At Wimbledon, stars like Coco Gauff exit with 'shocking' losses

From Coco Gauff to Alexander Zverev, Wimbledon's first round saw many of the world's best tennis players lose. "It's kind of shocking," one top player said.

No one in women's tennis was better than Coco Gauff in early June.

Standing on a clay court in Paris, Gauff, 21, lifted a silver trophy after she won the French Open, the second major championship of her career and the first time an American had won it since Serena Williams in 2015.

Just three weeks later, chasing her second major title of the season, Gauff didn't even make it out of her opening match on the grass courts of Wimbledon. It was a stunning result — all the more because it wasn't an outlier.

In all, 23 seeded men and women were beaten in Wimbledon's first round, the most since the current seeding format began in 2001. In addition to Gauff, who entered with the second-highest seeding, third-seeded Jessica Pegula lost in the women's singles draw. It was the first time since 1968 — a turning point in the sport's history when professionals began competing alongside amateurs at major tournaments — that two of the top three women's seeds had been knocked out during the first round of a Grand Slam tournament.

“This is why tennis is the best reality show on Earth,” former U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick said on his podcast Tuesday. “There’s no script.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/tennis/wimbledon-tennis-coco-gauff-upsets-rcna216362


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