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At Wimbledon, it's a good day and a bad day for American tennis players. At the MLB draft, a picture goes number one for the first time in half a decade.

And as an aging US soccer legend announces her retirement, an up-and-comer grabs the spotlight. From Wondry, I'm Tifoshinsky.

And I'm Anders Keltow. It's Monday, July 10th. And this is starting five sports news you need to start your day.

Okay, we're beginning today's episode at Wimbledon where American tennis fans saw one US player, Cruz de Vickery, on Sunday. And another due sort of the opposite.

Yeah, Tif, we're going to start with sort of the opposite here. Number 10, he did American Francis Tiafo, the guy who stole the hearts of tennis fans at last year's US Open.

He bowed out in the third round at Wimbledon on Sunday, falling in straight sets to Bulgarian, Grigor de Mietroff, the number 21 seed. Tiafo was clearly frustrated with his own play during the loss and at one point, smacked it all out of the stadium.

The position seems to me that Dymotroff's shots are just deeper. Oh, I'm going to warning from that.

I'm going to go in violation. What is in the car in the church road there? That was just an explosion from Tifosh.

Yeah.

Side note there, if you parked your car on church road in Wimbledon yesterday, you might want to check for Dense. This man hits the ball very, very hard.

After the match, Tif, Tiafo called his play, quote, God awful and said he had never felt that way after a match.

And you know, that might be because since making the US Open semis last year, Tiafo has now lost in the third round at three straight majors.

So big match frustration seems to be mounting for him here. Meanwhile, on a much happier note for American fans, Jessica Pagula, the number four seed on the women's side, easily advanced to the quarter finals in straight sets.

And in the process, she became only the fifth American woman in the past 25 years to reach the quarters of all four majors during Sloan Stevens, Madison Keys, and Venus and Serena Williams as the only Americans to do that. Go girl indeed.

Here she is talking about the accomplishment after the match.

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