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Wimbledon 2022: Iga Swiatek is human: She lost to Cornet after 136 days, bid farewell to her 37-game winning streak.

Wimbledon 2022: Iga Swiatek is human: She lost to Cornet after 136 days, bid farewell to her 37-game winning streak.

And theThe women’s singles draw at Wimbledon is more open today than ever World number one and number one favorite Iga Swiatek was defeated by Alize Cornet 6-4, 6-2..

The French player, 37 on the WTA and 32, has been playing for free since it was announced in January. It was supposed to be his last season. That’s why he’s speaking so frankly out of court, when he decries the Covid issues covered in the latest edition of Roland Graros, and that’s why he’s speaking just as frankly with the racquet in hand.

Cornet finished last Saturday with an unbeaten streak for Swiatek that has continued since February 16 when he lost in the round of 16 in Doby to Jelena Ostapenko.

After 136 daysPole lost again and did so without discussion because her opponent was better from the first point to the last point. Not even the bandage the French woman had to put on, At the level of cdricpes of the left legHurricane stopped the minute winning shots he sent from the other side of the net.

IGA’s 37 consecutive victories are already history in the open eraequaling the mark of Martina Hingis, but with four players with better records: Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Margaret Court and Chris Evert.

Cornet’s table opens and he has a license to keep dreaming because his next opponent will be Australian Agla Tomlajnovic. Currently, he equals the second round of 2014, his best result in the third major on the calendar.

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