LONDON — After putting one shot into the net, Iga Swiatek muttered to herself. After another point went awry, she placed her hand over her mouth. Generally, she looked as flustered as she ever does on a tennis court.
Once again, she went from unbeatable on the French Open’s red clay to underwhelming on Wimbledon’s green grass.
Swiatek, a 23-year-old from Poland, is a five-time Grand Slam champion, including four titles at Roland Garros — most recently last month — and one on the hard courts at the US Open. She has talked about looking forward to improving on grass, but she decided to withdraw last month from the only tuneup event that was originally on her schedule before Wimbledon.On the contrary, Swiatek described herself as not giving herself enough of a chance to rest after the French Open.
Seven-time champion Novak Djokovic wrapped up the day’s action at Centre Court by coming back from an uneven opening set to defeat Alexei Popyrin, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 . In a match suspended after five games Friday, No. 14 Ben Shelton got past Denis Shapovalov 6-7 , 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, the 21-year-old American’s third consecutive five-setter. In all, there have been 34 matches that went five sets, the most through three rounds at any Grand Slam tournament in the Open era, which began in 1968.
Jordan Spieth played early and at one point was tied for the lead — the leaders had not even reached the practice range at that point — and wound up with a 63. By the end of the day, he made up only one stroke on the lead. Spieth was seven shots behind in a tie for 12th.
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