Wimbledon: Azarenka beaten by qualifier Zakharova in first round
Anastasia Zakharova defeated Victoria Azarenka 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 on Tuesday and will face Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska in the next round
Victoria Azarenka at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Image Credit: Chryslene Caillaud / Panoramic
Russian qualifier Anastasia Zakharova moved into the second round of Wimbledon by winning against Belarusian Victoria Azarenka 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Tuesday.
Zakharova, ranked No 95, will play Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska next.
London (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 53,500,000):
- Elena Rybakina (11) beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-2, 6-1
- Belinda Bencic beat Alycia Parks: 6-0, 6-3
- Sofia Kenin (28) beat Taylor Townsend (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Elsa Jacquemot (Q) beat Magda Linette (27): 6-7 (7), 6-1, 6-4
- 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
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