{"id":359939,"date":"2024-01-15T01:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T02:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=359939"},"modified":"2024-01-15T03:01:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T03:01:55","slug":"meek-wimbledon-champ-stunned-by-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=359939","title":{"rendered":"'Meek' Wimbledon champ stunned by qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark\u00e9ta Vondrou\u0161ov\u00e1<\/a> has been eliminated from the Australian Open<\/a> in a major upset, going down to qualifier Dayana Yastremska in straight sets on Monday.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old was rated among the leading chances at Melbourne Park, but will be packing her bags far earlier than anyone anticipated following a surprise 6-1, 6-2 defeat.<\/p>\n

Last year's Wimbledon<\/a> champion had her shoulder heavily taped up for the match and was described as "meek" during the Nine broadcast by the commentators – but nobody could have expected such a poor display from the seventh seed.<\/p>\n

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Yastremska was ranked 93rd in the WTA heading into the tournament\ufeff, but produced arguably the biggest win of her career at John Cain Arena.<\/p>\n

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"I think that's my personality … in life, I'm also pretty aggressive," she said post-match during the Nine broadcast.<\/p>\n

"I played like that since I was very small. I have a lot of mistakes as well – but when you play it's aggressive, it's fine."<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old had tributes to Ukraine on her racquet and gear, and was emotional during her post-match address regarding the situation in her home country.<\/p>\n

She also paid tribute to those in Ukraine in emotional scenes post-match.<\/p>\n

"I'm very proud of Ukraine, the people, the warriors," Yastremska said.<\/p>\n

"Just before my first match of the year, a rocket arrived on my grandma's house. We need to remember about it and give as much support as possible."<\/p>\n

Vondrou\u0161ov\u00e1 won Wimbledon last year, defeating Ons Jabeur in the final to become the first unseeded ladies' singles champion in the Open Era.<\/p>\n

But her performances Down Under in recent years have betrayed her credentials as a major winner, with her career-best finish in Melbourne coming in the form of a semi-final loss in 2019.<\/p>\n

She had withdrawn from the Adelaide International last week, citing a hip injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark\u00e9ta Vondrou\u0161ov\u00e1 has been eliminated from the Australian Open in a major upset, going down to qualifier Dayana Yastremska in straight sets on Monday. The […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":359941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359942,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359939\/revisions\/359942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/359941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}