What went wrong for Coco Gauff at Wimbledon?

WIMBLEDON, England -- Coco Gauff suffered a daze decision successful the archetypal circular astatine Wimbledon connected Tuesday, her earliest exit astatine a Grand Slam since losing successful circular 1 astatine Wimbledon 2 years ago. The champion astatine Roland Garros past month, the American deed 9 treble faults and struggled passim arsenic she mislaid 7-6 (3), 6-1 to Dayana Yastremska, the satellite No. 42, from Ukraine.

Here's what went wrong.

Gauff's service broke down

Gauff's service has ever been susceptible but usually, she's capable to find a mode done and find a mode to woody with things erstwhile they interruption down. On Tuesday, adjacent though the extortion was closed, which took distant immoderate contented with the elements, Gauff struggled for rhythm.

The 2nd serve, successful particular, broke down and for once, it weighed excessively heavy connected her shoulders. With Yastremska lasting choky to the baseline, the unit was ramped up. In total, Gauff deed 9 treble faults and won conscionable 44 percent of points connected her 2nd serve. Landing conscionable 45% of her archetypal serves near her vulnerable, and Yastremska took afloat advantage.

Gauff seemed mentally tired

Winning the French Open past period intelligibly took a batch retired of Gauff. The American had to enactment enormously hard to get done the gully successful Paris, and the last was particularly arduous, erstwhile the upwind made beingness pugnacious for some her and Aryna Sabalenka.

Ideally aft winning a Grand Slam title, a interruption would beryllium the close happening to do, but Gauff had small clip to recover, mentally. She mislaid her lone warm-up lucifer successful Berlin -- against an hostile who deed level and hard, she recovered herself wanting. The information that she lone deed six winners tells its ain story. The combat wasn't there.

"I consciousness similar mentally I was a small spot overwhelmed with everything that came afterwards, truthful I didn't consciousness similar I had capable clip to observe and besides get backmost into it," Gauff said connected Tuesday aft the match. "But it's the archetypal clip successful this acquisition of coming disconnected a triumph and having to play Wimbledon. I decidedly learned a batch of what I would and would not bash again."

Yastremska is astir arsenic pugnacious an hostile arsenic Gauff could person faced

Ranked No. 42, Yastremska was not acold disconnected a seeded spot. The Ukrainian reached the last successful Nottingham and made the quarters successful Eastbourne. Though her champion effort astatine Wimbledon successful the past was a last-16 showing successful 2019, she is simply a prime subordinate who made the semifinals successful Australia a mates of years ago.

Despite 25 unforced errors, she slammed 16 winners, "I deliberation it was a large lucifer today, I was truly connected fire," she said. "I anticipation the roadworthy volition continue, and it is simply a pleasance to beryllium here."

Gauff agreed. "She played great. I saw the gully and knew it would beryllium a pugnacious lucifer for me. I played her connected clay [in April], and I deliberation that aboveground suits maine a small better. It was inactive a pugnacious three-setter [then]. Yeah, I knew contiguous would beryllium tough."