon and had a lot to gain in points this fortnight.
She did just that. The 20-year-old has 8,173 points in the live rankings, reducing her gap to the World No. 1 by 530 points, as she improved by 230 points compared to last year, despite her fourth-round exit. Still, her goal of becoming World No. 1 in the near future looks achievable.
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