Highway to the quarterfinals. This is how Iga Świątek's bracket looks like after a sensational Tuesday at Wimbledon
Jessica Pegula was eliminated from Wimbledon in one of the first matches of the day. The third racket in the world and the conqueror of Iga Świątek lost 2:6, 3:6 in the final of the tournament in Bad Homburg to the 116th player in the world, Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto. Marta Kostjuk also went the way of the American. The 26th ranked player lost 6:3, 3:6, 4:6 to the 171st ranked Slovenian Veronika Erjavec.
Coco Gauff also dropped out. The winner of Roland Garros lost 6:7(3), 1:6 to Dajana Jastremska and ended the tournament in the first round. So the two highest-seeded players on Iga Świątek's side of the bracket are already out. For eight players, this is a highway to the quarterfinals.
In the game after Tuesday's victories are Yelena Rybakina, Mirra Andreyeva, Emma Navarro, and Danielle Collins. Defending champion Barbora Krejcikova also got out of big trouble, losing the first set to Alexandra Eala, but managed to win.
So, several important tennis players are still left on Iga Świątek's part of the ladder. The Pole will face the 208th ranked American Caty McNally in the second round. In the potential third round, our tennis player's opponent will be Danielle Collins or the aforementioned Erjavec.
In the fourth round, the highest-seeded tennis player that the Pole could face is Jelena Rybakina. If Świątek were to overcome this obstacle, Pegula and Gauff would disappear from her path from the potential quarterfinals, and someone from the group of: Daria Kasatkina, Irmina Begu, Julia Starodubtseva, Liudmila Samsonova, Sofia Kenin, Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Anastisia Zakharova, Dayana Yastremska would be waiting there.
The highest-seeded players on their way to a potential semi-final include Mirra Andreeva, Emma Navarro and Barbora Krejcikova.
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