Fans react as Yulia Putintseva SMASHES racket during shock French Open collapse (VIDEO)

No. 23 seed Putintseva was defeated by two sets to 1 (6-three, 1-6, 6-two) early on Wednesday by the unheralded Podoroska, reducing her from the event in which she has 2 times been a quarter-finalist, and it was apparent that she was unsatisfied with her performance. 

At 1 particularly contentious minute in the match, Putintseva could no for a longer time restrain her thoughts as she furiously slammed her racket 6 moments into the clay court docket in front of a shocked, socially-distant viewers, leaving her racket a mangled mess ahead of flinging it towards the sideline.

Putintseva had been deemed anything of a dim horse heading into the event and was deemed a prospect to repeat or improve on her 2018 quarter-closing visual appearance. Now she will have to view the remainder of the competitors on television.

The Kazakh player, who is of Russian descent, started off gradually and dropped the very first set to Podoroska by a rating of 6-three but rallied in the next to rout her opponent 6-1.

With many observers contemplating that the 3rd set would be anything of a formality for the professional Putinsteva, she instead ceded momentum to her opponent and could only control to earn two game titles in the closing stanza, a underneath-par tally clearly prompted her on-court docket outburst of emotion.

Podoroska’s victory is the most current in what has been a great calendar year for her vocation consequently significantly. She is now forty-6 in her matches this calendar year for an 87{46dd52bca0123ad67b2d1222819e83fd0a56e45ca5068239f05f0c514f1e20f9} successful share and has risen to the one hundred thirty mark in the environment rankings inspite of languishing outside the leading three hundred 12 months ago.

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And her opportunity route all through the relaxation of the event may be manufactured considerably a lot easier soon after it was unveiled on Wednesday afternoon that Serena Williams, three-time winner of the French Open up, has been forced to withdraw from the competitors citing an Achilles harm. 

Podoroska will now face Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in the 3rd spherical on Friday.