Wimbledon semi-finalist Tatjana Maria has lost her first match on the WTA tour since the All England Club coup.
The 34-year-old lost clearly 2: 6, 5: 7 in her first round match to the Chinese Wang Xiyu at the hard court tournament in Washington. Maria gave up her first two service games in the first set, in the second round Wang broke the German to make it 6:5.
The mother of two missed the opportunity to work her way up from 101st place in the world rankings about a month after the greatest success of her career. Most recently, Maria surprisingly did not play her game against Frenchwoman Leolia Jeanjean at the clay court tournament in Lausanne in mid-July.
Andrea Petkovic had previously returned to the tournament well. After her injury-related quarter-finals in Hamburg, she beat the number eight seeded Dane Clara Tauson 6: 2, 6: 2 and meets Rebecca Marino in the round of 16.