Harmony Tan

Playing her first competitive singles match in a year, seven-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams lost 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) against Harmony Tan.

That seemed to give Williams a shot of energy and confidence, and she rode it all the way to a 3-1 lead in the deciding set. Williams waved to the crowd as she left the court, and now the question is whether it's her final goodbye to Wimbledon and the sport. After holding serve to open the second, Williams broke Tan in a 20-minute game that featured seven break points before she finally closed it out. When Williams announced that she had taken a wildcard entry into Wimbledon, it certainly provided a reason for her fans and the entire tennis world to get excited. Williams led 4-2 in the first set but mostly struggled to answer those questions from her opponent and never settled into a comfortable rhythm. Despite falling behind in the third set, Tan rallied and ultimately out-lasted Williams for a dramatic 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 victory after 3 hours and 10 minutes.

Serena Williams was unable to summon the old magic as her Wimbledon return ended in a first-round defeat to little-known Frenchwoman Harmony Tan on Centre ...

Available to download now on - iPhone & iPad and Android The 42-year-old American is a five-time singles champion at the All England Club and won the doubles with her sister Serena on six occasions but she last played on the WTA Tour in August last year and has since been sidelined with a leg injury. The 18-year-old American is the youngest player in the singles draw and after her runner-up finish at the French Open this month, many are tipping her to go all the way at the All England Club.

Tan had never advanced past qualifying at Wimbledon before this year. She's now gotten past one of the greatest of all time.

Tennis Majors reported that she continued to pursue her education over the years. She would not appear in another Grand Slam singles tournament until the 2018 U.S. Open, where she was also eliminated in the first round. It also said she has been surfing for the past 15 years. It matches the farthest she has advanced in any Grand Slam singles event. The closest she had gotten to the world's oldest tennis tournament was the second round of 2021 women's singles qualifying, where she was eliminated. She finally earned a spot in the main draw in 2022.

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Where is Harmony Tan from? Tan is a 24-year-old tennis player from France, who is ranked No. 115 in the world. Who is Harmony Tan's ...

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Harmony Taan Williams' wild-card status for the tournament was a reminder of how little competitive tennis she has played recently. Prior to Wimbledon, her.

https://t.co/rfIXed4f3q #CentreCourt100 pic.twitter.com/IQst8AzXxv And fair play to Harmony Tan, too - what a way to introduce yourself to #Wimbledon. Can't take my eyes off this! The dream is over, but #Wimbledon came alive tonight. Commentator suggesting it's the best 1st round match in #Wimbledon history. That match just taught me I’m not ready for @serenawilliams to hang up her racket, not even close.

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Tan, on the other hand, defeated the likes of Ana Bogdan and Lucia Bronzetti recently on her way to reaching the final of the WTA 125K event. While her pedigree in the competition is second to none, Williams has not played much top-level tennis in the build-up to Wimbledon 2022. Nonetheless, there is an immense buzz over her return to the iconic Centre Court where she has won seven Wimbledon titles so far in her illustrious career.

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A double fault from Tan immediately sets up another but she corrects her mistake with a huge serve to get back to deuce. Williams get to break point but loses two points in a row and it's suddenly set point for the world No 115. Williams refuses to go down without a fight and forces an error from Tan as the Frenchwoman attempts to serve out the set. Firing a huge return at her opponent, she sends another booming forehand down the court that Tan can't get anything on. She expertly saves it with her third ace but Tan plays a perfect lob to set up another break point. Her fourth break point is saved by a Tan winner once again and Williams can't capitalise on a second serve as he return goes wide to give her opponent a game point. But 40-year-old quickly pressures the Frenchwoman's serve with an overhead winner to lead 15-30. She chases down another Tan drop shot but the umpire calls "not up". It's a third chance for the American after an error from Tan but Williams is left looking bewildered as it's saved by a winner. Williams completes an easy hold to extend her lead in this second set to 5-0 with the comeback well and truly on. The Centre Court crowd cheers as the lights are turned off for this match to continue into the evening. The American legend only recently returned after 12 months out and is playing in her first Grand Slam since her unfortunate exit at Wimbledon last time around.

Williams, a seven-time Wimbledon champion, came within one game beating Tan. After going down 3-4 in the third set, she won the next two games. Williams got to ...

Williams came out swinging in the first-to-10 tiebreaker, taking a 4-0 lead. Williams countered and even fended off a matchup point to force a third-set tiebreaker. Williams, a seven-time Wimbledon champion, came within one game beating Tan. After going down 3-4 in the third set, she won the next two games.

The loss is just the second time Williams has been beaten in the first round of a Grand Slam tournament.

When I was young, I was watching her so many times on the TV," Tan said. It was just the third time Williams failed to advance past the first round of a Grand Slam -- and just her second loss. Tan wasn't ready to give up and rallied back to take a 5-4 lead and once again make it a close competition, before shutting the door on the tennis legend. Once it got to the tie breaker, Williams started out strong and took a 4-0 advantage. "It was definitely a very long battle and fight," she said during the post-match press conference. Williams put on quite the fight against Harmony Tan, but after three hours and 11 minutes, the veteran had to accept an early exit at The Championships.

Although Harmony Tan was "scared" to take on Serena Williams, the French tennis player out-lasted Williams for the biggest win of her career.

"When I saw the draw, I was really scared because it's Serena Williams," Tan recalled. Far from a powerful hitter, Tan neutralized Williams' power with an array of drop shots, slices and short angles. "(Williams is) a superstar and when I was young, watching her so many times on the TV. For my first Wimbledon… wow." Tan managed to draw 53 unforced errors from Williams, many of them on spinning balls close to the net that she had to hit either on the full run or while trying to change directions. It marked Williams' first competitive singles match in a year and Tan's first-ever Wimbledon match. "Thank you Nathalie for being with me."

Tan, 24, had merely hoped to take a game or two off Williams, a seven-time Wimbledon singles champion. Instead, she won and has a chance to reach the third ...

Tauziat, the 1998 Wimbledon women’s singles runner-up, who was ranked as high as No. 3 in the world, faced Williams three times, beating her once at the Paris Open final in 2000. The two faced each other earlier this year in Monterrey, Mexico, with Tan losing, 6-2, 6-2. Tan, playing in her first Wimbledon, had not advanced further than the second round in any of her six previous appearances at a major. Tan, a Paris native with Cambodian and Vietnamese parents, said she watched Williams often while growing up. Tan, 24, proved Williams’s words true, spoiling her return to tennis and quest for a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title. Tan, 24, had merely hoped to take a game or two off Williams, a seven-time Wimbledon singles champion.

Seven-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams suffered just her third first-round loss at a Grand Slam as she fell to Frenchwoman Harmony Tan.

I can’t even imagine how tonight would’ve turned out for her if Harmony Tan didn’t win..lol.” 😅 she didn’t stop cheering harmony on, even when it seemed like all hopes were lost. “Wonderful stuff, loved it”. “Oh my, Harmony Tan is victorious over Serena Williams at Wimbledon in an amazingly crazy match and the cute little kid in Harmony’s support team becomes an immediate iconic gif,” read another Twitter post. Oh my, Harmony Tan is victorious over Serena Williams at Wimbledon in an amazingly crazy match and the cute little kid in Harmony’s support team becomes an immediate iconic gif. One Twitter user posted: “I want someone to cheer for me like the little kid in Harmony Tan’s box”, while another wrote: “The kid bringing the hype in Harmony Tan’s player box 👏👏 😂”.

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Harmony Tan secured the best win of her career as she beat Serena Williams on Centre Court at Wimbledon on Tuesday night. However, she has seriously upset ...

After beating Williams in round one, Tan said: "It's a dream because, you know, I saw Serena on the TV when I was young. "Maybe tomorrow I could have gave more," she explained. I mean, I was scared when I was on the court, but really happy to be there." The match finished at 10.30pm and Tan was due to be in doubles action on Wednesday. "My partner Harmony Tan retire (sic) from our doubles just today in the morning. Harmony Tan secured the best win of her career as she beat Serena Williams on Centre Court at Wimbledon on Tuesday night.

Hours after knocking Serena Williams in a late-night Centre Court epic, France's Harmony Tan pulled out of the women's doubles due to a thigh injury -- and ...

"If you're broken after a three-hour match the day before, you can't play professional," Korpatsch added. "Unfortunately my doubles partner H. Tan retired from our doubles today. I didn't deserve that."

Tamara Korpatsch has said that she is "very angry" after her doubles partner Harmony Tan pulled out ahead of their opening match at Wimbledon.

"When I saw the draw I was really scared. Sorry, but I've played 6:33h in one day and played a singles match [the] next day. Just wow. She asked me before the tournament if we wanna play doubles and I said yes, I didn’t ask her, she asked me! Let me wait here one hour before the match start. “She just texted me this morning.

Harmony Tan drops out of Wimbledon doubles after upsetting Serena Williams, and partner Tamara Korpatsch is salty.

The war in Ukraine: As the tournament gets underway, Wimbledon’s Russia and Belarus ban leaves 16 of the top 100 on the outside. She asked me before the tournament if we wanna play doubles and I said yes, I did’ntask her, she asked me! You need to be back at the All England Club the next morning to prepare for a doubles match that you probably are not going to win. Korpatsch also questioned Tan’s fortitude, saying a three-hour match the day before is no excuse to pull out. Let’s say you’re the world’s 115th-ranked women’s singles player, and you just spent 3 hours 11 minutes beating arguably the greatest tennis player of all time on Centre Court at Wimbledon in a match that ended at 10:36 p.m. local time. If you’re Harmony Tan, you follow your first-round singles win over seven-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams on Monday by withdrawing from the doubles competition, citing a thigh injury.

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She asked me before the tournament if we wanna play doubles and I said yes. I’m very sad, disappointed and also very angry that I can’t play my first doubles Grand Slam. Play started on Tuesday as Minnen won the first set but the two-time Grand Slam champion couldn't do anything right om Wednesday as she was on the receiving end of a bagel. “It’s really not fair for me, I didn’t deserve that. Harmony Tan made all the headlines on Tuesday night in her Wimbledon debut as she beat Serena Williams in a thrilling final set tie-break. In the women's draw there was a huge shock as second seed Anett Kontaveit suffered defeat to world No.97 Jule Niemeier.

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Tan is set to play later on today, Wednesday 29 June 2022, in the doubles tournament. Williams said: “Today I gave all I could do. If I could win one game, or two games, it’s really good for me.” In Grand Slams, Tan has reached the second round of the Australian Open, French Open and now Wimbledon as well as the first round of the US Open. However, Williams was evidently shaky during her match and the 24-year-old French player Harmony Tan was able to break her opponent’s serve in the first game. The tennis world was full of excitment as the 23-Grand Slam winner Serena Williams was set to return to the grass courts of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and join the WTA tour for the first time in a year.

I didn't deserve that,” Tamara Korpatsch wrote on Instagram. “She asked me before the tournament if we wanna play doubles and I said yes. I didn't ask her, ...

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