After winning her first match at Wimbledon on Monday, Caroline Garcia predicted her second-round clash against Emma Raducanu received a ticket to the center court.
“It will be my first game on the central court, and it’s always a pleasure to play on the big Slam courts, and Wimbledon is very special,” he said after beating another British player, Yuriko Miyazaki. “It will be a great atmosphere. Looking forward to it.”
Garcia was not only cautious. She came out victorious. With a 6-3, 6-3 victory over the No. 10 seed and local favorite, the former world No. 4 advanced to the third round at the All-England Club for the third time in his career. The win has also given Garcia some revenge against Raducanu this season; he had lost to her in three sets at the BNP Paribas Open in March at his first race meeting.
“I’m definitely very happy with my performance today,” Garcia told reporters after the match. “I knew it would be a tough game, and playing on the center court is never easy for the first time. I’m very happy with the way I played my game and I did it.
“Of course, when you play someone who played really well in the past in this tournament, and is obviously very successful in big events, I know she will play her best today. She was on the center court, it’s my first time, so I was really trying to focus on myself, how I could prepare, expect the best from her and be prepared for my game what I wanted to do, be aggressive and try one point at a time. ”
Match Management: Garcia lived up to it in 85 minutes, showing the form that led her to the highest ranking of her career four years ago. The Frenchwoman christened 24 winners, more than double Raducanu’s 11, earned 71% of the points played behind her first serve and won 15 of the 18 points when she hit the net.
Not only was his tennis equipment on the biggest stage of the event – he said his mentality was too.
“I’m very happy to have played my first big game on the central court and to have won, because I don’t have good memories of my first step on the other central slam track like the US Open or the Australian Open, and French Open, too. ”
“It’s experience, you know. You learn everything. Obviously, I’m very happy that today I played a full game from the first point to the last.”
Reversing its trend at Wimbledon: Bad Homburg champion Garcia has now won her last seven matches. However, by reaching this year’s championships, he had a record loss on the grass court. He hadn’t won a game at Wimbledon since reaching the round of 16 in 2017. He also made it to the third round in 2014.
To match his best performance at the All-England Club, Garcia will have to beat another top seed: No. 33 Zhang Shuai. Zhang, who entered the standings after Madison Keys withdrew from the championship due to injury, saved three set points in the first set of her 7-6 (6), 6-2 victory over Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk.
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Zhang beat Garcia twice in his three career meetings, even earlier at Wimbledon and earlier this year. He won 6-4, 6-0 in the first round at Wimbledon in 2019, and also won the Lyon semifinals in February on his way to winning the title.