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Reigning Wimbledon champion Markéta Vondroušová stunned by Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in first round upset
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Markéta Vondroušová’s defense of her Wimbledon title has been ended in the first round after Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro pulled off a stunning upset to defeat the Czech in straight sets on Tuesday.
Markéta Vondroušová’s defense of her Wimbledon title has been ended in the first round after Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro pulled off a stunning upset to defeat the Czech in straight sets on Tuesday. Bouzas Maneiro, who is the world No. 83, took just over an hour to dispatch Vondroušová 6-4, 6-2. According to the WTA, Vondroušová is only the second defending women’s champion to be ousted in Wimbledon’s first round in the last 30 years. Steffi Graf was the other champion to fall at the first hurdle in the defense of her title, when she was defeated by Lori McNeil in 1994. Bouzas Maneiro picked up what was comfortably the biggest win of her career. This was just the third grand slam main draw of her career, while she’d previously only logged one match against a top 10 player – a loss to Jelena Ostapenko in Madrid earlier this year. The 21-year-old Spaniard was ruthless throughout the match, converting all five of her break point opportunities. She clinched victory with a spectacular backhand winner down the line that left her opponent rooted to the spot. Vondroušová recently had suffered a right hip injury ahead of the tournament, when the Czech slipped and fell on the grass at a tune-up event in Berlin.