Garbine Muguruza Knocked Out By Alison Riske From The US Open 2019

The two-time Grand Slam champion, Garbine Muguruza was drawn to face the reigning quarterfinalist at Wimbledon, Alison Riske. The American World Number 36, Riske defeated the Spanish Number one, 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 in the opening round of the US Open 2019.

In today’s match, World Number 25, Garbine Muguruza had poor control over her service games and Alison Riske pulled off her first win at US Open over the past six years. Riske bounced back from a set down trail in today’s opener, and in 2013, she reached the fourth round of the American Slam.

Before entering the New York major, Garbine Muguruza had a poor run on the WTA track she parted ways with her coach Sam Sumyk right after she lost her opening round at Wimbledon 2019. Together, they raised to World Number one ranking and picked up to Grand Slams by defeating Serena and Venus Williams in the year 2016 and 2017.

The 24th seed at US Open 2019, Garbine Muguruza reached the fourth round at French Open 2019 and over there, she lost her pre-quarterfinal match to Sloane Stephens. Since then she hasn’t won any match on the WTA circuit and was hit by injuries which led her to withdraw from a few US Open Series events.

Muguruza was round one upset at Cincinnati Open 2019 as well. Last year at the US Open, she reached the second round. Today, she conceded her second consecutive first-round defeat at a Grand Slam tournament.

This year, the former World Number one, Muguruza won a title in Monterrey Open and Victoria Azarenka retired in the midst of the title match in Mexico. 

On the other courts of WTA at the US Open 2019, Belinda Bencic, Julia Gorges, Jelena Ostapenko, Alize Cornet, Petra Kvitova and Madison Keys are through to the second round of the tournament.