Rybakina comes back and advances to the second round at Wimbledon

2023-07-05 03:21:07

With the watchful eye of the legendary Roger Federer in the box on the central court, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, defending champion, bailed out and turned their opening match around by 4-6, 6-1 y 6-4 about the american Shelby Rogers to advance the second round of Wimbledon in London. The battle raged for 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Title defense begun ????️

No.3 seed Elena Rybakina’s comeback win over Rogers sets up a Round 2 clash with either Cornet or Hibino!#Wimbledonpic.twitter.com/922XK9I7cl

— wta (@WTA) July 4, 2023

Rybakina did not have the best of preparations for Wimbledonthird Grand Slam of the season, since in the previous one she was dealing with persistent effects of a respiratory disease, which affected her from Roland Garros in Paris and was forced into retirement.

At first, it didn’t look so good, as Rogers, 49 del rankinghe was able to break early and then he knew how to hold on to win the primer set. They both fought with their weapons, but Rogers served better and that allowed her to control the exchanges from the backcourt.

Rogers was able to save a break point in the 2-1 and then he produced some good shots to take advantage. That changed in the second and third sets, turning the situation completely in favor of Rybakina, who dominated the game from the baseline, thanks to his recording 20 winners and only 7 unforced errors.

In the second set, the Kazakhstan broke serve twice to win in 29 minutes. An early break in the decider proved key and a relieved Rybakina was able to advance to the second round.
It was a victory via comeback for the champion of the 2022, who is a better player than Rogers on lawn.
Still, he needs to fine-tune a few things to progress to the ultimate levels, but if he plays his best tennis and serves well, he can cause a lot of trouble for his next opponents.

Nervous

“Today was very difficult for me, I was quite nervous, I couldn’t even hide it. The double fault said it all in the first game of the match. I’m very happy to get to another round. I feel much better and I hope that this victory will bring me more confidence for the next round”, said the champion, Interviewed on the pitch.

“I was pretty nervous… I cannot hide it”

Even a #Wimbledon champion gets tense walking on to Centre Court pic.twitter.com/V87agRpgWT

— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 4, 2023