Tatjana Maria is the third German tennis player to reach the second round of the Wimbledon lawn classic. The 34-year-old from Bad Saulgau defeated the Australian qualifier Astra Sharma 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4 and provided the first German sense of achievement on Tuesday.
Andrea Petkovic and the Wimbledon debutants Nastasja Schunk, Tamara Korpatsch and Daniel Altmaier, on the other hand, were eliminated right at the start. Maria had to put in an extra shift in her first round game. The game of the mother of two was interrupted when the score was 1: 1 on Monday due to darkness, and she managed the decisive break to 4: 3 in the third round. “Wimbledon is my favorite Grand Slam and it’s the first Grand Slam match I’ve won with both daughters. That’s something special,” enthused Maria. Most recently, she won a game at Wimbledon in 2018.
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Petkovic lost 4:6, 3:6 against Viktorija Golubic from Switzerland. The 34-year-old from Darmstadt gave up the serve four times on the lawn she didn’t love much and made too many minor mistakes throughout the game.
In her Wimbledon debut, the 18-year-old qualifier Schunk clearly lost to the Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu 4: 6, 2: 6. Tamara Korpatsch was also unable to continue her good performance from Monday evening and lost to Briton Heather Watson 7: 6 (9: 7), 5: 7, 2: 6.