After a week of rain-drenched and rain delayed play, we're finally into the second week of Wimbledon. But after four matches of brilliant play, 16-year-old Mirra Andreeva's dream run at the All England Club has come to an unceremonious end.
Madison Keys, one of two American women left in the women's draw, defeated Russia's Andreeva 3-6, 7-6, 6-2 in a tough match that required Keys to play all three sets and pull off a comeback.
Andreeva almost won the match in two sets. She came out strong against Keys, taking advantage of Keys' slow start to smash her way to first set win in 32 minutes. In the second set, Andreeva jumped out to a 3-0 lead which soon went to 4-1. But then Keys came alive. She won three straight games to tie the score at 4-4 and then managed to force a tiebreak, which she won fairly quickly.
Keys was on a roll in the final set. She won three of the first four games, then cruised to the win having lost just two games. But there was a little wrinkle at the end that gave Keys match point. In the final game, Andreeva slipped and fell while trying to save a point, and her racket flew out of her hand. Normally that's not an issue, but Andreeva had thrown her racket in frustration earlier in the match and was given a warning by the chair umpire Louise Azemar Engzell.
So when the Engzell saw Andreeva release the racket again, she docked the young player a point — even though Andreeva insisted she slipped and the racket unintentionally fell out of her hand — which brought up match point for Keys.
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