WIMBLEDON, England — Wimbledon 2019 kicked off today. Even by tennis standards, it was a wild and wooly and upset-riddled Day One. Here are five thoughts on the action, which saw Naomi Osaka and Alexander Zverev and Stefanos Tsitsipas suffer upsets and one teenaged American announcer herself as a star.
• It looked like someone misread the score. 15-39. No, that should be 15-40. But that was the age difference between Cori Gauff—born March 13, 2004—and her opponent, five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams, when the two faced off Monday on Court 1. Last week, the teenager from Atlanta became the youngest player to qualify for the Wimbledon women's singles draw in the Open Era.