The Ukrainians were not much inferior to the more prestigious Americans, but Coco and Jessica twice had better endings of sets
Ukrainian tennis players Angelina Kalinina And Diana Yastremskaya lost to the Americans after a fight Coco Gauff And Jessica Pegula in the first round of the doubles Wimbledon 2024.
The match lasted more than two and a half hours. The two representatives of the top-4 singles world women’s ranking were objectively considered the favorites of the confrontation, but they received fierce and equal resistance.
In the first set, Coco and Jessica were leading 3:0, 4:1, 5:2, but the Ukrainians made a comeback. And yet the set remained with the representatives of the USA – 7:5.
Then history repeated itself: Dayana and Angelina were losing by three games, but they tied the score and took the game to a tie-break. There, in an equal fight, Gaff and Pegula lost a match point, after which their opponents equalized the stakes – 9:7, 1:1 in the sum of sets.
In the decisive set, the Ukrainian representatives again caught up, again bringing the score to 5:5, but the American athletes won the final game.
Let us recall that earlier other Ukrainians successfully started the Wimbledon doubles tournament: Nadiya Kichenok, performing in a duet with Hungarian Timea Babos, the tandem Marta Kostyuk / Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Lyudmyla Kichenok in a duet with Elena Ostapenko from Latvia.
- Wimbledon Women’s Doubles First Round
Coco Gauff / Jessica Pegula (USA, 11) — Angelina Kalinina / Dayana Yastremska (Ukraine) — 2:1 (7:5, 6:7, 7:5)
Source: Sportarena
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