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LONDON (AP) — Canadians Bianca Andreescu and Denis Shapovalov were eliminated from Wimbledon after suffering second-round losses at the All England Tennis Club on Thursday.
Andreescu of Missisauga, Ont. , lost a 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) resolution to Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, while Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont. , lost 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (8-6) to American Brandon Nakashima on Thursday.
Rybakina fired 4 aces at Andreescu’s two and changed 3 of the 4 break balls.
Rybakina also won 80% of the points with his first serve, while Andreescu won 65% of his own.
“I didn’t expect their service to be so smart. . . she played well and was given a lot of balls. He forged quite a bit on both sides. He played a very smart game,” Andreescu said.
Rybakina, 23, seeded 17th in the women’s draw, will face China’s Qinwen Zheng, 19, in third place in the tournament.
Andreescu, 22, is complexing the All England Tennis Club moment for the first time in her career after beating American Emina Bektas 6-1, 6-3 in Tuesday’s opening match.
Shapovalov, seeded in the men’s draw, committed 8 double faults in his loss to Nakashima.
Shapovalov, 23, reached the semi-finals of the All England Club last year, his result in a Grand Slam tournament.
Nakashima, 20, ranked 56th in the world, will then face Daniel Elahi Galán. The Colombian replied to the 3rd circular when Roberto Bautista Agut withdrew from the tournament after testing positive for COVID-19.
Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa, the remaining Canadian at Wimbledon, will compete tomorrow in the doubles circular of the moment. Dabrowski and his wife Giuliana Olmos of Mexico, the 3rd seed of the tournament, will face Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine and Tereza Martincová of the Czech Republic.
Dabrowski and Olmos defeated the duo of Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium and Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 in their first-round match on Thursday.
With an Associated Press record.
This report through The Canadian Press was first published on June 30, 2022.
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