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Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula eliminated at Wimbledon in stunning day of upsets
Coco Gauff has become just the third woman in the Open era to lose in the first round at Wimbledon right after winning the championship at the French Open, eliminated 7-6 (3), 6-1 by unseeded Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine on Tuesday morning (AEST). The number two-ranked Gauff made mistake after mistake at No.1 Court, finishing with just six winners and a total of 29 unforced errors that included nine double-faults. She joined another highly seeded American, number three Jessica Pegula, in bowing out on day two of the tournament. "I was really on fire," said Yastremska, who accumulated 16 winners. "Playing against Coco, it is something special." It was just a little more than three weeks ago that Gauff was celebrating her second grand slam title by getting past world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the final on the red clay of Roland-Garros. The 21-year-old American also took home the trophy from the 2023 US Open. But even though Gauff's big breakthrough came at the All England Club at age 15 in 2019, when she beat Venus Williams in her opening match and made it all the way to the fourth round, the grass-court tournament has proved to be her least-successful major. It's the only Slam where Gauff hasn't made at least the semifinals. Indeed, she has yet to get past the fourth round and now has been sent home in the first round twice in the past three years. The transition from clay to grass has proven tough for most players, and the last woman to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the same season was Serena Williams a decade ago. Still, since the Open era began in 1968, only Justine Henin in 2005 and Francesca Schiavone in 2010 went from holding the trophy in Paris to exiting immediately in London. Gauff was never quite at her best against Yastremska, who had lost all three of their previous match-ups and currently is ranked 42nd. Yastremska's best Grand Slam result was making it all the way to the semifinals on the Australian Open's hard courts last year, although she entered this event with a record of only 10-11 in first-round matches at majors. Gauff, by contrast, was 20-3 at that stage, including a loss to Sofia Kenin at Wimbledon in 2023. Yastremska's deepest run at Wimbledon was making the fourth round in 2019, although she did get to the final of the junior event in 2016. She recently reached her first tournament final on grass, at a smaller event in Nottingham, which she said gave her confidence heading to the All England Club. "I love playing on grass. I feel that this year we are kind of friends," Yastremska said. "I hope the road will continue for me here." AP
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Daria Kasatkina recovers from nervous vomit to advance at Wimbledon as Alex de Minaur helps lead Australian revival
Australia's Wimbledon challenge has been reinvigorated after a disastrous opening day as Alex de Minaur and Daria Kasatkina led a four-win revival. On another sweltering day in London, the pair raced into the second round by early afternoon and were joined by Aleksandar Vukic and Rinky Hijikata. Seven Australians lost in Monday's calamitous start, with only an injured Jordan Thompson battling through. But there will now be five in the last-64 draw. Sixteenth seed Kasatkina became the first and only one of the seven Aussie women to progress with her 7-5, 6-3 victory over Colombian Emiliana Arango. Beaten in three matches on grass this season, she laboured against the world number 76, revealing she was so nervous in her first Wimbledon appearance since switching allegiance to Australia that she vomited outside just before entering court 14. "A lot of people saw it five metres from the court. I vomit[ed], so just before entering the court, yes, the little accident happened, like, completely out of nerves," she explained. She dished up 11 double faults and 38 unforced errors against Arango, but the South American contributed to her own defeat, making 39 errors of her own. De Minaur was far more authoritative in his first grand slam outing since taking a break after his shock second-round exit at the French Open, beating Spain's Roberto Carballes Baena 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (7-2) in 2 hours and 25 minutes. Even a delay while an unwell ball boy was replaced, just before De Minaur was to serve to stay in the third set at 5-6, did not faze the 11th seed. His form was sharp enough, given his lack of match practice on grass. "It felt like a very solid match against a tough competitor, and there was a little bit of everything. There was some really good tennis, some tough moments, which I played through," said de Minaur, thrilled to have his family watching from courtside. "At the end, I had to lift my level when I needed it and played some clutch tennis to finish it off. So overall, quite happy." The chances of an all-Sydney second-round meeting were extinguished, though, after Adam Walton, having battled back from two sets down, lost 6-3, 7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1 to Frenchman Arthur Cazaux, who will face de Minaur for the first time. Vukic beat Chinese Taipei's Chun-Hsin Tseng 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7-5) in just over 3 hours, setting up a daunting meeting with world number one Jannik Sinner, who defeated compatriot Luca Nardi 6-4, 6-3, 6-0. It will be the second year running Vukic has drawn a big gun in the last-64, having impressed while losing to champion Carlos Alcaraz in 2024. "I've really nothing to lose," Vukic said. "He'll be the one feeling the pressure. If there's a surface to play him on, it's probably this one because it is a bit more random, so more upsets can happen. Hopefully, I can be one of those." Sinner agreed that he had nothing to lose. "Things won't be easy for me", he said, adding: "Australian tennis is in a good spot. They have some good players." Hijikata made surprisingly easy progress against veteran David Goffin, brushing aside the 34-year-old Belgian 6-3, 6-1, 6-1 after temperatures dropped in the evening. Next he will face Ben Shelton, the American 10th seed who proved a younger, superior mirror image of Alex Bolt, defeating the Murray Bridge qualifier 6-4, 7-6 (7-1), 7-6 (7-4). Beyond Kasatkina's win, it was a chastening day for the Australian women's challenge, with the biggest disappointment being 19-year-old new Eastbourne champion Maya Joint's fairly routine 6-3, 6-2 defeat to a teak tough first-round opponent, Russian 19th seed Liudmila Samsonova. It was deja vu for Joint, who won the Morocco Open in Rabat the weekend before losing in the first round at Roland Garros. "It's something I hope to get used to, but it was a lot different from the last time when I was coming from Morocco," the teenager said. "I obviously expected to do a bit better but Liudmila played really well." Priscilla Hon went down 6-2, 7-5 to Russian 18th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova while fellow debutant, Sydney's James McCabe, was well beaten 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 by Hungary's world number 58, Fabian Marozsan, after he arrived for his match later than he hoped for due to his car getting stuck in a traffic jam. AAP
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Premier Peter Malinauskas under fire for takeover of Adelaide golf course
Since launching nearly four years ago, LIV Golf Tour has become a huge success. The professional golf tournament was created and is funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The South Australian government has secured the rights to host the event in Adelaide until 2031, but it's coming at a cost. 7.30's Angelique Donnellan reports.
