Wimbledon: Elise Mertens eges Hibino, reaches second round
Elise Mertens edged out Nao Hibino 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 on Monday and will play the winner of the match between Mexican lucky loser Renata Zarazua and wildcard Emma Raducanu in the next round
Elise Mertens at Wimbledon in 2021 © AI / Reuters / Panoramic
Belgian Elise Mertens edged out Japanese Nao Hibino 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 to move into the second round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Monday afternoon.
Mertens, ranked No 33, will face the winner of the match between Mexican lucky loser Renata Zarazua and wildcard Emma Raducanu next.
The Belgian has reached the second week at Wimbledon twice in her career, in 2019 and 2022.
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London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 50.000.000, most recent results first):
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Jessica Pegula
- Xinyu Wang vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Harriet Dart vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
- Katie Boulter vs. Tatjana Maria
- Magda Linette vs. Elina Svitolina
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Jule Niemeier
- Robin Montgomery vs. Olivia Gadecki
- Ons Jabeur vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Rebeka Masarova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Julia Riera
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Panna Udvardy
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Alycia Parks
- Laura Siegemund vs. Kateryna Baindl
- Elena Rybakina vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Ana Bogdan
- Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Katie Volynets
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Magdalena Frech vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Camila Osorio vs. Lauren Davis
- Mayar Sherif vs. Dalma Galfi
- Danielle Collins vs. Clara Tauson
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Oceane Dodin vs. Daria Snigur
- Bernarda Pera vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Caroline Garcia vs. Anna Blinkova
- Marina Stakusic vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Angelique Kerber
- Francesca Jones vs. Petra Martic
- Iga Swiatek vs. Sofia Kenin
- Qiang Wang vs. Emma Navarro
- Paula Badosa vs. Karolina Muchova
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Coco Gauff
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Sloane Stephens
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Brenda Fruhvirtova vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Sara Errani vs. Linda Noskova
- Alison Van Uytvanck vs. Yulia Starodubtseva
- Eva Lys vs. Clara Burel
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Sonay Kartal
- Naomi Osaka vs. Diane Parry
- Emina Bektas vs. Erika Andreeva
- Donna Vekic vs. Xiyu Wang
- Tamara Korpatsch vs. Yuriko Lily Miyazaki
- Renata Zarazua vs. Emma Raducanu
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Lulu Sun
- Martina Trevisan vs. Madison Keys
- Daria Saville vs. Peyton Stearns
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Diana Shnaider: monday
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Yafan Wang: monday
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo: monday
- Arantxa Rus beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 6-3
- 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
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