Chichipas and Halef were eliminated in the first round, ‘extraordinary’, Kwon Soon-woo’s first match at dawn on the 31st
Serena Williams (605th, USA), who announced her retirement and participated in the ‘Last Dance’, passed the first round of the women’s singles competition at the US Open tennis tournament (total prize of 60 million dollars, regarding 80.8 billion won).
Williams defeated Danka Kovinic (80th, Montenegro) 2-0 (6-3 6-3) in the women’s singles first round on the 30th (Korean time) at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, USA. .
Williams, who is likely to retire following this tournament, won a major event for the first time in 14 months since the third round of the French Open in June last year.
After that, Williams was eliminated in the first round of Wimbledon last year, and did not participate in last year’s US Open, this year’s Australian Open, and this year’s French Open.
Williams, who suffered a bitter loss in the first round at Wimbledon this year, passed the first US Open gate, which had been strong so far, relatively lightly.
Williams has won the U.S. Open singles six times and has played in the U.S. Open since 2008, finishing in the quarterfinals or more each time.
Williams, born in 1981, will retire at the end of this year’s US Open.
Williams, who would have been the last game of his career if he had lost that day, hit nine serve aces and confirmed the victory in 1 hour and 39 minutes.
She recorded a top speed of 188km/h on the day of the serve and was tied for 6th among female players who played on the first day, showing that she is still not behind in power.
Williams’ opponent in the second round is World No. 2 Annette Contabate (Estonia).
This is Williams and Contabate’s first encounter.
Contabate, born in 1995, ranked second in the world, but did not perform well in major tournaments.
The 2020 Australian Open quarterfinals are the best.
At the U.S. Open, he reached the round of 16 in 2015 and 2020.
From the first day of the tournament, there were a lot of surprises.
Stefanos Tschipas (5th place, Greece) lost to Daniel Gallan (94th, Colombia) 1-3 (0-6 1-6 6-3 5-7) in the first round of men’s singles and was eliminated.
Also, Taylor Fritz (12th, USA) of the 10th seed was also 1-3 (7-6) to Brandon Holt (303, USA). 6-7 3-6 4-6) was caught.
In the women’s singles, Simona Halef (7th, Romania) lost 1-2 (2-6 6-0 4-6) to Dariya Snigur (124th, Ukraine) in the first round.
Last year’s men’s singles winner Danil Medvedev (1st place, Russia) defeated Stefan Kozlov (111th, USA) 3-0 (6-2 6-4 6-0) and cruised in the second round.
Medvedev’s opponent in the second round is Arthur Linderknessy (58th, France).
The first round match between Kwon Soon-woo (81st, Dangjin City Hall) and Fernando Verdasco (122nd, Spain) will start on Court 14 on the 31st at around 2 am Korean time.
/yunhap news