National athlete Zeynep Sönmez, Wimbledon Tennis Tournament Chinese rival Xinyu Wang 2-0 defeated the 3rd round and went down in history.
Zeynep, who ranked 88th in the world ranking in the third Grand Slam organization of the season in London, England, was faced with Wang on the 2nd round.
23 -year -old national athlete who started the match by breaking the service, lost the second game. Zeynep fell 4-1 in a row by giving 4 games to his opponent, then took 3 games in a row and made the situation on the set 4-4. 11. The national tennis player who broke the service once again in the game did not make mistakes in his own service and won the set 7-5 and went ahead 1-0.
In the second set, tennis players could not break the equality in the first 10 games they broke once: 5-5. Zeynep Sönmez, 11. The game seized the service breaking score of 6-5 by evaluating the good evaluation. 12. Zeynep won the set 7-5 by taking the game, 2-0 victory left the court and the name of the 3rd round.
Zeynep Sönmez, World number 69 Dutch Suzan Lamens and the world number 17 number Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova will be played between the winner of the match will be played in the 3rd round.
🇹🇷 Zeynep Sönmez became the first Turkish athlete to rise to the third round after 75 years in Grand Slam tournaments. 🎾 Before Zeynep, the last Turkish tennis player in the Grand Islam in the Grand Slam was Bahtiye Musluoğlu in women in 1950 French Open.pic.twitter.com/yqoonbudhn https://t.co/hklupnnb21
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