Wimbledon: Swiatek reaches second round with solid performance
Iga Swiatek won against Polina Kudermetova 7-5, 6-1 on Tuesday afternoon. She’ll face American Catherine McNally in the next round
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Pole Iga Swiatek, the No 8 seed, won against Russian Polina Kudermetova 7-5, 6-1 to advance to the second round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Tuesday.
Since her debut in the main draws of the Grand Slam in 2019, Iga Swiatek is the player who has played the most second rounds in women’s singles in this type of event (25).
Only five players in the Open era have had a better record in the opening rounds of major women’s singles tournaments than Iga Swiatek (25-1) after their first 26 appearances: Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Evonne Goolagong, Monica Seles and Serena Williams (26-0).
Swiatek, ranked No 4, will play American Catherine McNally 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
- Sofia Kenin vs. Taylor Townsend
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Anastasia Zakharova
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Elena Rybakina
- Alycia Parks vs. Belinda Bencic
- Magda Linette vs. Elsa Jacquemot
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Lin Zhu
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Ella Seidel
- Petra Kvitova vs. Emma Navarro: tuesday
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Arantxa Rus: tuesday
- Victoria Mboko vs. Magdalena Frech: tuesday
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Mayar Sherif: tuesday
- Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Francesca Jones: tuesday
- Camila Osorio vs. Danielle Collins: tuesday
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Sorana Cirstea: tuesday
- Maria Sakkari beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 6-4
- Catherine McNally beat Jodie Burrage (WC): 6-3, 6-1
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Jil Teichmann: 6-4, 7-5
- Xinyu Wang beat Karolina Muchova (15): 7-5, 6-2
- Liudmila Samsonova (19) beat Maya Joint: 6-3, 6-2
- Barbora Krejcikova (17) beat Alexandra Eala: 3-6, 6-2, 6-1
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Nina Stojanovic (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Zeynep Sonmez beat Jaqueline Cristian: 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Katerina Siniakova beat Qinwen Zheng (5): 7-5, 4-6, 6-1
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Jessica Pegula (3): 6-2, 6-3
- Irina-Camelia Begu beat Kaja Juvan (Q): 7-6 (6), 1-6, 6-3
- Daria Kasatkina (16) beat Emiliana Arango: 7-5, 6-3
- Clara Tauson (23) beat Heather Watson (WC): 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Veronika Erjavec (Q) beat Marta Kostyuk (26): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Katie Volynets beat Tatjana Maria: 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (18) beat Priscilla Hon (Q): 6-2, 7-5
- Suzan Lamens beat Iva Jovic (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Ashlyn Krueger (31) beat Mika Stojsavljevic (WC): 6-3, 6-2
- Elise Mertens (24) beat Linda Fruhvirtova (Q): 6-4, 6-2
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Katie Boulter beat Paula Badosa (9): 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
- Naomi Osaka beat Talia Gibson (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Amanda Anisimova (13) beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-0, 6-0
- Marie Bouzkova beat Lulu Sun: 6-4, 6-4
- Jasmine Paolini (4) beat Anastasija Sevastova: 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Kamilla Rakhimova beat Aoi Ito: 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
- Emma Raducanu beat Mingge Xu (WC): 6-3, 6-3
- Ann Li beat Viktorija Golubic: 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
- Marketa Vondrousova beat McCartney Kessler (32): 6-1, 7-6 (3)
- Renata Zarazua beat Yanina Wickmayer: 6-0, 6-3
- Dalma Galfi beat Harriet Dart (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Leylah Fernandez (29) beat Hannah Klugman (WC): 6-1, 6-3
- Olga Danilovic beat Shuai Zhang (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Madison Keys (6) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse: 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-5
- Diana Shnaider (12) beat Moyuka Uchijima: 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Laura Siegemund beat Peyton Stearns: 6-4, 6-2
- Solana Sierra (LL) beat Olivia Gadecki: 6-2, 7-6 (8)
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q) beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (8)
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (21) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 7-6 (7), 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Carson Branstine (Q): 6-1, 7-5
- 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
