RICKY DIMON RECAPS THE AMERICAN TENNIS PLAYERS @ THE END OF THE WEEK ONE @WIMBLEDON

Written by: Staff on 28th June 2014

RICKY DIMON RECAPS THE AMERICAN TENNIS PLAYERS @ THE END OF THE WEEK ONE @WIMBLEDON |

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Americans short on wins at Wimbledon, but not short on drama

By Ricky Dimon

The first week of Wimbledon has come and gone and the second will begin without either Williams sister.( in singles , they are playing doubles together , and have a second round match on Monday) . Venus Williams lost arguably the best match of the women’s tournament so far, as she went down to Petra Kvitova 5-7, 7-6(2), 7-5 on Friday. Serena Williams also fell in the third round, dropping a 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 stunner to Alize Cornet on Saturday.

“I knew she would play a great match on the grass,” Kvitova said of Venus. “She definitely loves it. Same as me. And I think the match showed just how great of a battle it was from both of us.”

“She kept her unforced errors really low,” Serena said of Cornet. “I don’t know. I think I made a few errors too many. You know, she was going for her shots. She just played really well today. I thought I was playing well. I worked really hard coming into this event.”

It is an event in which no American women are through to the fourth round. Madison Keys is the only woman from the United States still alive. Her third-round match against Yaroslava Shvedova was suspended on Saturday night with a hobbled Keys trailing by a set and heading to a second-set tiebreaker after failing to served out the middle frame of play at 6-5.

The story is a similar one on the men’s side, albeit without the headline story of a No. 1 seed bowing out. Only John Isner remains for the American contingent, but even he is not yet through to the last 16. His third-round match against Feliciano Lopez never began on a rain-soaked day at the All-England Club. Isner and Lopez will will try to get their contest in on Monday after the traditional tennis-free middle Sunday.

Wimbledon’s No. 9 seed has conserved energy by winning back-to-back matches in straight sets for just the third time in his Grand Slam career. But Isner has not advanced without drama. His second-rounder saw him win the second-longest tiebreaker in tournament history, 19-17 over Jarkko Nieminen en route to a 7-6(17), 7-6(3), 7-5 victory.

“I wasn’t that excited when I was down set point however many times I was,” reflected Isner, who is through to the Wimbledon third round for the first time in his career. “Excited when I won that set. That tiebreaker was something else. Fortunately I won. For whatever reason, when I’m in [tiebreakers] I always have a lot of adrenaline and I’m always serving my best, better than what I was getting to that tiebreaker.”

Sam Querrey might be still in it had it not been for yet another brutal Wimbledon loss. The 6’6” American succumbed to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-7 (4), 6-3, 14-12 in a thriller that carried over from Wednesday into Thursday. Querrey has now played five-setters in five consecutive Wimbledon appearances and he has lost five-setters each of the past three years. Tsonga is now 4-0 lifetime when he is extended to five sets at SW19.

Topics: Alize Cornet, Jo Wilfried Tsonga, Madison Keys, Petra Kvitova, Ricky Dimon, Sam Querrey, Serena Williams, Sports, Venus Williams, Wimbledon

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