Harmony Tan

KATIE BOULTER is out of Wimbledon after losing in a one-sided match to Harmony Tan.

Tan now serving for the set. The 24-year-old with a brilliant challenge call to bring up three break points. Back-and-forth from both and Boulter hits a brilliant winner to bring up deuce. Tan hits wide though to give Boulter a chance at 30-30. Too easy again for the French tennis star. But Tan steps it up and holds serve. And the second followed in a similar fashion with Boulter winning just seven of 36 receiving points. “It was really emotional for the first round against Serena. And after, it was just playing match by match. She starts by winning a rare point on Tan's serve. I really like to play volleys - everything with my game. Court 2 still had fans squeezing in to try and catch a glimpse of Boulter with the Brit serving to stay in the match. I like grass.

Boulter was unable to join Cameron Norrie and Heather Watson in the fourth round after Tan raced to an emphatic 6-1 6-1 win.

The winners continued to flow from Tan, who could not miss and broke Boulter again after landing a tweener to stay in the point and then put Boulter away with the forehand pass. “Amazing,” Tan said as she advanced to the fourth round of a grand slam for the first time. Tan then flashed three aces in a row to hold and wrap up the opening set in just 27 minutes and the second set would be clinched at an even faster rate. Tan has weapons beyond her devious slice and tricky drop shots as she controlled a forehand winner and then arrowed a return on to the baseline to move into a 5-1 lead. In an ominous start, Boulter broke a string to face 15-30 on her opening service game and as Tan dipped to nudge a pick-up volley over the net she was met with two break points. The fourth round awaits for Tan, who continues to astound in what is her first appearance at the Championships. This was a stunning display of clean and nerveless hitting by the 24-year-old from France, who cut Boulter apart with her slice and reeled off 16 winners to the cost of just five unforced errors.

Harmony Tan pulled off a Roger Federer-like 'tweener' trick shot against Katie Boulter in her Wimbledon women's singles third round match, on Saturday.

The first thing I said was, 'Can I play tennis again?' This moment was when I realised I wanted to play tennis in my life." Such was the ease of her win, that she even pulled out a Roger Federer-like between-the-legs (‘tweener’) shot against her opponent. Then a third break sealed helped Tan clinch a comfortable win on Saturday.

Katie Boulter's fine Wimbledon run ended in disappointing fashion with a one-sided defeat by Harmony Tan in the third round.

- Wimbledon - Wimbledon I don’t know why but it depends on the day!”

The French star produced a near faultless performance against Britain's Katie Boulter to reach the fourth round.

But right now, she is the form of her life and it will be a tough ask to try and stop her. And it’s her first ever #Wimbledon.” Another echoed this idea and said: “Harmony Tan reminds me a lot of Ash Barty. The way she plays, the shot selection, the calmness, the game IQ, everything. Another incredible performance from Harmony Tan. Her ability to hit big and mix up pace reminds me of Ash Barty. Honestly the way she handled that match was just as impressive as her win over Serena— Nick Carter (@nick_bcarter) July 2, 2022 One fan wrote: “Another incredible performance from Harmony Tan. Her ability to hit big and mix up pace reminds me of Ash Barty. Honestly, the way she handled that match was just as impressive as her win over Serena [Williams.]” An audacious tweener through the legs on break-point in the second set epitomised Tan’s newfound confidence and she appears to be in the form of her life right now.

After defeating Sara Sorribes Tormo and home favourite Katie Boulter, the Frenchwoman is now in the second week of a Major for the first time in her career.

She picked up the racquet more as a hobby and less as a passion. And then, after receiving one of the unluckiest draws of the year, she has made the second week of a Major for the first time in her career. For a player who started training to play tennis at an elite level from a young age, she has developed an inherent interest in surfing, and is even an esteemed classical pianist. Tan’s name was a part of headlines all over the world after she was drawn against Serena Williams in the first round at Wimbledon this year. Over three hours of tennis saw Tan edge an epic, and give her the chance to do better than she ever had before at the grass Major. What followed were solid and dominant straight-sets wins over 32nd seed Sara Sorribes Tormo, and big home favourite Katie Boulter to ensure her status as one of the bigger underdog stories in the women’s draw this year. She had been on the outside of the top 100 of the WTA rankings looking, played a handful of tour-level main draws, and had not made the quarterfinal of a single event she played.

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"It's always difficult to play on grass. But Anisimova refused to roll over and, despite an early exchange of breaks in the second set, she jumped ahead 3-1. Yet during the opening exchanges, 11th seed Gauff threatened to wallop Anisimova as she had two break points to go 4-0 up. "Because when you play a Brit on Centre Court, I think there is a lot of people for her. "I like to play first match also because I don't wait all the day." "But there is one person who believed in me.

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"I was really cool today," she said. I was really surprised to win, because she had been a semifinalist at the Australian Open. And after I won that match, after that tournament I was Top 100. "For me, the Australian Open was really hard after I played so well," Tan said. "I was at school," she said. I didn't play juniors because I didn't have money to play juniors, and I went straight to the ITF tournaments. "I think she don't like my game," Tan said.

Eurosport expert Alize Lim feels Harmony Tan's status as an unknown quantity could play to the Frenchwoman's strength at Wimbledon.

The bounces were not good, she went to the net and she had that ability. “I’m not surprised at all because I hit with her the day before she went to Wimbledon,” Lim said. “I really think she can go far, because of the fact that people don’t really know her game yet,” Lim said.