After having waited a long time before completing his first round match started on Monday, the Canadian Denis Shapovalov came back strong to defeat the Moldovan Radu Albot in four sets of 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 and 6-2 at the tournament. Wimbledon tennis, Wednesday.
The 29th player in the world took 2h 29min to overcome the 107th racket of the ATP, but this duration concerns only the playing time. Indeed, the rain spoiled the plans of the participants and the organizers of the third Grand Slam of the season since the start of the week, causing the postponement of scheduled away matches.
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Nevertheless, Shapovalov took advantage of his return to the field to win thanks in particular to 13 aces. Making six breaks in 15 occasions, he also had 44 winners, four times more than his rival.
The next challenge for the Ontarian will be Frenchman Grégoire Barrère, 49th on the professional circuit.
Everything falls apart for Zhao
On the women’s side, Canadian Carol Zhao thought she was well into the second round, but it was without counting on the tenacity of Germany’s Tamara Korpastch who came back from behind to win 1-6, 6-4 and 6. -2.
Ranked 122nd by the WTA, the winner capitalized on the maple leaf athlete’s seven double faults, getting five breaks in the process. She for her part committed 22 unforced errors in the last two sets.
Zhao (166th) had reached the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career thanks to his qualifying success.
Andreescu will have to wait
As for Bianca Andreescu, she will have to wait one more day before stepping into action for her first-round duel against Hungary’s Anna Bondar. The bad weather conditions came to play the spoilsports during the third day of competition.