Wimbledon: Svitolina makes third round
Elina Svitolina defeated Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-2, 6-4 on Wednesday evening and will face Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 24 seed, in the next round
Elina Svitolina (Action Plus/PSNewz)
Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 14 seed, moved into the third round of Wimbledon by winning against Belarusian qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-2, 6-4 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Wednesday evening.
Svitolina, ranked No 13, will face Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 24 seed, next.
In the previous round of The Championships, the Ukrainian beat Hungarian Anna Bondar (6-3, 6-1).
Sasnovich, ranked No 107, edged out Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva (6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (8)) during the first round of The Championships.
London (Grand Slam), other second-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 53.500.000, most recent results first):
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Iga Swiatek vs. Catherine McNally
- Clara Tauson vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Anastasia Zakharova vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Maria Sakkari vs. Elena Rybakina
- Sofia Kenin vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
- Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Danielle Collins vs. Veronika Erjavec
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Victoria Mboko
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Katie Volynets vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Belinda Bencic
- Suzan Lamens vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Caroline Dolehide
- Xinyu Wang vs. Zeynep Sonmez
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Emma Navarro
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Ashlyn Krueger (31): 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Emma Raducanu beat Marketa Vondrousova: 6-3, 6-3
- Naomi Osaka beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-3, 6-2
- Kamilla Rakhimova beat Jasmine Paolini (4): 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Diane Parry (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (12): 6-4, 6-1
- Amanda Anisimova (13) beat Renata Zarazua: 6-4, 6-3
- Linda Noskova (30) beat Eva Lys: 6-2, 2-6, 6-3
- Solana Sierra (LL) beat Katie Boulter: 6-7 (7), 6-2, 6-1
- Dalma Galfi beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (21): 7-6 (7), 6-1
- Elise Mertens beat Ann Li: 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-2
- Cristina Bucsa beat Donna Vekic (22): 6-1, 6-3
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Marie Bouzkova: 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Laura Siegemund beat Leylah Fernandez (29): 6-2, 6-3
- Sonay Kartal beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-2, 6-2
- Madison Keys (6) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-4, 6-2
