Jessica Pegula crashes out in second-round upset at All England Club.
Ben Shelton won his second straight five-set match on Court 18 to advance to the third round Thursday. WIMBLEDON, England — Ben Shelton and Taylor Fritz held things down for the American men on Independence Day, while fifth-ranked Jessica Pegula was upset by Wang Xinyu in the second round.
The Floridian said he thrives in the high-intensity moments of tiebreakers, and it showed Thursday. Harris served an ace to make it 7-6 in the final-set tiebreaker before unraveling, and Shelton kept cool to win four consecutive points and take the match after 3 hours 49 minutes.The lefty attributes his confidence in tiebreakers to being able to clear his mind in pressure moments, thanks to a pre-set plan not dissimilar to Novak Djokovic’s approach.
“I’m like, ‘Dude, you know what you said. You know what you said,’” Fritz said. “Don’t disrespect me before the match and then expect me to be all nice after the match. That’s not how it works.”Elsewhere at the All England Club, top-ranked Iga Swiatek defeated Croatia’s Petra Martic, 6-4, 6-3, to set up a third-round match with the unseeded Yulia Putintseva. The Polish champion is looking to back up her quarterfinal appearance last year, which is as far as she’s made it at Wimbledon.
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