Wimbledon: Rybakina advances to third round
Elena Rybakina defeated Maria Sakkari 6-3, 6-1 on Thursday afternoon. She’ll play the winner of the match between Dane Clara Tauson, the No 23 seed, and Russian Anna Kalinskaya in the next round
Elena Rybakina (Action Plus/PSNewz)
Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 11 seed, defeated Greek Maria Sakkari 6-3, 6-1 to reach the third round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Thursday afternoon.
It is Rybakina’s 20th match win at Wimbledon – the tournament at which she has been most successful.
Rybakina, ranked No 11, will play the winner of the match between Dane Clara Tauson, the No 23 seed, and Russian Anna Kalinskaya next.
The Kazakh won against Armenian Elina Avanesyan (6-2, 6-1) in the previous round of The Championships.
Sakkari is now 1-9 against opponents ranked in the Top 10 this year.
In the previous round of The Championships, Sakkari, ranked No 77, won against Russian Anna Blinkova (6-4, 6-4).
London (Grand Slam), other second-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 53.500.000, most recent results first):
- Sofia Kenin vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Clara Tauson vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Liudmila Samsonova: thursday
- Iga Swiatek vs. Catherine McNally
- Anastasia Zakharova vs. Dayana Yastremska: thursday
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Caroline Dolehide: thursday
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Belinda Bencic: thursday
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (18) beat Suzan Lamens: 6-4, 6-0
- Danielle Collins beat Veronika Erjavec (Q): 6-4, 6-1
- Hailey Baptiste beat Victoria Mboko (LL): 7-6 (6), 6-3
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Katie Volynets: 6-0, 6-4
- Mirra Andreeva (7) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-1, 7-6 (4)
- Zeynep Sonmez beat Xinyu Wang: 7-5, 7-5
- Emma Navarro (10) beat Veronika Kudermetova: 6-1, 6-2
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Ashlyn Krueger (31): 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Elina Svitolina (14) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Emma Raducanu beat Marketa Vondrousova: 6-3, 6-3
- Naomi Osaka beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-3, 6-2
- Kamilla Rakhimova beat Jasmine Paolini (4): 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Diane Parry (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (12): 6-4, 6-1
- Amanda Anisimova (13) beat Renata Zarazua: 6-4, 6-3
- Linda Noskova (30) beat Eva Lys: 6-2, 2-6, 6-3
- Solana Sierra (LL) beat Katie Boulter: 6-7 (7), 6-2, 6-1
- Dalma Galfi beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (21): 7-6 (7), 6-1
- Elise Mertens (24) beat Ann Li: 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-2
- Cristina Bucsa beat Donna Vekic (22): 6-1, 6-3
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Marie Bouzkova: 7-6 (4), 6-4
- 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
