Wimbledon: Sonmez becomes first Turkish player to reach Grand Slam singles third round in Open Era

Turkey’s Zeynep Sonmez created history on Thursday as she won against Chinese Xinyu Wang 7-5, 7-5 to move into the third round of Wimbledon.

The win made her the 23-year-old the first player from Turkey to advance to the third round of a Grand Slam singles event in the Open Era.

Prior to this week, the Turkish player had never won a Grand Slam main draw match and now she has won two. Sonmez had defeated Romanian Jaqueline Cristian (7-6 (3), 6-3) in the first round.

Sonmez, ranked No 88, will face the winner of the match between Dutchwoman Suzan Lamens and Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 18 seed, next at the All England Club in London.

Wang, ranked No 32, won against No 15 seed Karolina Muchova (7-5, 6-2) earlier in the week.

London (Grand Slam), other second-round matches (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 53,500,000):

• Daria Kasatkina vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
• Iga Swiatek vs. Catherine McNally
• Sofia Kenin vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
• Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Clara Tauson vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Anastasia Zakharova vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Maria Sakkari vs. Elena Rybakina
• Elsa Jacquemot vs. Belinda Bencic
• Danielle Collins vs. Veronika Erjavec
• Suzan Lamens vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Hailey Baptiste vs. Victoria Mboko
• Katie Volynets vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• 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