Elisabetta Italian Cocciatto made an astonishing return to the scene of Wimbledon on Tuesday, oust the seeded n ° 3 Jessica Pegula 6-2, 6-3 in just 58 minutes in the first round in London.
Coccirereto had to stay on the major in 2024 due to a disease. She played well on Grass’s terrains in the past year, reaching the semi-finals last year in Birmingham and last month in “S-Hétogenbosch.
“I was so pumped to play Wimbledon this year,” said Cocciatto in his interview on the field. “I couldn’t wait for the match to start, I was training so hard.”
Cocciatto, 24, won a title on the WTA tour and has a 14-17 file and the world ranking n ° 116 this season. By beating Pegula, she won her second victory against a top 10 opponent, previously beating Petra Kvitova to the French Open in 2023.
Pegula entered the match on a high note after beating Iga Swiatek in Poland last weekend to win the title of Grass-Court in Bad Homburg. But Coccireto dictated the match and struck 17 winners compared to five for Pegula, who was broken on the service four times but only scored eight points on the service of his opponent.
In the second round, Cocciaretto will face another American, Katie Volynets. She beat Tatjana Maria from Germany 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1.
Other winners at the start of action on Tuesday were a trio of seed players – n ° 16 Daria Kasatkina of Australia, n ° 18 Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia and n ° 23 Clara Tauson of Denmark. The Netherlands, the Netherlands, Romania of Romania, Romania, and Veronika Erjavec, of Slovenia, beat the n ° 26 Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
– field level media