Wimbledon: Former champion Rybakina through to second round

2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina began her quest for a second Grand Slam title with a straight sets win over Elena-Gabriela Ruse, of Romania, at the All England Club on Tuesday.

Rybakina needed only one hour and 10 minutes to beat the Romanian qualifier 6-3, 6-1. The Kazakh will next face Germany’s Lauta Siegemund in London on Thursday.

Rybakina has had an abbreviated grass court season so far, pulling out of her quarter-final match in Berlin and then withdrawing from Eastbourne.

Since breaking out to win Wimbledon in 2022, the 25-year-old has established herself as one of the most consistent players on the women’s tour, challenging Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff for the major titles.

China’s Xinyu Wang was another winner on Tuesday, beating Viktoriya Tomova 7-6, 3-6, 6-0.

Wimbledon (Grand Slam), first-round matches (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 50,000,000):

• Elena Rybakina (4) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse 6-3, 6-1
• Xinyu Wang beat Viktoriya Tomova 7-6, 3-6, 6-0
• Jessica Pegula (5) beat Ashlyn Krueger 6-2, 6-0
• Harriet Dart beat Zhuoxuan Bai 6-4, 6-0
• Laura Siegemund beat Kateryna Baindl 6-4, 6-1
• Linda Noskova (26) beat Sara Errani: 7-6 (3), 6-1
• Emma Navarro (19) beat Qiang Wang: 6-0, 6-2
• Paula Badosa beat Karolina Muchova: 6-3, 6-2
• Coco Gauff (2) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-1, 6-2
• Bianca Andreescu beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-4, 6-2
• Sonay Kartal (Q) beat Sorana Cirstea (29): 3-6, 6-2, 6-0
• Yuriko Lily Miyazaki (WC) beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-2, 6-1
• Sloane Stephens beat Elsa Jacquemot (LL): 6-3, 6-3
• Yulia Starodubtseva (Q) beat Alison Van Uytvanck: 6-4, 6-3
• Emma Raducanu (WC) beat Renata Zarazua (LL): 7-6, 6-3
• Erika Andreeva (LL) beat Emina Bektas: 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3
• Donna Vekic beat Xiyu Wang: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Lulu Sun (Q) beat Qinwen Zheng (8): 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Clara Burel beat Eva Lys (Q): 6-2, 6-4
• Daria Saville beat Peyton Stearns: 6-4, 6-2
• Naomi Osaka (WC) beat Diane Parry: 6-1, 1-6, 6-4
• Madison Keys (12) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Diana Shnaider beat Karolina Pliskova: 4-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Yafan Wang beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-0, 3-6, 6-4
• Jasmine Paolini (7) beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 7-5, 6-3
• Arantxa Rus beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 6-3
• Elise Mertens beat Nao Hibino: 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
• 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
• Magda Linette vs. Elina Svitolina
• Ons Jabeur vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Katie Volynets
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Magdalena Frech vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Camila Osorio vs. Lauren Davis
• Danielle Collins vs. Clara Tauson
• Francesca Jones vs. Petra Martic
• Iga Swiatek vs. Sofia Kenin
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Jule Niemeier
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Alycia Parks
• Oceane Dodin vs. Daria Snigur
• Robin Montgomery vs. Olivia Gadecki
• Mayar Sherif vs. Dalma Galfi
• Marina Stakusic vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Angelique Kerber
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Katie Boulter vs. Tatjana Maria
• Rebeka Masarova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Julia Riera
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Panna Udvardy
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Bernarda Pera vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Caroline Garcia vs. Anna Blinkova
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Ana Bogdan