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Fourth seed Elena Rybakina showcased why she\u2019s a new title contender with a commanding performance against Anna Kalinskaya, who retired injured from the match.<\/p>\n
Rybakina, the 2022 champion, was leading 6-3, 3-0 when Kalinskaya, overwhelmed by a wrist injury, left the last-16 match in tears. The Russian 17th seed had earlier taken a medical timeout during the first set.<\/p>\n
Rybakina, born in Russia and representing Kazakhstan, is the top remaining seed in the women\u2019s draw and is set to play against Svitolina next.<\/p>\n
At 25, Rybakina is the sole past Wimbledon champion in the current women\u2019s draw, her position bolstered by the recent exits of notable players like Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n
Despite losing her serve in the match\u2019s opening game and falling behind 3-1, Rybakina rallied to win five straight games, including two breaks to love, securing the first set.<\/p>\n
She continued her momentum into the second set, breaking early, holding off a break point, and breaking again to establish a decisive lead.<\/p>\n
Kalinskaya, also 25, visibly hampered since mid-first set, chose to retire to avoid aggravating her injury.<\/p>\n
Ostapenko ends Putintseva\u2019s eight-match winning streak<\/strong><\/p>\n On Court One, Latvia\u2019s 13th seed Jelena Ostapenko defeated unseeded Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-2, 6-3 with a strong display.<\/p>\n Ostapenko, a former French Open winner, overpowered Putintseva, the player who ousted Swiatek, with her aggressive baseline play.<\/p>\n This victory secures 27-year-old Ostapenko a spot in her third Wimbledon quarter-final, where she will face either American 11th seed Danielle Collins or Czech 31st seed Barbora Krejcikova.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Fourth seed Elena Rybakina showcased why she\u2019s a new title contender with a commanding performance against Anna Kalinskaya, who retired injured from the match. Rybakina, the 2022 champion, was leading 6-3, 3-0 when Kalinskaya, overwhelmed by a wrist injury, left the last-16 match in tears. The Russian 17th seed had earlier taken a medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Wimbledon-2024-1-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33841,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33839\/revisions\/33841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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