Wimbledon: Madison Keys becomes latest top-seed to exit, Naomi Osaka bows out

Australian Open champion Madison Keys joined the wide exodus of apical seeds astatine Wimbledon connected Friday arsenic Carlos Alcaraz prepared to resume his quest for a 3rd consecutive title.Keys' 6-3, 6-3 decision by Germany's Laura Siegemund means lone satellite fig 1 Aryna Sabalenka is inactive live astatine the All England Club retired of the apical six women's seeds.

Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Jasmine Paolini and Zheng Qinwen had already fallen by the wayside.On the men's side, fractional of the top-10 seeds person gone, though defending champion Alcaraz and satellite fig 1 Jannik Sinner are inactive standing.US sixth effect Keys had won 13 of her 14 Grand Slam matches this year, but made 31 unforced errors successful a lacklustre show connected the writer against 37-year-old Siegemund, ranked 104 successful the world.

Sabalenka volition beryllium hopeless to subordinate the inclination aboriginal connected Centre Court erstwhile she faces a imaginable tricky brushwood against erstwhile US Open champion Emma Raducanu successful the 3rd round.

In aboriginal third-round enactment astatine the All England Club, Japan's four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka mislaid successful 3 sets to Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, ranked 50th successful the world. Osaka has not reached the 4th circular of a Grand Slam since she won the Australian Open successful 2021 but is inactive bare for success.

"I consciousness similar portion I inactive person the accidental to effort to bash it, I privation to, adjacent though I get precise upset erstwhile I lose, but I deliberation that's my competitory nature. That's besides the younger sister syndrome," she said.

It took US men's 10th effect Ben Shelton conscionable 71 seconds to implicit his second-round match, sealing a 6-2, 7-5, 6-4 triumph against Australia's Rinky Hijikata aft the lucifer was halted connected Thursday owed to failing light.