Tennis - Wimbledon - All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, Britain - July 11, 2019 Romania's Simona Halep in action during her semi-final match against Ukraine's Elina Svitolina Mike Egerton/Pool via REUTERS
LONDON (Reuters) - In years to come when tennis fans flick through the hefty 500-page Wimbledon Compendium, they will note that in 2019 Simona Halep rolled over Ukrainian Elina Svitolina in the semi-finals for the loss of just four games.
What the 6-1 6-3 scoreline will not reveal, however, was that Halep took nine minutes to hold serve in the opening game of the encounter played out in glorious sunshine on Centre Court or that Svitolina earned and squandered three break points.
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