In-form Hubert Harkaz suffered a first round exit from the men’s singles event at Wimbledon 2022 after a five-set loss to world number 37 Alejandro Davydovich Fokina on Monday. Harkaz, seeded 7th and last year’s semifinalist, lost 6-7, 4-6, 5-7, 6-2, 6-7 in a rain-stopped match in 3 hours 28 minutes.
Hukas, who defeated Roger Federer and Daniil Medvedev at The Championship last year, was in good form and won the Halle Open earlier this month by defeating world No. 1 Medvedev in the final.
Despite taking out 21 aces, Hárkaz was not able to withstand the intense performance of Spain’s Davydovich Fokina. Notably, it was the first match at Wimbledon to be decided by a 10-point tie-breaker in the final set since a grass-court Grand Slam had previously employed a 7-point tie-breaker in the final set.
Davydovich Fokina had the opportunity to end the match in the third set as he had 3 match points at 5-4. However, attempting to try a tweener, the Spaniard missed the first one, before Harkász also forced the next one, for the 4th set and eventually a decider.
Harkasz, who was 100 euro promised Whatever ace he hit to Ukraine’s relief at Wimbledon, he had the opportunity to end the match 5-4 in the final set, but Davydovich Fokina managed to break through and seal the match in his fifth match point. achieved.
Rudd, Nori Progress
Earlier in the day, third seed Casper Roode was a finalist of the French Open, and local hope Cameron Norie advanced to the men’s singles second round.
Britain’s Nori, seeded ninth, defeated Spain’s Pablo Andujar 6-0, 7-6(3), 6-3 in straight sets.
Meanwhile, Roode registered a 7-6 (1) 7-6 (9) 6-2 win over Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas.
Roode, who lost the final of the French Open earlier this month, was initially under pressure but claimed his victory through the third set.