Caroline Garcia stuns top seed Karolina Pliskova in straight sets

It's the first huge upset of the tournament so far.

: Caroline Garcia of France reacts to winning a point in the first set during her Women's Singles second round match against Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic on Day Three of the 2020 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Se

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An absolutely emphatic performance from France’s Caroline Garcia saw her hammer the women’s top seed Karolina Pliskova 6-1, 7-6(2).

Garcia was imperious in the first set, hitting 15 winners and hardly giving her opponent a second to think.

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Pliskova, who said the Frenchwoman had “nothing unbeatable” before the match was completely shell-shocked.

The Czech hit just one winner and won just seven points in a brutal opening set.

Despite being broken in the opening game, Pliskova gathered herself in the second set and found the crucial break in the eighth and forced a tie-break.

Both players were broken early but all of a sudden Garcia exploded, breaking three more times on her way to a 7-2 win to secure a straight sets victory.

The Frenchwoman’s win highlights the strength of depth in the women’s tour right now.

Garcia, who Andy Murray once labelled as a future world number one, is currently ranked 50th in the world but is a former top-ten ranker, and will face Jennifer Brady in the next round.

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