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The famous Wimbledon tennis championship this year is living through to it's top form as World Number one women player Simona Halep has crashed out of the tournament.
Simona Halep of Romania plays Su-Wei Hsieh of Taiwan in their third-round match during Wimbledon.
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This is fresh from winning her first Grand Slam trophy at the French Open. Halep squandered a 5-2 lead in the third set, and had one match point before surrendering to 48th-ranked Hsieh Su-Wei of Taipei, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 in a third-round encounter on Saturday.
“It was really hard on grass court to do better,” Halep said.“The difficulty was bigger today because of her game. She played really well.”
Only seventh-seed Karolina Pliskova has survived from the top eight to journey into the second week.The other members of the top eight to fall: second-seed Caroline Wozniacki, third-seed and defending champion Garbine Muguruza, fourth-seed Sloane Stephens, fifth-seed Elina Svitolina, sixth-seed Caroline Garcia and eighth-seed Petra Kvitova.
“Definitely I gave everything I had on the game side,” Halep said. “I was fighting till the end for every ball. I was just too negative to myself, talking too much. I’m just realistic and honest with myself. I accept that it was an unprofessional attitude from me.”
In previous visits here, Halep reached the 2014 semifinal, and the 2016 and ’17 quarterfinals.
Hsieh’s beaten three top 10 players in her career, and all of those victories took place at a Grand Slam tournament. She defeated eighth-ranked Johanna Kontaat the 2017 French Open and third-ranked Garbine Muguruza at the 2018 Australian Open.
Hsieh has now advanced into the fourth round at a Grand Slam for the third time in her career. She will play Dominka Cibulkova, who upset 15th-seed Elise Mertens 6-2, 6-2.
Cibulkova was meant to be the 32nd seeded player at Wimbledon, but was bumped out of that placement when the Wimbledon seeding committee decided to seed 181st-ranked Serena Williams, returning from maternity leave, in the 25th position.Williams now has to be considered a major contender to win it all.
After all, she is a seven-time champion here with a love for playing on the grass. And the reason she has returned to the game is to firmly establish her reputation as the greatest of all-time. Two more Grand Slam titles would give her 25, the most of any player, man or woman.
Courtesy USA today
