Simona Halep and Eugenie Bouchard crash out of Wimbledon first round

Sport360 staff 21:56 30/06/2015
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  • Halep (l) was a surprise 1st round victim.

    Eugenie Bouchard was knocked out in the first round at Wimbledon as one of the biggest stars of the grand slam 12 months ago became the first big-name casualty of this year’s tournament.

    Canadian Bouchard marched through to the 2014 final, where Petra Kvitova denied her the title, but has endured a terrible season on tour and the Wimbledon exit adds to her troubles.

    She lost 7-6 (7/3) 6-4 to China’s Duan Ying-Ying on Court Three, sealing her own fate by cracking a forehand into the net.

    Elsewhere in the women’s draw, third-seeded Romanian Simona Halep was also on the wrong end of a shock, losing in the first round 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 to Jana Cepelova of Slovakia.

    Halep reached the semi-finals 12 months ago, just a month after finishing runner-up at the French Open.

    The 22-year-old Cepelova, ranked 106 in the world, had won only one match on the tour all year before Tuesday.

    She goes on to face another Romanian, Monica Niculescu, for a place in the last 32.

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