Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka show vulnerability as they drop sets
“It wasn’t easy,” Swiatek said. “Petra was really playing well. I’m happy with my performance, I feel like I’m doing well on grass, that’s the most important thing for me.”
At one stage in the second set Sabalenka was so distraught she let out a huge scream. If it was not quite the Serena Williams roar it had a similar effect. “I was little bit crazy in that moment,” she admitted. “I mean, I can’t throw my racket on the grass, so I felt like at least I need to scream, kind of lose it a little bit. After that I felt a little bit better. I felt a little relief inside. I felt like I started thinking a little bit better.
Sabalenka’s third-round opponent will be Anna Blinkova but there are bigger dangers in her half, including Ons Jabeur and Madison Keys, who both won on Friday, and the two-time champion Petra Kvitova, who cruised into the third round with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
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