“I ordered some weed shoes and they brought me some glasses”

Cristina Bucsa Her win-loss box debuted at Wimbledon on Monday with an emphatic victory over the Russian Kamilla Rakhimova in about three hours. After coming back from four match points in the deciding supertiebreak: 6-3, 4-6 and 7-6 (9)

With his first win in his pocket, the Spaniard recalled his first London Grand Slam experience, when he showed up without grass shoes and ordered some online. By mistake, he received some sunglasses.

In 2019, in the first Grand Slam played by the Spaniard, based in Torrelavega.

“My memory at Wimbledon is that I arrived without grass shoes and played in the first round with two sizes bigger than me,” Bucsa recalled in a chat with Spanish journalists at the All England Club.

“I bought them at the tournament store, because I used to go to the Decathlon as a last resort, to have some golf shoes, even though I knew they wouldn’t let me play in them,” he said.

The Spanish player, at that time was beyond position 200 in the ranking and was playing in the previous stage, asked the organization if they could get him some shoes for the surface and he had to come from Roehampton, where he played previous stage, towards the All England Club.

There he bought the shoes, which were two sizes bigger, but this did not prevent him from winning the American whitney osuigwe.

This is the last resort of Bucsa, who before the tournament went to a website to get the most specific footwear for the season, because it is the most different from clay and cement.

However, when ordering shoes online, he was surprised that what he received were sunglasses.

“I don’t know why. I paid $120 and I don’t know how the glasses got to me,” said the Spaniard, who somehow did something with them.

“I gave them to my father. They are Rayban. Good brand,” he recalled.