Wimbledon: Kartal upsets 29th seed Cirstea to move into second round
Sonay Kartal won against Sorana Cirstea 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 on Monday evening and will face Frenchwoman Clara Burel in the next round
Sonay Kartal
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Qualifier Sonay Kartal beat Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the No 29 seed, 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 to reach the second round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Monday evening.
Kartal, ranked No 298, will play Frenchwoman Clara Burel next.
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London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 50.000.000, most recent results first):
- Magda Linette vs. Elina Svitolina
- Ons Jabeur vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Katie Volynets
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Magdalena Frech vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Camila Osorio vs. Lauren Davis
- Danielle Collins vs. Clara Tauson
- Francesca Jones vs. Petra Martic
- Iga Swiatek vs. Sofia Kenin
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Jule Niemeier
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Alycia Parks
- Oceane Dodin vs. Daria Snigur
- Robin Montgomery vs. Olivia Gadecki
- Mayar Sherif vs. Dalma Galfi
- Marina Stakusic vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Angelique Kerber
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Katie Boulter vs. Tatjana Maria
- Rebeka Masarova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Julia Riera
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Panna Udvardy
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Elena Rybakina vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Bernarda Pera vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Caroline Garcia vs. Anna Blinkova
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Jessica Pegula
- Xinyu Wang vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Harriet Dart vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
- Laura Siegemund vs. Kateryna Baindl
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Ana Bogdan
- Sara Errani vs. Linda Noskova: monday
- Emma Navarro (19) beat Qiang Wang: 6-0, 6-2
- Paula Badosa vs. Karolina Muchova: monday
- Coco Gauff (2) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-1, 6-2
- Bianca Andreescu beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-4, 6-2
- Brenda Fruhvirtova vs. Mirra Andreeva: monday
- Yuriko Lily Miyazaki (WC) beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-2, 6-1
- Sloane Stephens beat Elsa Jacquemot (LL): 6-3, 6-3
- Yulia Starodubtseva (Q) beat Alison Van Uytvanck: 6-4, 6-3
- Emma Raducanu (WC) beat Renata Zarazua (LL): 7-6, 6-3
- Erika Andreeva (LL) beat Emina Bektas: 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3
- Donna Vekic beat Xiyu Wang: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Lulu Sun (Q) beat Qinwen Zheng (8): 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Clara Burel beat Eva Lys (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Daria Saville beat Peyton Stearns: 6-4, 6-2
- Naomi Osaka (WC) beat Diane Parry: 6-1, 1-6, 6-4
- Madison Keys (12) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Diana Shnaider beat Karolina Pliskova: 4-6, 6-4, 7-5
- Yafan Wang beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-0, 3-6, 6-4
- Jasmine Paolini (7) beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 7-5, 6-3
- Arantxa Rus beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 6-3
- Elise Mertens beat Nao Hibino: 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Daria Kasatkina (14) beat Shuai Zhang: 6-3, 6-0
- Marta Kostyuk (18) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 6-3, 6-2
- Anca Todoni (Q) beat Olga Danilovic (LL): 7-5, 6-1
- Greet Minnen beat Heather Watson (WC): 7-5, 6-4
- Varvara Gracheva beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-3, 6-1
- Dayana Yastremska (28) beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-1, 7-6 (1)
- Maria Sakkari (9) beat McCartney Kessler (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (25) beat Taylor Townsend: 7-6 (4), 6-1
- Lin Zhu beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-0, 6-4
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