The recurring cries of 바카라Come on, Andy!바카라 at Centre Court meandered somewhere along the continuum from pushing to pleading as two-time champion Andy Murray바카라s shortest stay at Wimbledon came to a close. (More Tennis News)
Unable to overcome big John Isner바카라s big serves, the way he always has in the past, the revered Murray lost in the second round to the 20th-seeded American 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (3), 6-4 on Wednesday night at the All England Club, capping a disappointing afternoon and evening in the grass-court Grand Slam tournament바카라s main stadium for the locals.
Prior to Murray versus Isner, the host country바카라s other leading player, reigning U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu, was eliminated by Caroline Garcia of France 6-3, 6-3.
Asked whether he plans to be back a year from now, the 35-year-old Murray replied: 바카라It depends on how I am physically. If physically I feel good, we바카라ll try to keep playing. But it바카라s extremely difficult, with the problems I바카라ve had with my body the last few years, to make predictions.바카라
Murray needed multiple operations on his hip and now has an artificial joint. He also recently dealt with an abdominal issue that hampered his preparations last week.
In addition to becoming Britain바카라s first men바카라s singles title winner in 77 years at Wimbledon when he claimed the trophy in 2013 바카라 and adding another in 2016 바카라 Murray always had managed to make it to at least the third round in his 13 prior appearances. He lost that early twice, in his 2005 debut and in 2021.
바카라It바카라s no secret that I am most definitely not a better tennis player than Andy Murray. I might have been just a little bit better than him today. It was an incredible honour to play him on this court, in front of this crowd,바카라 said the 37-year-old Isner, who won the longest match in tennis history by a 70-68 score in the fifth set at Wimbledon in 2010 and reached the semifinals there in 2018.
바카라At the age I바카라m at now, I need to relish these moments. This was one of the biggest wins of my career.바카라
Murray can still hit crisp, clean groundstrokes, and he accumulated merely 13 unforced errors to 39 winners against the 6-foot-10 (2.08-meter) Isner. And Murray can still return about as well as anyone, often getting serves topping 130 mph (210 kph) back over the net.
But he could not quite do that enough: Isner hit 36 aces 바카라 moving him four away from Ivo Karlovic바카라s total of 13,728, a record since the ATP began tracking that stat in 1991 바카라 and delivered another 60 unreturned serves across the match바카라s nearly 3 1/2 hours.
Murray, who entered the day 8-0 against Isner, only managed to obtain two break points. Both came after about a dozen minutes of play, right after Isner broke to go up 2-1 in the opening set. Isner erased the first with a drop volley winner, part of a tremendous display of deft touch up at the net, where he won the point on 43 of 61 trips forward.
바카라This is why I still play,바카라 Isner said. 바카라This is why I work hard.바카라 When the second break chance for Murray arrived moments later, Isner got out of the game this way: 128 mph (206 kph) ace, 126 mph (203 kph) ace, 134 mph (216 kph) service winner.
Murray made things interesting by taking the third-set tiebreaker, celebrating by hopping around and shouting and pumping his right fist while the crowd rose and roared. But Isner quickly broke to go up 3-2 in the fourth and that, essentially, was that.
How did Isner hold off any chance of a comeback by Murray? 바카라I served,바카라 Isner said with a laugh. 바카라That바카라s really all it came down to. I guess I didn바카라t give him many opportunities to spin his web and get me tangled up in it. If I got embroiled in too many rallies with him, it just wasn바카라t going to go well for me. I had an incredible serving day and I needed every single bit of it to beat him.바카라
Next for Isner is a third-round matchup against No. 10 seed Jannik Sinner. Other men who won Wednesday included three-time defending champion Novak Djokovic and No. 5 Carlos Alcaraz, while No. 3 Casper Ruud 바카라 the runner-up to Rafael Nadal at the French Open 바카라 lost 3-6, 6-2, 7-5, 6-4 to Ugo Humbert, and No. 15 Reilly Opelka was defeated by Tim Van Rijthoven 6-4, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4).
Only four of the top 11 men in the ATP rankings are in the bracket after Day 3. In addition to No. 10 Raducanu바카라s exit, No. 2 Anett Kontaveit lost to Juke Niemeier of Germany 6-4, 6-0, and No. 9 Garbiñe Muguruza, the champion at Wimbledon in 2017 and the French Open in 2016, was beaten by Greet Minnen 6-4, 6-0.
Women바카라s winners included 2021 runner-up Karolina Pliskova, No. 8 Jessica Pegula, three-time major champion Angelique Kerber and 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko. Raducanu won the championship at Flushing Meadows in September as an unseeded player who went through qualifying at age 18.
Since then, she바카라s had a birthday 바카라 and has not made it past the second round at a major. 바카라There바카라s no pressure. Like, why is there any pressure? I바카라m still 19. Like, it바카라s a joke. I literally won a Slam,바카라 Raducanu said. 바카라Yes, I have had attention. But I바카라m a Slam champion, so no one바카라s going to take that away from me. Yeah, if anything, the pressure is on those who haven바카라t done that.바카라
