Wimbledon: Fernandez notches first Wimbledon win
Leylah Fernandez edged out Kateryna Baindl 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 on Monday and will face Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 5 seed, in the next round
Canadian Leylah Fernandez edged out Ukrainian Kateryna Baindl 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 to advance to the second round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Monday.
Fernandez cracked 11 winners and saved all three break points she faced in the final set to prevail in two hours and 23 minutes.
The 95th-ranked Canadian had never won a main draw match at Wimbledon before.
Fernandez, ranked No 95, will face Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 5 seed, 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
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Simona Waltert
- Sloane Stephens vs. Rebecca Peterson
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Lucrezia Stefanini
- Shuai Zhang vs. Donna Vekic
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Rebeka Masarova vs. Mayar Sherif
- Camila Osorio vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Sofia Kenin vs. Coco Gauff
- Elise Mertens vs. Viktoria Hruncakova
- Danielle Collins vs. Julia Grabher
- Venus Williams vs. Elina Svitolina
- Katie Swan vs. Belinda Bencic
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Caroline Dolehide: monday
- Storm Hunter vs. Xinyu Wang: monday
- Jodie Burrage vs. Catherine McNally: monday
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Peyton Stearns: monday
- Martina Trevisan vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo: monday
- Magda Linette (23) beat Jil Teichmann: 6-3, 6-2
- Caroline Garcia 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