Wimbledon: Wild card Boulter moves into third round
Katie Boulter defeated Viktoriya Tomova 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 on Thursday afternoon and will play the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Alize Cornet and Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 3 seed, in the next round
Katie Boulter at Wimbledon in 2023 (Action Plus/Panoramic)
Wildcard Katie Boulter advanced to the third round of Wimbledon by winning against Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Thursday afternoon.
Boulter, ranked No 89, will face the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Alize Cornet and Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 3 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, Katie Boulter beat Australian Daria Saville (7-6 (4), 6-2).
Tomova, ranked No 99, won against American Bernarda Pera, the No 27 seed (6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-3) in the previous round of The Championships.
London (Grand Slam), other second-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 16.077.000, most recent results first):
- Ons Jabeur vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Anna Blinkova
- Madison Brengle vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Jule Niemeier vs. Dalma Galfi
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Madison Keys
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Paula Badosa
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Petra Kvitova
- Natalija Stevanovic vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Alize Cornet vs. Elena Rybakina
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Kaja Juvan
- Jessica Pegula vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Danielle Collins vs. Belinda Bencic: thursday
- Sloane Stephens vs. Donna Vekic: thursday
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Caroline Garcia: thursday
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Rebeka Masarova: 6-3, 6-1
- Marie Bouzkova (32) beat Anett Kontaveit: 6-1, 6-2
- Magda Linette vs. Barbora Strycova: thursday
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko: thursday
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Jaqueline Cristian: thursday
- Mirra Andreeva (Q) beat Barbora Krejcikova (10): 6-3, 4-0 ret.
- Marketa Vondrousova beat Veronika Kudermetova (12): 6-3, 6-3
- Victoria Azarenka (19) beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-3, 6-0
- Ana Bogdan beat Alycia Parks: 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-4, 6-1
- Sofia Kenin (Q) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-4, 6-3
- Elina Svitolina (WC) beat Elise Mertens (28): 6-1, 1-6, 6-1
- Petra Martic (30) beat Diane Parry: 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 6-2, 6-0
- Daria Kasatkina (11) beat Jodie Burrage (WC): 6-0, 6-2
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