Pliskova to be No 1 for 1st time
Karolina Pliskova will rise to No 1 in the WTA rankings for the first time next week despite a second-round loss at Wimbledon — and no Grand Slam titles. The Czech was assured of moving up two places from No 3 when the woman who currently is No 2, Simona Halep, was beaten in the Wimbledon quarterfinals on Tuesday. Pliskova will become the 23rd woman to spend time at No 1. Angelique Kerber will relinquish the top spot after exiting in the fourth round at the All England Club a year after making it to the final. Kerber first got to No 1 beating Pliskova in the Final of US Open. Halep would have been the new rankings leader if she had been able to get to the Wimbledon semifinals.
CoCo upset with a decision
CoCo Vandeweghe argued with chair umpire Kelly Thomson about whether a point in her Wimbledon quarterfinal loss should have been replayed because a line judge's call was distracting. Two points after the exchange, the match was over. The 24th-seed told Thomson her explanation was "baloney" and said: "It is a distraction on the play. Have you ever played tennisIJ" Vandeweghe also said to the official: "How are you that wrongIJ" In her news conference after the 6-3, 6-3 loss to Magdalena Rybarikova, Vandeweghe said: "If someone yells out in the middle of a swing, that's a hindrance call, and usually you replay the point."
Rybarikova in Maiden semifinal
Ranked 87th and unseeded at Wimbledon, Magdalena Rybarikova is making quite a run at the grass-court major. The 28-year-old Slovak reached the semifinals at the All England Club on Tuesday. "I just recently played ITFs in Surbiton. I was thinking that I was nervous more there than today. I have no idea how come I was that calm. Sometimes I can get really nervous and really tight. But this match I was quite positive." Rybarikova is the lowest ranked player to make it to the Wimbledon semifinals since Zheng Jie did it in 2008 when she was ranked No 133. She had never before even played in the second week of a major tournament and is the first Slovakian woman to reach the semifinals at the Big W.
Coaching during a matchIJ
Garbine Muguruza said she was not being coached by her team during Tuesday's 6-3, 6-4 quarterfinal victory at Wimbledon. "It was pretty clear because we all speak Spanish here. She was talking to her all the time," Svetlana Kuznetsova said. "It's her physio. I mean, I know she acts like this all the time. I don't think it's appropriate, but OK, I was focused on my game." Muguruza said it was nothing. "They were cheering for me, I know. She (Kuznetsova) speaks Spanish. The coach is Spanish. They could perfectly understand everything they were saying."