Wimbledon: Giant killer Cornet to face Rybakina in round 2
Alize Cornet beat Nao Hibino 6-2, 6-2 on Wednesday evening and will play Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 3 seed, in the next round
Tennis – Wimbledon – All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, Britain – July 2, 2022 France’s Alize Cornet reacts during her third round match against Poland’s Iga Swiatek || AI / Reuters / Panoramic
Frenchwoman Alize Cornet defeated Japanese lucky loser Nao Hibino 6-2, 6-2 to move into the second round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Wednesday evening.
Cornet, ranked No 74, will play Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 3 seed, next.
That could be a tricky contest for the defending champion – Cornet owns a 3-1 lifetime record against the top 10 at Wimbledon, including two wins over reigning world No 1 players.
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London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 2.000.000, most recent results first):
- Karolina Muchova vs. Jule Niemeier
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Rebecca Marino
- Linda Noskova vs. Dalma Galfi
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Petra Kvitova
- Anna Bondar vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Sonay Kartal vs. Madison Keys
- Yanina Wickmayer vs. Anna Blinkova
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Xiyu Wang: wednesday
- Madison Brengle beat Sara Errani: 6-3, 6-1
- Alison Riske-Amritraj vs. Paula Badosa: wednesday
- Natalija Stevanovic (Q) beat Karolina Pliskova (18): 6-2, 6-3
- Anastasia Potapova (22) beat Celine Naef (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Viktoriya Tomova beat Bernarda Pera (27): 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-3
- Tamara Korpatsch (LL) beat Carol Zhao (Q): 1-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Barbora Krejcikova (10) beat Heather Watson (WC): 6-2, 7-5
- Kaja Juvan (Q) beat Margarita Betova: 6-0, 6-3
- Katie Boulter (WC) beat Daria Saville: 7-6 (4), 6-2
- Jelena Ostapenko (17) beat Greet Minnen (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Varvara Gracheva beat Camila Giorgi: 6-2, 6-4
- Zhuoxuan Bai (Q) beat Ysaline Bonaventure: 7-6, 6-1
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (21) beat Emma Navarro: 6-4, 6-3
- Marta Kostyuk beat Maria Sakkari (8): 0-6, 7-5, 6-2
- Sorana Cirstea beat Tatjana Maria: 6-1, 2-6, 6-3
- Jaqueline Cristian beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 6-4
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (13) beat Yulia Putintseva: 3-6, 6-0, 6-4
- Anett Kontaveit beat Lucrezia Stefanini (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Donna Vekic (20) beat Shuai Zhang: 6-2, 6-3
- 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 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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