The old number one in the world Novak Djokovic and the current male tennis pattern Jannik Sinner easily solved on Tuesday their tickets in Liza in Wimbledon, unlike Alexander Zverev (3rd) and the American Coco Gauff, N.2 of the world and recent Roland Garros champion.
Also other weight names such as the Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the Chinese Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen and the American Jessica Pegula, said goodbye to first change in the Grand Slam London.
Sinner, who will turn 24 in August, only found resistance in his compatriot Luca Nardi, 21, in the first set, to end up beating 6-4, 6-3 and 6-0.
Sinner, winner of three Grand Slam trophies (Two open Australia and a US Open), seeks its first title in Wimbledon, where its best result is the semifinals of 2023.
“At first, we both had a little difficulties, but I am happy in the way this game ended,” said World one number one.
After defeating Nardi, 95º classified of the ATPAustraliano Aleksandar Vukic, 93rd World Player will be measured in second round.
The Italian won his second Australian Open in January before losing in five sets, in June, the Roland Garros final against the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz.
And the seven-time Wimbledon Novak Djokovic champion, 38, began his search for a 25th ‘big’ to defeat Frenchman Alexandre Müller 6-1, 6-7 (7/9), 6-2, 6-2.
The Serbian will face in second round with the 35 -year -old British Daniel Evans.
With a 25th Grand Slam title, Djokovic would exceed the Australian Margaret Court, winner of 24 ‘great’ individual (13 of them before the start of the Open era in 1968).
“I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t believe I have a possibility”smiling the current N.6 of the world at the end of the game.
For his part, Zverev, third favorite, lost with the Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech, 72nd World, 7-6 (7/3), 6-7 (8/10), 6-3, 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, after 4 hours and 40 minutes of play.
The next French rival will be the Chilean Cristian Garín (110º of the ATP).
Lorenzo Musetti, semifinalist of Wimbledon in 2024 and world number 7, lost in the first round against Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili.
Olympic bronze of Paris-2024, Musetti is already the fourth member of the Top 10 of the ATP that is eliminated in Wimbledon, after the defeats, on Monday, on the first day, of the Danish Holger Rune (8th) and the Russian Daniil Medvedev (9th), and on Tuesday, of Zverev.
In women, the big surprise came with the elimination of Gauff, N.2 of the world.
The 21-year-old American lost 7-6 (7/3), 6-1 against Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska (42), just a few weeks after being eliminated from entry in the WTA 500 in Berlin, and thus ends her short season over grass without any victory.
It is only the third time in the Open era that Roland Garros winner falls the same year in the first round of Wimbledon, after the Belgian Justine Henin in 2005 and the Italian Francesca Schiavone in 2010.
“I feel that I was mentally overwhelmed with everything that came later (from Roland Garros),” Gauff acknowledged. «It is the first time with this experience of getting from a victory and having to play Wimbledon. I definitely learned a lot from what I would do and I would not do again.
And Pegula, third in the world, lost against the Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto (N.116) by 6-2 and 6-3.
For its part, the China Zheng Qinwen, sixth of the Ranking WTA, was eliminated in the first round by the Czech Katerina Siniakova (n.81).
The current Wimbledon champion, the Czech Barbora Krejcikova (16th world), exceeded the first round by defeating, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, to the Filipina Alexandra Eala (56th of the WTA), recent finalist of the English tournament on Eastbourne grass.
Finally, the Polish IgA Swiatek (4th) was imposed on the Russian Polina Kudermetova (64th), 7-5 and 6-1.
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