Jessica Bouzas knocks out the reigning Wimbledon champion

Spanish tennis participant Jessica Bouzas beat the reigning champion and world quantity six, Czech Marketa Vondrousova, within the first spherical of Wimbledon on Tuesday, the third Grand Slam of the yr to be performed on grass, in a match during which the Galician was far superior, successful in two units (6-4, 6-2) in 1 hour and 19 minutes of play.

Bouzas, 21, made historical past in her Wimbledon debut by eliminating the reigning champion within the first spherical in a match she dominated from begin to end. The Spaniard, world quantity 83, thus achieved her first victory in a Grand Slam match as an expert.

The Spaniard gave no likelihood to a Vondrousova who was significantly erratic in her sport (28 unforced errors), in addition to contemplative with a serve that she gave up on 5 events through the match and with which she dedicated seven double faults. Fairly the other for Bouzas, who regardless of the low share of first serves (59 %), was strong, committing solely 14 unforced errors.

From the beginning of the match, the Galician confirmed that she wished to do injury to the Czech’s serve. Actually, the primary break of serve would come within the first sport of the match. Nevertheless, the Czech champion recovered and hit again on the Spaniard within the fourth sport of the match, breaking Bouzas’ serve for the primary and solely time within the set.

The ultimate blow for the Spaniard to take the primary set would include the rating at 3-3. At that second, the Galician tennis participant broke the Czech’s serve for the second time, a break that she would affirm this time by holding her serve in her subsequent two turns, to finish up taking the primary set 6-4.

Bouzas’ superiority was much more evident within the second and decisive set. As within the first, the 21-year-old broke her opponent’s serve within the first sport, however that will not be the one event, as she would additionally achieve this within the third and seventh video games. Three breaks that, regardless of dropping her serve on one event, led to the Spaniard’s victory by a powerful 6-2.

Within the second spherical, Bouzas will face her compatriot Cristina Bucsa, who defeated Romanian Ana Bogdan within the third set tie-break 10-5 within the first spherical. Earlier than that, each gamers had received one set every 6-4 in a match that was stopped twice on account of rain and ended with a rating of 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5) in 3 hours and quarter-hour.