Wimbledon: Sabalenka eases past Branstine to move into second round

Aryna Sabalenka, the top seed, advanced to the second round of Wimbledon by winning against Canadian qualifier Carson Branstine 6-1, 7-5 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

The Belarusian becomes the ninth player in 2000s to claim 50 WTA level wins as World No. 1, after Martina Hingis, Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport, Justine Henin, Caroline Wozniacki, Victoria Azarenka, Ashleigh Barty and Iga Swiatek

Sabalenka, ranked No 1, will play the winner of the match between New Zealander Lulu Sun and Marie Bouzkova next.

London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 53.500.000, most recent results first):

• Dayana Yastremska vs. Coco Gauff
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Anastasia Zakharova
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Ella Seidel
• Sofia Kenin vs. Taylor Townsend
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Elena Rybakina
• Alycia Parks vs. Belinda Bencic
• Magda Linette vs. Elsa Jacquemot

• Maria Sakkari vs. Anna Blinkova
• Petra Kvitova vs. Emma Navarro
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Lin Zhu
• Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Francesca Jones
• Catherine McNally vs. Jodie Burrage
• Iga Swiatek vs. Polina Kudermetova
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Arantxa Rus
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Magdalena Frech
• Hailey Baptiste vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Alexandra Eala
• Maya Joint vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Nina Stojanovic
• Camila Osorio vs. Danielle Collins
• Jil Teichmann vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Mayar Sherif
• Zeynep Sonmez vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Karolina Muchova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Kaja Juvan
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Emiliana Arango
• Clara Tauson vs. Heather Watson
• Veronika Erjavec vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Jessica Pegula
• Katie Volynets vs. Tatjana Maria
• Priscilla Hon vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Suzan Lamens vs. Iva Jovic
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Naomi Osaka vs. Talia Gibson
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Mika Stojsavljevic
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Elise Mertens vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. McCartney Kessler
• Emma Raducanu vs. Mingge Xu
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Anastasija Sevastova
• Yanina Wickmayer vs. Renata Zarazua
• Paula Badosa vs. Katie Boulter
• Harriet Dart vs. Dalma Galfi
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Madison Keys
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Hannah Klugman
• Lulu Sun vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Olga Danilovic vs. Shuai Zhang
• Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Aoi Ito
• Ann Li vs. Viktorija Golubic
• Diana Shnaider vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Peyton Stearns vs. Laura Siegemund: monday
• Solana Sierra vs. Olivia Gadecki: monday
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich: monday
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Rebecca Sramkova: monday
• Linda Noskova (30) beat Bernarda Pera: 6-2, 6-4
• Cristina Bucsa beat Anca Todoni: 6-4, 6-4
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Ons Jabeur: 7-6 (5), 2-0 ret.
• Diane Parry (Q) beat Petra Martic (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Eva Lys beat Yue Yuan: 6-4, 5-7, 6-2
• Donna Vekic (22) beat Kimberly Birrell: 6-0, 6-4
• Elina Svitolina (14) beat Anna Bondar: 6-3, 6-1
• Sonay Kartal beat Jelena Ostapenko (20): 7-5, 2-6, 6-2