World No 1 Iga Swiatek dumped out of Wimbledon by Yulia Putintseva

World No 1 Iga Swiatek dumped out of Wimbledon by Yulia Putintseva

World No 35 triumphs in emphatic 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 winFrench Open champion again falls short in SW19

There is every chance that Iga Swiatek will win Wimbledon one day but it will not be this year after the world No 1 was dumped out in the third round by Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan in a remarkable match on Saturday. The Pole, who won her fifth grand slam title last month, unravelled as Putintseva, full of tricks and tennis smarts, recorded a stunning 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 victory.

Swiatek hit 38 unforced errors, the wheels coming off as Putintseva earned the biggest win of her career to set up a last-16 clash with Jelena Ostapenko. “I totally let her come back into the [match] in the second set,” Swiatek said. “I shouldn’t have done that. I made some mistakes, as well. For sure, she used her chance. I felt like my energy level went down a little bit in the second set. I couldn’t really get back up.”

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