Wimbledon – Jiří Lehečka (23) unexpectedly dropped out in this year’s Wimbledon in the second round. The Czech tennis player, who came to the grassy Grand Slam after the final participation in Queen’s Club, London, did not confirm the role of a huge favorite against Matti Bellucci (24) and lost 6: 7, 1: 6, 4: 6. He underlined the unsuccessful day of Czech players, when only Linda Nosková (20) advanced from the Czech five.
Lehečka – Bellucci 6: 7, 1: 6, 5: 7
In the second round in the All England Club, Jiří Lehečka did not make the role of a favorite against Italian Mattiu Belluci, for whom grass is definitely not a favorite surface, and his journey ends with the tournament. He imitated the failures of Marie Bouzková, Markéta Vondroušová and Kateřina Siniaková. The only Wednesday progressing became Linda Nosková, who, on the other hand, managed the role of the players.
The Czech tennis player in the first set has never lost its service, but he lost the act in a shortened game and, like in the first round with Hugo Gaston, lost the opening set. Unlike the previous match, however, he could not respond to the loss of act.
For a long time he could not break Italian’s submission and hesitated four times. In the second act he could do one game and in the third act he held on to 3: 2. From then on, he lost three games in a row, and a moment later Bellucci went to serve on a shocking scalp. In the tenth game Leheka used the fourth break and broke the opponent for the first time. However, he could not do more and had to say goodbye to the tournament after an unexpected and quite clear defeat.
Lehcek did not help even great preparation. He ended up in grass tournaments in the quarterfinals in Stuttgart, where he lost with the flawless serving Ben Shelton. He did even better in the General at Queen’s Club, where he scored the scalps de Minaur and the domestic draper and succumbed only in the three -hundred battle for Alcaraz’s title.
On the other hand, the Italian outsider certainly did not have a successful preparation, he arrived on Wimbledon with this year’s 3: 4 balance on the fastest surface and in the opening round he lost a set with a home player the third hundred wild card Oliver Crawford.
Lehka did not take advantage of the fact that he could earn a large portion of points on Wimbledon. Last year he was missing here because of the back injury and until August he does not defend any points. On the other hand, the world’s 73 player first looks at the third round of the Grand Slam, inviting Cameron Norrie.
Results of men’s singles in Wimbledon
The article was originally published for Livesport messages.
