ANT INVASION: Wozniacki stopped play in her eventual shock defeat to Makarova to ask the umpire to do something so she could ‘focus on tennis, not eating bugs’
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 06, 2018
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, LONDON
Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei on Wednesday advanced to the second round of the women’s
Ekaterina Makarova celebrates defeating Caroline Wozniacki on Wednesday in their Wimbledon women’s singles second-round match in London. Photo: EPA
doubles at the All England Club, while Caroline Wozniacki suffered fresh Wimbledon woe as the world No. 2 suffered a shock 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 defeat to Ekaterina Makarova in the second round of the singles before telling the Russian: “You won’t go far.”
Hsieh and Lucie Hradecka took just 63 minutes to complete a 6-3, 6-3 victory over British duo Katie Boulter and Katie Swan.
The 14th seeds saved four of five break points and converted four of six, winning 67 of the 107 points contested.
The Taiwanese-Czech duo next face a second-round clash with either Veronika Kudermetova of Russia and Belarussian Aryna Sabalenka, who Hsieh partnered in Eastbourne last week, or Danielle Collins of the US and Jessica Moore of Australia.
In the singles, Wozniacki, plagued by an invasion of flying ants during the Court One clash, saved five match points, but has now failed to get past the round-of-16 in 12 visits to the All England Club. [FULL STORY]
