Wimbledon: Azarenka digs deep to edge past Yuan and into the second round

Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 19 seed, edged out Chinese qualifier Yue Yuan 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 to move into the second round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

Azarenka, ranked No 20, will play Argentinian Nadia Podoroska next.

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

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