Wimbledon: Rybakina drops just three games to cruise into second round

Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 11 seed, advanced to the second round of Wimbledon by defeating Armenian Elina Avanesyan 6-2, 6-1 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Tuesday evening.

Rybakina, ranked No 11, will play Greek Maria Sakkari 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: tuesday
• Belinda Bencic beat Alycia Parks: 6-0, 6-3
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Anastasia Zakharova: tuesday
• Sofia Kenin (28) beat Taylor Townsend (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Magda Linette vs. Elsa Jacquemot: tuesday
• Veronika Kudermetova beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 6-2
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Ella Seidel (Q): 6-3, 3-2 ret.
• Emma Navarro (10) beat Petra Kvitova (WC): 6-3, 6-1
• Caroline Dolehide beat Arantxa Rus: 6-2, 6-2
• Victoria Mboko (LL) beat Magdalena Frech (25): 6-3, 6-2
• Mirra Andreeva (7) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-3, 6-3
• Yuliia Starodubtseva beat Francesca Jones (WC): 1-6, 6-3, 6-1
• Danielle Collins beat Camila Osorio: 6-3, 6-2
• Hailey Baptiste beat Sorana Cirstea: 6-7, 6-1, 6-2
• Iga Swiatek (8) beat Polina Kudermetova: 7-5, 6-1
• 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