Wimbledon: British No 1 Boulter into second round

Wild card Katie Boulter defeated Australian Daria Saville 7-6 (4), 6-2 to advance to the second round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London – finishing the match more than 24 hours after it started.

Boulter was down in the first set, needing to hold serve to force a tiebreak, when the match was interrupted by rain on Tuesday.

And she was also down in the tiebreak when it was interrupted by climate protesters. Both she and Saville helped with the clear-up operation, keeping themselves warm on a changeable day in SW19.

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She held her nerve to turn it round, though, with a sound win against a solid player – albeit one who is still en route back from serious injury.

Boulter, ranked No 89, will face the winner of the match between American Bernarda Pera, the No 27 seed, and Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova next.

She won her first WTA tour title on grass at Nottingham last month, although she was knocked out of Birmingham and Eastbourne in her first matches there.

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London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 2.000.000, most recent results first):

• Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Rebecca Marino
• Linda Noskova vs. Dalma Galfi
• Karolina Muchova vs. Jule Niemeier
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Petra Kvitova
• Anna Bondar vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Yanina Wickmayer vs. Anna Blinkova
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Sonay Kartal vs. Madison Keys
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Xiyu Wang: wednesday
• Madison Brengle vs. Sara Errani: wednesday
• Alison Riske-Amritraj vs. Paula Badosa: wednesday
• Nao Hibino vs. Alize Cornet: wednesday
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Natalija Stevanovic: wednesday
• Anastasia Potapova (22) beat Celine Naef (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Bernarda Pera vs. Viktoriya Tomova: wednesday
• Carol Zhao vs. Tamara Korpatsch: wednesday
• Heather Watson vs. Barbora Krejcikova: wednesday
• Kaja Juvan (Q) beat Margarita Betova: 6-0, 6-3
• Jelena Ostapenko (17) beat Greet Minnen (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Varvara Gracheva beat Camila Giorgi: 6-2, 6-4
• Zhuoxuan Bai (Q) beat Ysaline Bonaventure: 7-6, 6-1
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (21) beat Emma Navarro: 6-4, 6-3
• Marta Kostyuk beat Maria Sakkari (8): 0-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Sorana Cirstea beat Tatjana Maria: 6-1, 2-6, 6-3
• Jaqueline Cristian beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 6-4
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (13) beat Yulia Putintseva: 3-6, 6-0, 6-4
• Anett Kontaveit beat Lucrezia Stefanini (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Donna Vekic (20) beat Shuai Zhang: 6-2, 6-3
• Sloane Stephens beat Rebecca Peterson: 6-2, 6-3
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Camila Osorio: 6-3, 6-4
• Danielle Collins beat Julia Grabher: 6-4, 6-4
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Panna Udvardy: 6-3, 6-1
• Ons Jabeur (6) beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-3
• Elena Rybakina (3) beat Shelby Rogers: 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
• Marie Bouzkova (32) beat Simona Waltert (Q): 6-1, 6-4
• Sofia Kenin (Q) beat Coco Gauff (7): 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
• Katerina Siniakova beat Qinwen Zheng (24): 6-3, 7-5
• Rebeka Masarova beat Mayar Sherif (31): 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (6)
• Elise Mertens (28) beat Viktoria Hruncakova (Q): 7-6 (2), 6-2
• Elina Svitolina (WC) beat Venus Williams (WC): 6-4, 6-3
• Belinda Bencic (14) beat Katie Swan (WC): 7-5, 6-2
• Daria Kasatkina (11) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-1, 6-4
• Xinyu Wang beat Storm Hunter (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Jodie Burrage (WC) beat Catherine McNally: 6-1, 6-3
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Peyton Stearns: 6-2, 7-5
• Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Martina Trevisan: 6-3, 6-1
• Magda Linette (23) beat Jil Teichmann: 6-3, 6-2
• Leylah Fernandez beat Kateryna Baindl: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Caroline Garcia (5) beat Katie Volynets: 6-4, 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Claire Liu: 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Lin Zhu: 6-1, 6-3
• Veronika Kudermetova (12) beat Kaia Kanepi: 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Jessica Pegula (4) beat Lauren Davis: 6-2, 6-7 (8), 6-3
• Victoria Azarenka (19) beat Yue Yuan (Q): 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
• Ana Bogdan beat Liudmila Samsonova (15): 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4)
• Alycia Parks beat Anna-Lena Friedsam: 6-4, 6-3
• Cristina Bucsa beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (9)
• Nadia Podoroska beat Tereza Martincova: 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Barbora Strycova beat Maryna Zanevska: 6-1, 7-5
• Petra Martic (30) beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 7-5, 6-7 (5), 4-1 ret.
• Diane Parry beat Harriet Dart (WC): 6-7 (4), 6-0, 6-4