LONDON, July 6 — Iga Swiatek has seen off all-comers during an impressive 21-match winning run but today she faces a Wimbledon opponent in Yulia Putintseva who has a reputation...
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The Russian-born player was ticked off by the chair umpire for moving from side to side as Swiatek shaped to serve.Putintseva, who describes herself as “a gangster on court and angel off it”, even threw in a collection of underarm serves.“I can only be responsible for what’s going on with me. I want to keep my standards high no matter what’s going on, and I think this match was a test for my mental training that I did.
Next up for the seven-time champion is Australia’s Alexei Popyrin, whom he beat in four sets at the Australian Open earlier this year. Novak Djokovic barely broke sweat in his opening match this week but was pushed hard in his second encounter by British rookie Jacob Fearnley. — AFP picFrance’s Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard is a hangover from a previous age of big-serving giants.
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