Genius and unimaginable mistakes
The American was cheered by the crowd when she stepped onto the grass again, but she quickly lacked practice and suffered a break of her first serve in her first game.
Initially well below her best and apparently out of shape, she recovered and broke her opponent’s serve in game four to tie it at 2-2, cheered on by the crowd.
After losing the first set, she seemed to regain her temper, concentrating on her serve and going up to the net to finish several points with great determination.
But something rusty also made once-unimaginable mistakes, in the slice shots or when subtracting the serve of an inexperienced player but that made her run until exhaustion.
However, he improved his accuracy when searching for the lines, in backhand crosscourts with great angles that allowed him to tie two sets for a quick 6-1.
Despite being one step away from winning the match in the tenth game of the third set, he ended up seeing a match point against which he saved with a powerful and effective volley.
He thus reached a tie-break that he began to dominate with precision and ended up losing with several errors.
“I’m so excitedTan assured.He is a superstar. When she was a child, she saw it so many times on television“.
“I thought if I could win one game, two games, it would be really good for me,” he said, almost incredulously at his feat.
After a year away from the treads, last week Williams warmed up engines forming a couple with Ons Jabeur in the Eastbourne doubles tournament, where they had to withdraw after winning two rounds due to an injury to the Tunisian.
The American won the last of her seven Wimbledon titles six years ago but reached the final in 2018 and 2019.