Jessica Pegula loved a type of scarcely plausible days at Wimbledon as her racket oozed winners left, proper and centre in a 6-1, 6-3 fourth-round destruction of luckless Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko.
Tsurenko was left slapping her thighs and speaking animatedly into her racket however it doesn’t matter what she tried, it appeared like her sport had slipped right into a terminal coma.
Pegula took full benefit of her opponent’s woes as she walloped thunderous winners from the baseline to streak right into a 5-0 lead in 18 blinding minutes.
Perhaps nonetheless feeling the results of the mammoth effort she put into overcoming Ana Bogdan within the earlier spherical, when Tsurenko received the longest girls’s singles tiebreak (20-18 within the third set) at a slam within the Open Era, the Ukrainian may do little to cease the on-fire Pegula’s cost.
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Tsurenko was fortunate to not be utterly worn out from the opening set because the American fourth seed missed a set level within the sixth sport.
That blip allowed Tsurenko to lastly get a look-in as she registered her title on the scoreboard, incomes her a spherical of sympathetic applause from the Court One crowd.
That respite, nevertheless, was transient as Pegula went on one other three-game successful spree to take a 6-1 2-0 lead.
The mounting errors from Tsurenko left her trailing 5-1 within the second set too and whereas she managed to interrupt Pegula when the American was serving for a spot within the quarter-finals two video games later, it appeared her physique had confronted sufficient punishment for the day.
After saving two match factors, the 34-year-old winced in ache on the baseline and wasted little time in eradicating her proper shoe and sock, revealing a bloody underfoot blister.
The on-court intervention from the coach solely delayed the inevitable as two factors later Pegula was celebrating with a clenched fist as she booked a last-eight showdown with Marketa Vondrousova.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com