(Reuters) – Hubert Hurkacz will hope his highly effective serve is on level at Wimbledon after pledging to donate 100 euros ($105.54) for every ace he hits to the Ukraine relief effort, the Polish seventh seed mentioned on Sunday forward of the grasscourt Grand Slam.
Hurkacz, whose energy is suited to grass courts, is third on the record of variety of aces hit on the ATP Tour this 12 months with 452 — behind big-serving Americans John Isner and Reilly Opelka.
Seventy of Hurkacz’s aces have come from simply six matches on grass, with the 25-year-old profitable final week’s tune-up occasion at Halle the place he beat world primary Daniil Medvedev within the remaining.
“I’d like to announce that beginning tomorrow I’m pledging to donate 100 euros for every ace I hit at Wimbledon to assist help the folks of Ukraine. Hope my serve works nicely!” he wrote on Twitter.
Hurkacz begins his Wimbledon marketing campaign towards Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina within the first spherical on Monday.
The grasscourt Grand Slam banned gamers from Russia and Belarus from enjoying at this 12 months’s Wimbledon following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, which Russia calls a ‘particular operation’.
($1 = 0.9475 euros)
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; modifying by Pritha Sarkar)
