LONDON – Garbine Muguruza insisted she wasn’t thinking about attempting to win a second consecutive Wimbledon title, was adamant she was not focusing on repeating as women’s singles champion.
“It doesn’t really matter,” she would say, “what happened in 2017.”
Well, it seems safe to say she’ll really want to forget what happened at the All England Club in 2018. Muguruza was stunned in the second round, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 by 47th-ranked Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium on Thursday, the latest upset in a series of them at the grass-court major tournament.
“It’s a little bit sad,” Muguruza said. “But today didn’t go my way.”
That’s become a familiar refrain for prominent women at this topsy-turvy Wimbledon. Only two of the top eight seeded women are still in the field after four days of competition.