Elena Rybakina, the 2022 champion and No.4 seed, advanced to the quarterfinals of Wimbledon on Monday after No.17 seed Anna Kalinskaya retired from their fourth-round match on Centre Court. Rybakina led 6-4, 3-0 when Kalinskaya stopped play after 53 minutes.
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Kazakhstan’s Rybakina is the highest-ranked player remaining in the draw, and the only player left in the field who has previously won the Wimbledon title.
Rybakina continues to increase her strong win-loss record at the grass-court major, where she is 18-2 lifetime and has made the quarterfinals for the last three years. After defeating Ons Jabeur in the 2022 final, she fell to Jabeur in last year’s quarterfinals.
Rybakina’s victory pushes her winning percentage at Wimbledon to 90 percent. She is the third player in the Open Era to register a career win rate of 90 percent in the Wimbledon ladies’ singles draw, joining Ann Jones and Stefanie Graf.
On Monday, Kalinskaya started brilliantly, taking the first point after a terrific all-court rally and eventually breaking Rybakina at love. But from 3-1 down, Rybakina reeled off the next five games in a row with her power plays.
Kalinskaya received a medical time-out at 4-3 in the first set, and she ultimately lost the last eight games of the match before retiring. Kalinskaya started this year 7-0 against Top 10 players, but she was forced to cut her latest Top 10 matchup short.
Next up for Rybakina will be the winner of the fourth-round match between No.21 seed Elina Svitolina and Wang Xinyu.
More to come…
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