LONDON : Elena Rybakina was very much aware that she would be treated as public enemy number one when she took on Katie Boulter - the sole Briton left in the Wimbledon singles draw - in what had been billed as a Centre Court blockbuster on Saturday.Armed with a menacing serve and steely resolve, Wimbledon
LONDON : Elena Rybakina was very much aware that she would be treated as public enemy number one when she took on Katie Boulter - the sole Briton left in the Wimbledon singles draw - in what had been billed as a Centre Court blockbuster on Saturday.
The two protagonists had been kept waiting till almost nine pm local time before they could enter the floodlit arena and when Boulter dropped only one point in her opening service game, expectations of an upset win were riding high. Such was the Kazakh third seed's dominance that the stunned crowd appeared to have lost their collective voice while Boulter simply lost her way.
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