Batacazo in Wimbledon: At 36, CILIC eliminated a candidate for the title

Marin Cilic (83 ° of the ATP) surprised to overcome Jack Draper (4th and local) 6-4, 6-3, 1-6 and 6-4 in the second round of Wimbledon. In this way, another top ten said goodbye early from the third Grand Slam of the season.

Old are the rags. The Croatian gave triubuto to the famous phrase at 36 years after staying with a true triumph in the All England and thus assemble the local fans.

In the first round he had not had major inconveniences to overcome the Belgian Raphael Collignon (85 °), 6-3, 6-4 and 6-3 in an hour and 49 minutes of play.

The British, meanwhile, came from overcoming in the debut to Sebastián Báez (38 °). After a fall at the beginning of the second set, The Argentine had to retire shortly after When the result was in favor of the European 6-2, 6-2 and 2-1.

Cilic, ex -champion of the US Open in 2014, He managed to reach the final in Wimbledon in 2017 in what was his best performance in the London lawn so far (lost to Roger Federer). However, from that day, he could only be close to the third round in 2021 (his last participation in the contest) and the second round in 2018 and 2019.

The initial instances of the third Grand Slam of the season They have been devastating for the most important players of the male and female circuits. Alexander Zverev, Coco Gauff, Lorenzo Musetti, Holger Rune, Daniil Medvedev, Jessica Pegula, Qinwen Zheng and Paula Badosa They are some of the examples to mention.

With this result, the Croatian victory gave a new blow to the table although, on this occasion, the impact was double because it was a local player.

In the next round it has confirmed rival: the Spanish Jaume Munar (55 °), who comes from beating Fabian Marozsan (58 °) 6-2, 6-3 and 7-6 (9).

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