Wimbledon: Vekic through to second round, to meet Stephens next
Donna Vekic beat Shuai Zhang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday. She’ll play American Sloane Stephens in the next round
Donna Vekic in Nottingham (Action Plus/Panoramic)
Croat Donna Vekic, the No 20 seed, advanced to the second round of Wimbledon by winning against Chinese Shuai Zhang 6-2, 6-3 at the All England Lawn Club in London on Wednesday afternoon.
Vekic, ranked No 21, will play American Sloane Stephens next.
London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 2.000.000, most recent results first):
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Rebecca Marino
- Linda Noskova vs. Dalma Galfi
- Karolina Muchova vs. Jule Niemeier
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Petra Kvitova
- Anna Bondar vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Yanina Wickmayer vs. Anna Blinkova
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Sonay Kartal vs. Madison Keys
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Xiyu Wang
- Nao Hibino vs. Alize Cornet
- Bernarda Pera vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Carol Zhao vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Natalija Stevanovic
- Heather Watson vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Celine Naef
- Greet Minnen vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Camila Giorgi: wednesday
- Madison Brengle vs. Sara Errani
- Kaja Juvan vs. Margarita Betova
- Alison Riske-Amritraj vs. Paula Badosa
- Katie Boulter vs. Daria Saville
- Ysaline Bonaventure vs. Zhuoxuan Bai: wednesday
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (21) beat Emma Navarro: 6-4, 6-3
- Maria Sakkari vs. Marta Kostyuk: wednesday
- Sorana Cirstea beat Tatjana Maria: 6-1, 2-6, 6-3
- Jaqueline Cristian beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 6-4
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Yulia Putintseva: wednesday
- Anett Kontaveit beat Lucrezia Stefanini (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Sloane Stephens beat Rebecca Peterson: 6-2, 6-3
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Camila Osorio: 6-3, 6-4
- Danielle Collins beat Julia Grabher: 6-4, 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Panna Udvardy: 6-3, 6-1
- Ons Jabeur (6) beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-3
- Elena Rybakina (3) beat Shelby Rogers: 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
- 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
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