Wimbledon: Svitolina battles past Linette to reach second round

Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, the No 21 seed, won against Pole Magda Linette 7-5, 6-7 (9), 6-3 to advance to the second round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Wednesday.

Svitolina, ranked No 21 in the world, will play German Jule Niemeier for a spot in the third round.

The Ukrainian needed two hours and 40 minutes for the win, during which she took a medical time out late in the third set.

Wimbledon (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 50,000,000):

• Danielle Collins (11) beat Clara Tauson: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Jule Niemeier beat Viktorija Golubic: 6-2, 6-1
• Katie Volynets (Q) beat Maria Lourdes Carle: 6-2, 7-5
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (20) beat Magdalena Frech: 7-5, 6-3
• Camila Osorio beat Lauren Davis: 6-3, 6-1
• Ons Jabeur (10) beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-3, 6-1
• Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Alycia Parks (Q): 6-2, 6-0
• Daria Snigur (Q) beat Oceane Dodin: 6-4, 6-0
• Katerina Siniakova (27) beat Marina Stakusic (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Dalma Galfi (Q) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-1, 6-2
• Yulia Putintseva beat Angelique Kerber (WC): 7-5, 6-3
• Petra Martic beat Francesca Jones (WC): 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
• Robin Montgomery (Q) beat Olivia Gadecki (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Caroline Garcia (23) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 7-5
• Leylah Fernandez (30) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-4, 6-3
• Elina Avanesyan beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-2, 6-3
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Sofia Kenin: 6-3, 6-4
• Jelena Ostapenko (13) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (WC): 6-1, 6-2
• Marie Bouzkova beat Julia Riera: 6-2, 6-1
• Katie Boulter (32) beat Tatjana Maria: 7-6 (6), 7-5
• Anna Kalinskaya (17) beat Panna Udvardy (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Bernarda Pera beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (6)
• Liudmila Samsonova (15) beat Rebeka Masarova: 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Marketa Vondrousova (6): 6-4, 6-2
• Elena Rybakina (4) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Jessica Pegula (5) beat Ashlyn Krueger: 6-2, 6-0
• Laura Siegemund beat Kateryna Baindl: 6-4, 6-1
• Xinyu Wang beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-0
• Harriet Dart beat Zhuoxuan Bai (Q): 6-4, 6-0
• Cristina Bucsa beat Ana Bogdan: 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (5)
• Linda Noskova (26) beat Sara Errani: 7-6 (3), 6-1
• Emma Navarro (19) beat Qiang Wang: 6-0, 6-2
• Paula Badosa beat Karolina Muchova: 6-3, 6-2
• Coco Gauff (2) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-1, 6-2
• Bianca Andreescu beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-4, 6-2
• Brenda Fruhvirtova beat Mirra Andreeva (24): 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Sonay Kartal (Q) beat Sorana Cirstea (29): 3-6, 6-2, 6-0
• 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
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Veronika Kudermetova