#长文创作激励计划#这是本人原创译自WTA官网的原文，本人翻译的初心在于不丢老本行。 原文标题：Putintseva knocks out No.1 Swiatek in Wimbledon third round《温布尔登第3轮普丁塞娃淘汰No.1斯娃泰克》，作者来自Courtney Nguyen，WTA官网专栏作家，有节选。
World No.35 Putintseva, referred to as Putin, upset the world's No.1 Swiatek! In the third round of the grass court Grand Slam Wimbledon 2024 women's singles, on Saturday, Hasatstan's second sister Putin lost one set, and then staged a super reversal to eliminate Swiatek, the score: 3-6, 6-1, 6-2. In fact, two weeks ago, WTA 250 Birmingham champion Putin snapped an eight-match winning streak on grass, ending Swiatek's 21-match winning streak.
With this victory, Putin reached the last 16 of Wimbledon for the first time and the first round of 16 since the last eight of the 2020 US Open.
Putin: In some points, I played without fear. That's what I am, I can do it, I have to believe in myself 100 per cent, I have nothing to lose, no matter what kind of ball you play, you have to believe in yourself 100 per cent and go forward.
When the turning point came, I started playing really well. I think today I'm very happy, very happy, because she didn't lose anything; And I jumped at the chance.
In the fourth round, next Monday, Putin will face Ostapenko for a place in the quarter-finals. Ostapenko swept aside American beauty Pera 6-1, 6-3 earlier. Latvia's Otville reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 2018 and reached the fourth round of her first Grand Slam of the season in just 59 minutes. And in the first 3 games, Ao Fat Mei only lost 10 games.
Putin: Frankly, winning Birmingham gave me a lot of confidence that I was able to play really well on grass. Because my grass stats weren't good before. Let's put this data aside. I didn't win a single game on grass last year.
It's great to be in a Grand Slam tournament like Wimbledon, when you're winning five games in a row on grass. You're definitely going to feel much better about this kind of venue.
Putin gave world No. 1 Swiatek his fifth defeat of the season and Kazakhstan's second defeat for Swiatek: Rybakina won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart. At present, Putin has two wins against the current world No.1. The last time was in Birmingham in 2019, where she won against Naomi Osaka, then world No. 1.
Putin: I agreed throughout the tournament that I would also beat the world No. 1 on grass.
Putin hit 19 winning points + 15 unforced turnovers. Swiatek, on the other hand, scored 34 winning points but made 38 unforced errors. Of particular note was Putin's 15 unforced errors, including 11 in the first set. In other words, Putin only made four unforced errors in the last two sets, which was the key to her victory.
For Swiatek, grass is still a problem for her. She now has to wait another 12 months to prove her competitiveness on grass. In fact, after winning the French Open, Swiatek took a five-week break and almost parachuted into the Wimbledon Grand Slam. However, it does take time to learn to win on grass.
Swiatek packed her bags and left her third major of the season with a 45-5 record. And her No.1 in the WTA world ranking + No.1 in the WTA year-end finals rankings is almost untouched.
Now, after the first six months of the season, Swiatek has plenty of time to relax mentally + physically to prepare for her next tournament, which is also the tennis tournament she is looking forward to for the Paris Olympics.