“Nervous” defending champion Rybakina makes second round, beats Rogers

Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 3 seed, reached the second round of Wimbledon by winning against American Shelby Rogers 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Tuesday.

The defending champion admitted afterwards that she had been nervous, taking to court in front of Catherine, Princess of Wales, and Roger Federer in the royal box, and said that her experience from last year did not settle her anxiety.

“It actually didn’t help me much because I was the same nervous today!” she said afterwards, adding that although she had played on Centre Court, she had not previously played under the roof – nor with so much grass at the baseline.

“It was really tough for me today, I was pretty nervous and I cannot hide it,” she said.

“It was an amazing atmosphere – really pleased to get to another round.”

Rybakina, ranked No 3, will face the winner of the match between Japanese lucky loser Nao Hibino and Frenchwoman Alize Cornet next.

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London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 2.000.000, most recent results first):

• Anett Kontaveit vs. Lucrezia Stefanini
• Sonay Kartal vs. Madison Keys
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Alison Riske-Amritraj vs. Paula Badosa
• Maria Sakkari vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Greet Minnen vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Tatjana Maria
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Yanina Wickmayer vs. Anna Blinkova
• Linda Noskova vs. Dalma Galfi
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Xiyu Wang
• Panna Udvardy vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Anna Bondar vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Rebecca Marino
• Karolina Muchova vs. Jule Niemeier
• Heather Watson vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Camila Giorgi
• Nao Hibino vs. Alize Cornet
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Petra Kvitova
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
• Carol Zhao vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Natalija Stevanovic
• Ons Jabeur vs. Magdalena Frech
• Shuai Zhang vs. Donna Vekic
• Sloane Stephens vs. Rebecca Peterson
• Camila Osorio vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Danielle Collins vs. Julia Grabher
• Emma Navarro vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Madison Brengle vs. Sara Errani
• Kaja Juvan vs. Margarita Betova
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Celine Naef
• Katie Boulter vs. Daria Saville
• Bernarda Pera vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Ysaline Bonaventure vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
• Marie Bouzkova (32) beat Simona Waltert (Q): 6-1, 6-4
• Sofia Kenin (Q) beat Coco Gauff (7): 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
• Katerina Siniakova beat Qinwen Zheng (24): 6-3, 7-5
• Rebeka Masarova beat Mayar Sherif (31): 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (6)
• Elise Mertens (28) beat Viktoria Hruncakova (Q): 7-6 (2), 6-2
• Elina Svitolina (WC) beat Venus Williams (WC): 6-4, 6-3
• Belinda Bencic (14) beat Katie Swan (WC): 7-5, 6-2
• Daria Kasatkina (11) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-1, 6-4
• Xinyu Wang beat Storm Hunter (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Jodie Burrage (WC) beat Catherine McNally: 6-1, 6-3
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Peyton Stearns: 6-2, 7-5
• Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Martina Trevisan: 6-3, 6-1
• Magda Linette (23) beat Jil Teichmann: 6-3, 6-2
• Leylah Fernandez beat Kateryna Baindl: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Caroline Garcia (5) beat Katie Volynets: 6-4, 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Claire Liu: 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Lin Zhu: 6-1, 6-3
• Veronika Kudermetova (12) beat Kaia Kanepi: 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Jessica Pegula (4) beat Lauren Davis: 6-2, 6-7 (8), 6-3
• Victoria Azarenka (19) beat Yue Yuan (Q): 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
• Ana Bogdan beat Liudmila Samsonova (15): 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4)
• Alycia Parks beat Anna-Lena Friedsam: 6-4, 6-3
• Cristina Bucsa beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (9)
• Nadia Podoroska beat Tereza Martincova: 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Barbora Strycova beat Maryna Zanevska: 6-1, 7-5
• Petra Martic (30) beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 7-5, 6-7 (5), 4-1 ret.
• Diane Parry beat Harriet Dart (WC): 6-7 (4), 6-0, 6-4