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Second seed Myskina out of Wimbledon
French Open champion Anastasia Myskina's Wimbledon challenge was ended in the third round by Amy Frazier 4-6 6-4 6-4.
French Open champion and second seed Anastasia Myskina of Russia was knocked out of Wimbledon on Friday when she lost 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 to veteran Amy Frazier in the third round.
The 31st seeded American, who wrapped up the tie on her fifth match point, now meets either Russian 13th seed Maria Sharapova or Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia for a place in the quarter-finals.
Myskina, who made the fourth round last year, breezed through the first set but the 31-year-old American, playing in her 16th Wimbledon after making her debut in 1988, hit back.
She levelled the match with her all-court experience keeping Myskina scurrying deep behind the baseline and then sped into a 5-2 lead in the final set.
Her nerves began to tell when she squandered two match points on serve in the eighth game of the final set and then again in the tenth game when she also saved a break point.
A first service, which was wide on the TV replay, set up a fifth match point and Frazier made sure of victory when Myskina, in a rare foray from the back of the court, hit a running forehand which flew wide.
Frazier has never made it past the fourth round here in all her years of trying and two quarter-final places in the 1992 Australian Open and 1995 US Open remain her best Grand Slam performances.
Myskina is the second high profile women's seed to lose in successive days here following the Croatia's Karolina Sprem's straight sets second round dismissal of third seed and former champion Venus Williams on Thursday.
