It has to be the heatwave, right? England, like most of Europe, has been gripped by the hottest June ever, with temperatures soaring to 95 degrees Fahrenheit in London. The scorching heat has coincided with a host of top-seeded players wilting in their first-round matches at Wimbledon. Across the opening two days of the major, an Open Era record eight top-10 seeds — four WTA and four ATP — have been ousted in the first round. After World No. 8 Holger Rune, No. 9 Daniil Medvedev and No. 9 Paula Badosa were eliminated on Day 1, the upsets continued on Day 2, with No. 2 Coco Gauff, No. 3 Jessica Pegula, No. 5 Qinwen Zheng, No. 7 Lorenzo Musetti and No. 3 Alexander Zverev suffering upset losses. Gauff, fresh off her French Open victory, became just the third woman in the 21st century to lose in the first round at Wimbledon after capturing the preceding clay-court major, joining Justine Henin (2005) and Francesca Schiavone (2010). On the men’s side, Zverev, Musetti, Rune and Medvedev’s losses mean that four top-1
