Endine maailma esireket ja kahekordne USA lahtiste tennisemeistriv\u00f5istluste v\u00f5itja, 46-aastane Venus Williams piirdus t\u00e4navusel turniiril avaringiga.<\/p>\n
Korraldajate vabap\u00e4\u00e4smega turniirile saanud Williams (WTA 618.) j\u00e4i tund ja 48 minutit kestnud kohtumises 2:6, 6:7 (6) alla 27-aastasele Sofia Keninile (WTA 110.). Moskvas s\u00fcndinud, aga USA-d esindav Kenin p\u00e4\u00e4ses samuti p\u00f5hiturniirile t\u00e4nu korraldajate vabap\u00e4\u00e4smele.<\/p>\n
Avaseti v\u00f5itis Kenin kindlalt, aga teises setis n\u00e4itas Williams s\u00fcdikat m\u00e4ngu, v\u00f5ites 2:4 kaotusseisust kolm geimi j\u00e4rjest, minnes 5:4 juhtima. Seej\u00e4rel p\u00e4\u00e4stis Kenin enda pallingul kolm murdepalli, mis olid \u00fchtlasi ka settpallid ega suutnud siis Williamsi pallingul nelja murdev\u00f5imalust realiseerida. Sett l\u00e4ks kiiresse l\u00f5ppm\u00e4ngu, kus Williams p\u00e4\u00e4ses 6:2 juhtima, aga Kenin v\u00f5itis siis kuus punkti j\u00e4rjest, p\u00e4\u00e4stes \u00fchtekokku seitse settpalli.<\/p>\n
Viimati p\u00e4\u00e4ses Kenin USA lahtistel avaringist edasi kaks aastat tagasi, t\u00e4navu j\u00f5udis ta teist korda sl\u00e4mmiturniiril teise ringi, samaga sai ta hakkama ka Wimbledonis.<\/p>\n
Eelmise aasta suvel v\u00f5istlustulle naasnud Williams on vabap\u00e4\u00e4smetega p\u00e4\u00e4senud 15 turniirile ning tal on kirjas \u00fcks v\u00f5it ja 15 kaotust. Ainsa v\u00f5idu sai ta mullu enda esimesel turniiril Washingtonis, p\u00e4rast seda on ta kaotanud 15 m\u00e4ngu j\u00e4rjest.<\/p>\n
Asetatud m\u00e4ngijaist langes avap\u00e4eval konkurentsist v\u00e4lja 27. paigutusega t\u0161ehhitar Barbora Krejcikova (WTA 29.), kes j\u00e4i 6:7 (4), 2:6 alla Usbekistani esindavale Kamilla Rahhimovale (WTA 92.).<\/p>\n
Kodupubliku ees m\u00e4ngiv kolmanda asetusega Jessica Pegula alistas 6:3, 6:2 rumeenlanna Elena Gabriela Ruse (WTA 64.), \u00fcheksandana paigutatud ukrainlanna Elina Svitolina oli kindlalt 6:1, 6:2 \u00fcle argentiinlanna Solana Sierrast (WTA 91.) ning 11. asetatud ukrainlanna Marta Kostjuk oli 6:4, 6:1 parem l\u00e4bi kvalifikatsiooni p\u00f5hitabelisse p\u00e4\u00e4senud austraallanna Storm Hunterist (WTA 169.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Endine maailma esireket ja kahekordne USA lahtiste tennisemeistriv\u00f5istluste v\u00f5itja, 46-aastane Venus Williams piirdus t\u00e4navusel turniiril avaringiga. Korraldajate vabap\u00e4\u00e4smega…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[18],"tags":[37,33,35,34,36,102820,159,158,94855,94856,18203],"class_list":["post-264670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sport","tag-ee","tag-eesti","tag-eesti-keel","tag-estonia","tag-estonian","tag-sofia-kenin","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennise-usa-lahtised","tag-usa-lahtised-tennisemeistrivoistlused","tag-venus-williams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ee\/117189087539526654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}