Graf's first-round defeat in 1994 against Lori McNeil is the only other time in the sport's Open era, which dates to 1968, that a woman went from a championship at Wimbledon to an immediate exit a ...

It made Vondrousova only the second defending women’s Wimbledon champion to crash out in the first round after Graf did in 1994 to Lori McNeil. Prior to her 2023 success, Vondrousova had only ...