Muguruza crashes out of Wimbledon

Second seed Garbine Muguruza is out of Wimbledon after losing in the second round in straight sets to Slovakia’s world number 124 Jana Cepelova.

The 22-year-old French Open winner, who lost last year’s final to Serena Williams, lost 6-3 6-2 on Court One.
It is a second big scalp for Cepelova in as many years at Wimbledon, after knocking out world number three Simona Halep in the first round in 2015.

The 23-year-old will face Czech 29th seed Lucie Safarova in the third round.

“I am so happy. I am very surprised, I did not expect two sets,” Cepelova told BBC Sport.

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“I have beaten some great players and I am very happy with this.”

Fifth seed Halep also reached the third round with a straight-sets win over Italy’s Francesca Schiavone.

The Romanian 24-year-old, a semi-finalist in 2014, needed little more than an hour to beat the 111th-ranked 36-year-old 6-1 6-1 and will meet Dutch 26th seed Kiki Bertens next after the 24-year-old beat Germany’s Mona Barthel.

American ninth seed Madison Keys, 21, also progressed on day four, beating Belgium’s Kirsten Flipkens 6-4 4-6 6-3.

She faces the winner of the match between Italy’s Sara Errani and France’s Alize Cornet.

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