NEW YORK (Reuters) – Top seed Karolina Pliskova suffered a shock 6-1 7-6(2) loss to Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia in the second round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday.
Pliskova, a former world number one, had no answer to the power of Garcia who fired 30 winners to the Czech’s 13.
Pliskova went 5-0 down in the opening set and although she fought back in the second, Garcia dominated the tiebreak to advance.
Garcia will face American Jennifer Brady in the next round.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)
