Wimbledon: Begu books spot in third round
Irina-Camelia Begu won against Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday evening. She’ll face Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 12 seed, in the next round
Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu moved into the third round of Wimbledon by winning against Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-4, 6-4 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Wednesday evening.
Begu, ranked No 43, will play Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 12 seed, next.
The Romanian defeated Georgian Ekaterine Gorgodze (6-4, 6-1) ahead of her victory.
In the previous round, Cocciaretto, ranked No 119, beat No 22 seed Martina Trevisan (6-2, 6-0).
London (Grand Slam), other second-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 40.350.000, most recent results first):
- Coco Gauff vs. Mihaela Buzarnescu
- Iga Swiatek vs. Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
- Katie Boulter vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Harmony Tan
- Lauren Davis vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Kirsten Flipkens vs. Simona Halep
- Magdalena Frech vs. Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova
- Ana Bogdan vs. Petra Kvitova
- Paula Badosa vs. Irina Bara
- Harriet Dart vs. Jessica Pegula
- Petra Martic vs. Kristina Kucova
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Elena Rybakina
- Greet Minnen vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Catherine Harrison
- Claire Liu vs. Alize Cornet
- Qiang Wang vs. Heather Watson
- Dalma Galfi vs. Kaja Juvan
- Katarzyna Kawa vs. Ons Jabeur
- Panna Udvardy vs. Elise Mertens
- Maria Sakkari vs. Viktoriya Tomova: wednesday
- Maja Chwalinska vs. Alison Riske: wednesday
- Diane Parry beat Mai Hontama (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Angelique Kerber (15) beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 6-3
- Caroline Garcia beat Emma Raducanu (10): 6-3, 6-3
- Marie Bouzkova beat Ann Li: 6-0, 6-3
- Jelena Ostapenko beat Yanina Wickmayer (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Tatjana Maria beat Sorana Cirstea (26): 6-3, 1-6, 7-5
- Jule Niemeier beat Anett Kontaveit (2): 6-4, 6-0
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Anhelina Kalinina (29): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Shuai Zhang (33) beat Marta Kostyuk: 7-6 (6), 6-2