Wimbledon: Martic makes third round
Petra Martic won against Kristina Kucova 7-6 (4), 6-3 on Thursday. She’ll play American Jessica Pegula, the No 8 seed, in the next round
Croat Petra Martic advanced to the third round of Wimbledon by defeating Slovak Kristina Kucova 7-6 (4), 6-3 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Thursday afternoon.
Martic, ranked No 80, will face American Jessica Pegula, the No 8 seed, next.
The Croat won against American Shelby Rogers, the No 30 seed (6-2, 7-6 (5)) in the previous round.
In the previous round, Kucova, ranked No 91, beat Brazilian Laura Pigossi (7-5, 6-0).
London (Grand Slam), other second-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 40.350.000, most recent results first):
- Coco Gauff vs. Mihaela Buzarnescu
- Kirsten Flipkens vs. Simona Halep
- Lauren Davis vs. Amanda Anisimova: thursday
- Iga Swiatek vs. Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove: thursday
- Magdalena Frech vs. Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova: thursday
- Jessica Pegula beat Harriet Dart: 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
- Barbora Krejcikova (13) beat Viktorija Golubic: 6-3, 6-4
- Harmony Tan beat Sara Sorribes Tormo (32): 6-3, 6-4
- Heather Watson beat Qiang Wang: 7-5, 6-4
- Katie Boulter (WC) beat Karolina Pliskova (6): 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Elena Rybakina (17) beat Bianca Andreescu: 6-4, 7-6 (5)
- Elise Mertens (24) beat Panna Udvardy: 3-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5
- Qinwen Zheng beat Greet Minnen: 6-4, 6-1
- Petra Kvitova (25) beat Ana Bogdan: 6-1, 7-6 (5)
- Ajla Tomljanovic beat Catherine Harrison (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Alize Cornet beat Claire Liu: 6-3, 6-3
- Paula Badosa (4) beat Irina Bara: 6-3, 6-2
- Kaja Juvan beat Dalma Galfi: 7-5, 6-3
- Ons Jabeur (3) beat Katarzyna Kawa (Q): 6-4, 6-0
- Maria Sakkari (5) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-4, 6-3
- Irina-Camelia Begu beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-4, 6-4
- Alison Riske (28) beat Maja Chwalinska (Q): 3-6, 6-1, 6-0
- Diane Parry beat Mai Hontama (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Angelique Kerber (15) beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 6-3
- Caroline Garcia beat Emma Raducanu (10): 6-3, 6-3
- Marie Bouzkova beat Ann Li: 6-0, 6-3
- Jelena Ostapenko (12) beat Yanina Wickmayer (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Tatjana Maria beat Sorana Cirstea (26): 6-3, 1-6, 7-5
- Jule Niemeier beat Anett Kontaveit (2): 6-4, 6-0
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Anhelina Kalinina (29): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Shuai Zhang (33) beat Marta Kostyuk: 7-6 (6), 6-2
