The surprises started early at the Australian Open 2022 on Thursday as third-seed Garbine Muguruza became the highest-seeded player to exit at Melbourne Park, just minutes after No. 6 Anett Kontaveit lost. (More Tennis News)
Muguruza never managed to earn a single breakpoint and made a whopping 33 unforced errors, more than twice her opponent바카라s total, in a 6-3, 6-3 defeat against Alize Cornet in the second round under a bright blue and cloudless sky at Rod Laver Arena.
바카라A little bit surprised about my level. I am a little disappointed, too,바카라 said Muguruza, who won the season-ending WTA Finals in 2021. 바카라I feel like my shots weren바카라t as accurate and precise. I feel, also, my aggressive game wasn바카라t that aggressive today.바카라
Here바카라s how unexpected that result was: Muguruza is a two-time Grand Slam champion and a two-time major runner-up, too, including making it to the final at the Australian Open in 2020. And the 61st-ranked Cornet? She바카라s appearing in her 63rd career major tournament 바카라 and 60th in a row 바카라 but never has been beyond the fourth round.
Cornet will get a chance to equal that showing when she plays Saturday on what will be the Frenchwoman바카라s 32nd birthday. She called herself 바카라a little bit (of) a dinosaur.바카라 바카라I don바카라t know how many years I have left,바카라 Cornet said. 바카라Today was a perfect gift I could give myself and I really hope the journey바카라s going to go even farther for me.바카라
Muguruza said she didn바카라t feel at her best physically and noted that the start of this season was 바카라kind of stressful,바카라 because COVID-19 spread through her support team and she was apart from them for two weeks.
Kontaveit, who lost to Muguruza in the title match at the WTA Finals, was beaten 6-2, 6-3 by 19-year-old Clara Tauson of Denmark. 바카라I just went in there believing I could win, but it wasn바카라t like I have to win,바카라 said Tauson, who will make her debut in the third round at a major against 2019 Australian Open semifinalist Danielle Collins. 바카라It was more: 바카라I can win, but we바카라ll see what happens.바카라바카라
Other women advancing included No. 7 Iga Swiatek, the 2020 French Open champion, who defeated Rebecca Peterson 6-2, 6-2, and No. 31 Marketa Vondrousova, the 2019 runner-up at Roland Garros, who beat Liudmila Samsonova 6-2, 7-5.
Winners among the men included No. 5 Andrey Rublev, 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic and 70th-ranked Maxime Cressy of the U.S. No. 24 Dan Evans moved on when the player he was supposed to face in the second round, Arthur Rinderknech, pulled out with an injured wrist.
