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WIMBLEDON, England – Iga Swiatek, the world number 1 and the top seed at Wimbledon, did something she did not do for more than four months on Saturday. She lost a tennis match.
Swiatek, the 21-year-old two-time Grand Slam champion from Poland, lost to veteran Frenchman Alizé Cornet 6-4, 6-2, ending her winning streak at 37 matches, one of the longest in modern women’s tennis. .
However, Swiatek did not lose the match as much as Cornet emphatically even won it.
Cornet played with a strap on her left thigh and came out hard, matching Swiatek’s strength and exploiting the Polish champion’s discomfort on grass.
After losing the first set, Swiatek seemed to fix things quickly and took a 2-0 lead. But Cornet scaled down six consecutive games with Swiatek losing the last point with a lead in the middle of the net.