Wimbledon: Cornet advances to third round
Alize Cornet won against Claire Liu 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday and will face the winner of the match between Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, and Dutch lucky loser Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove in the next round
Frenchwoman Alize Cornet defeated American Claire Liu 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the third round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Thursday.
Cornet, ranked No 37, will face the winner of the match between Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, and Dutch lucky loser Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove next.
The Frenchwoman won against Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 27 seed (6-3, 7-6 (5)) ahead of her victory.
In the previous round, Liu, ranked No 75, beat Spaniard Nuria Parrizas Diaz (7-5, 6-3).
London (Grand Slam), other second-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 40.350.000, most recent results first):
- Coco Gauff vs. Mihaela Buzarnescu
- Kirsten Flipkens vs. Simona Halep
- Lauren Davis vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Iga Swiatek vs. Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
- Harriet Dart vs. Jessica Pegula
- Magdalena Frech vs. Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova
- Petra Martic vs. Kristina Kucova
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Katie Boulter vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Qiang Wang vs. Heather Watson
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Elena Rybakina
- Greet Minnen vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Panna Udvardy vs. Elise Mertens
- Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Harmony Tan
- Ana Bogdan vs. Petra Kvitova: thursday
- Ajla Tomljanovic beat Catherine Harrison (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Paula Badosa (4) beat Irina Bara: 6-3, 6-2
- Kaja Juvan beat Dalma Galfi: 7-5, 6-3
- Ons Jabeur (3) beat Katarzyna Kawa (Q): 6-4, 6-0
- Maria Sakkari (5) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-4, 6-3
- Irina-Camelia Begu beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-4, 6-4
- Alison Riske (28) beat Maja Chwalinska (Q): 3-6, 6-1, 6-0
- Diane Parry beat Mai Hontama (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Angelique Kerber (15) beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 6-3
- Caroline Garcia beat Emma Raducanu (10): 6-3, 6-3
- Marie Bouzkova beat Ann Li: 6-0, 6-3
- Jelena Ostapenko (12) beat Yanina Wickmayer (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Tatjana Maria beat Sorana Cirstea (26): 6-3, 1-6, 7-5
- Jule Niemeier beat Anett Kontaveit (2): 6-4, 6-0
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Anhelina Kalinina (29): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Shuai Zhang (33) beat Marta Kostyuk: 7-6 (6), 6-2
