Wimbledon: No stress for Sabalenka, advances to third round to meet Grand Slam champion
Aryna Sabalenka won against Marie Bouzkova 7-6 (4), 6-4 on Wednesday and will face the winner of the match between Emma Raducanu and Marketa Vondrousova in the next round
Aryna Sabalenka (Imago/PSNewz)
Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the top seed, beat Marie Bouzkova 7-6 (4), 6-4 to advance to the third round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Wednesday afternoon.
Sabalenka, ranked No 1, will play the winner of the match between Emma Raducanu and Marketa Vondrousova next – both of whom are former Grand Slam champions.
Ahead of her victory, the Belarusian won against Canadian qualifier Carson Branstine (6-1, 7-5).
Bouzkova, ranked No 48, won against New Zealander Lulu Sun (6-4, 6-4) in the previous round of The Championships.
London (Grand Slam), other second-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 53.500.000, most recent results first):
- Iga Swiatek vs. Catherine McNally
- Maria Sakkari vs. Elena Rybakina
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Anastasia Zakharova vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Sofia Kenin vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
- Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Clara Tauson vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Danielle Collins vs. Veronika Erjavec
- Katie Volynets vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Belinda Bencic
- Suzan Lamens vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Xinyu Wang vs. Zeynep Sonmez
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Emma Navarro
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Caroline Dolehide
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Victoria Mboko
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Elina Svitolina
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Emma Raducanu vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Naomi Osaka vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Katie Boulter vs. Solana Sierra
- Diana Shnaider vs. Diane Parry
- Eva Lys vs. Linda Noskova
- Renata Zarazua vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Dalma Galfi
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Elise Mertens vs. Ann Li
- Cristina Bucsa beat Donna Vekic (22): 6-1, 6-3
- Laura Siegemund beat Leylah Fernandez (29): 6-2, 6-3
- Sonay Kartal beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-2, 6-2
- Madison Keys (6) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-4, 6-2
