By Andy Walter

A couple months ago, Madison Brengle was asked how to describe her game to someone who had never seen her play tennis.

“Annoying,” she answered during a relaxed interview on the ‘Fantastic Tennis’ podcast in April. “I feel like it’s annoying. It’s not going to be a pleasant experience for anybody.”

Asked to point to a quintessential match for her, Brengle thought of her 6-2, 6-2 upset of No. 19 Dayana Yastremska in the U.S. Open last fall.

“I feel like I played very good but like my tennis,” she said. “Like the backhand was good, the serves didn’t exist and my forehand was weird.”

But the results speak for themselves.

However people want to describe her playing style, the 31-year-old from Dover ‘Brengled’ two more opponents to reach the third round of the women’s singles draw at Wimbledon this week.

Ranked No. 82 in the world, Brengle will face No. 66 Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland this morning or afternoon in England. Her match is the third of the day on Court 12, where the action starts at 6 a.m. by U.S. ET.

Neither player has ever made it past the third round in this Grand Slam event.

Many of the media comments this week have focused on the play of Brengle’s opponents. That’s especially true about her 6-3, 6-4, upset of fourth-seeded Sofia Kenin.

Kenin and first-round opponent, Christina McHale, combined for a remarkable 117 unforced errors in five sets while Brengle had just 33. That stat offsets the fact that those same two opponents hit 77 winners to only 19 for Brengle.

Of course, with so many of her opponents making so many unforced errors, it’s probably fair to say that Brengle’s game has something to do with it.

Brengle also plays the game at a fast pace, which sometimes seems to keep her opponents from settling in. Her victory over Kenin took only 45 minutes.

Considering the predicament she found herself in against McHale, the fact that Brengle is still playing is a story in itself. Brengle lost the first set 6-3 and trailed in the second set, 5-3.

But she rallied to take the final two sets, 7-5 and 10-8. The final set was suspended by darkness with Brengle leading 7-6 but she fell behind, 8-7, before winning the final three games.

Brengle staved off four match points in the second set before eventually posting the victory.

If she happens to win another match, Brengle’s playing style will no doubt be a big topic of conversation again. She has made the fourth round of a Grand Slam event just once before, falling in the fourth round of the 2015 Australian Open.

Back in April, Brengle talked about where her playing style comes from. When she was just a youngster starting out at the Dover Indoor Tennis Center, she used to play against adult men.

“I was playing with like 45-year-old men who were chipping and charging on a fast indoor court,” said Brengle. “I was playing against a very old-school style of tennis. I played kind of scrappy tennis against grown men and that’s how this happened.”

Whether it’s an “annoying” style or not, Brengle usually describes it with a sense of humor.

She said she’d like to be remembered for “being a fun, positive influence on tournaments.”

“I feel like there’s a lot of the same and I just want to be myself,” Brengle said on the podcast. “I don’t feel very cookie cutter but I hope I do it in a positive, happy way that makes people want to go out and play tennis.”