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Gauff Wins Wimbledon Opener in 54 Minutes, Ends Grass Losing Streak
No. 7 seed Coco Gauff defeated Tamara Korpatsch 6-2, 6-1 on Monday in her fastest Wimbledon match. Aryna Sabalenka also advanced quickly while McCartney Kessler recorded a rare double-bagel.
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No. 7 Coco Gauff defeated Tamara Korpatsch 6-2, 6-1 on Monday at Wimbledon in 54 minutes, her fastest win at the grass-court major, ESPN reported. The victory ended a four-match losing streak on grass and marked Gauff's first win on the surface since she beat Sonay Kartal in the third round at Wimbledon last year.
She won 88 percent of first-serve points, her second-highest rate at the tournament, and dropped only three games, tying her fewest at Wimbledon. Gauff will next face the winner of Solana Sierra against Anna Bondar. She holds a 2-0 record against Sierra and has never played Bondar.
Aryna Sabalenka needed 64 minutes to beat Teodora Kostovic 6-2, 6-3, the second-fastest opening-round match of her Wimbledon career, ESPN reported. Sabalenka has now won 23 consecutive first-round matches at majors dating to the 2020 U.S. Open.
Her last opening-round loss at a major came at the 2020 Australian Open. McCartney Kessler defeated Oleksandra Oliynykova to become the first unseeded woman to record a double-bagel at Wimbledon since Mary Pierce in 2003. Sabalenka defeated Kessler at Indian Wells in 2025.
In other first-round matches, Naomi Osaka defeated Elsa Jacquemot 6-1, 7-5 while wearing a flowing kimono for her walk-on. Mirra Andreeva beat Magda Linette 7-5, 6-4, and Mananchaya Sawangkaew defeated Maja Chwalinska 2-6, 7-5, 6-2.
