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.”
