Their Wimbledon third round meeting was not the first between Angelique Kerber, the ex- fourth-ranked woman in the world from Germany and Garbiñe Muguruza, the 21-year-old Venezuela-born Spaniard.
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The Dane lost out 6-4, 6-4 to Garbine Muguruza on Monday, and most of the headlines that came from her post-game press conference were in relation to a question she was asked about Rory McIlroy’s ankle injury.
She said: “I would love to play on a big court”.
During the first seven days at Wimbledon, only nine out of the 24 matches scheduled on Centre Court were from the women’s draw.
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On Monday there were two men’s singles matches and one women’s singles match on Centre Court and Court One.
“Mate, Rafa (Rafael Nadal) and stuff play 30 seconds in between points every time and all I’m doing is putting my sock back on”.
The Russian fourth seed, who won the 2004 title, has yet to drop a set but came through what was by far her longest match of the tournament in the 97-minute contest on the 11,000-seater Court One.
“So I think it doesn’t start here”.
Thoroughbred Russian grit outclassed all-American pedigree as Maria Sharapova fended off Coco Vandeweghe to set up a probable Wimbledon semi-final with Serena Williams.
Elsewhere in the third round, Agnieszka Radwanska beat Jelena Jankovic in straight sets 7-5 6-4.
And the 24-year-old believes the decision of All England Club officials to favour matches featuring male stars like Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic over ties involving the leading female players must change. Just played really focused those two games that I was able to break.
“I really regrouped and obviously she was playing with a lot of confidence and had nothing to lose”.
“But for me, I feel like my tournament has finally begun”. [It] felt like it was a completely different court than the other ones I played on.
Wozniacki said the round of 16 had not be kind to her at Wimbledon. “But I’ve had some tough matches against her in the past”.
The attitude toward the noise players make on court has also been aired at Wimbledon this year already and could also gain traction.
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“If you told me he did an entire set, plus more, plus this, I’d say, “Okay, it’s a bit much probably””.
