Berretini upsets World No 15 J Sock in Wimbledon 1st round

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Patna : World No 81 in ATP rankings Matteo Berretini, 22, Italy, stunned World No 15 Jack Sock, 25, USA, in the first round of Wimbledon tennis champonship 2018. Berretini beat Sock in afive-set thriller 6-7, 6-7, 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 to enter the second round of the tournament.

Berretini fired 10 Aces in the match to 6 by Sock. Sock committed 6 double faults to 4 by Berretini.  Berretini won 6 break points compared to 2 by Jack Sock. Berretini won 5 games in a row to 3 by Sock.

Three time Wimbledon Champion and winner of 12 Grand Slam titles Novak Djokovic, 31, Serbia, also entered the second round defeating World No 57 Tennys Sandgren, USA, 6-3, 6-1, 6-2. Djokovic, the World No 21, did not serve any Ace in the match compared to 5 by Sandgren. Sandgren committed 4 double faults to two by Djokovic. Sandgren had reached quarter-finals of Australian Open 2018.

Djokovic won 7 break points compared to just 1 by Sandgren. Djokovic’s winning percentage on both his first and second serve was much better than that of his rival. Djokovic had won Wimbledon singles title in 2011, 2014, and 2015.

In the women’s section, 2004 Wimbledon Champion and 24th seed Maria Sharapova, 31, Russia, lost in the first round to World No 102 Vitalia Diatchenko, 27, Russia, 7-6, 6-7, 4-6 in a major upset. Sharapova served 10 Aces in the match to just 1 by Diatchenko. But, she also committed 11 double faults compared to 9 by her rival. Diatchenko won 7 break points to 6 by Sharapova, the World No 22.