No 2 seed Coco Gauff shakes off “flashbacks”, books spot in second round at Wimbledon

Second seed Coco Gauff advanced to the second round of Wimbledon by winning against Caroline Dolehide 6-1, 6-2 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Monday evening.

She was happy that she was able to avoid a first-round loss like the one she suffered last year at Wimbledon to compatriot Sofia Kenin.

“I think I learned a lot from that moment,” Gauff said. “I was nervous going into today and I kind of felt like I was having those flashbacks of last year. But I just told myself to relax. Last year I feel like it was so much pressure just to get out of that first round, this year I’m just coming in relaxed – I’m just like it couldn’t get any worse and I’ve already done better than last year.”

Gauff is the youngest top-two seed at Wimbledon since Maria Sharapova in 2007. The 20-year-old has won all six sets she has played against Dolehide as she improved to 33-10 on the 2024 season.

The American is anchoring what is perceived to be a wide open half of the women’s draw, especially after the withdrawal of three top-25 seeds – No 3 Aryna Sabalenka, No 16 Victoria Azarenka and No 22 Ekaterina Alexandrova – on Monday.

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Gauff, ranked No 2, will face Romanian qualifier Anca Todoni next.

London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 50.000.000, most recent results first):

• 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
• Elena Rybakina vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
• Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Bernarda Pera vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Caroline Garcia vs. Anna Blinkova
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Jessica Pegula
• Xinyu Wang vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Harriet Dart vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
• Laura Siegemund vs. Kateryna Baindl
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Ana Bogdan
• Sara Errani vs. Linda Noskova: monday
• Emma Navarro (19) beat Qiang Wang: 6-0, 6-2
• Paula Badosa vs. Karolina Muchova: monday
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Jaqueline Cristian: monday
• Brenda Fruhvirtova vs. Mirra Andreeva: monday
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Sonay Kartal: monday
• 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 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