Wimbledon: Ostapenko books spot in third round
Jelena Ostapenko won against Yanina Wickmayer 6-2, 6-2 on Wednesday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu in the next round
Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 12 seed, moved into the third round of Wimbledon by winning against Belgian qualifier Yanina Wickmayer 6-2, 6-2 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Wednesday.
Ostapenko, ranked No 17, will play the winner of the match between Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu next.
In the previous round, the Latvian beat Frenchwoman Oceane Dodin (6-4, 6-4).
Yanina Wickmayer defeated Chinese Lin Zhu (6-4, 6-2) in the first round.
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
- Iga Swiatek vs. Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
- Katie Boulter vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Harmony Tan
- Lauren Davis vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Kirsten Flipkens vs. Simona Halep
- Magdalena Frech vs. Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova
- Ana Bogdan vs. Petra Kvitova
- Paula Badosa vs. Irina Bara
- Harriet Dart vs. Jessica Pegula
- Petra Martic vs. Kristina Kucova
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Elena Rybakina
- Greet Minnen vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Catherine Harrison
- Claire Liu vs. Alize Cornet
- Qiang Wang vs. Heather Watson
- Dalma Galfi vs. Kaja Juvan
- Maria Sakkari vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Panna Udvardy vs. Elise Mertens
- Katarzyna Kawa vs. Ons Jabeur
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Irina-Camelia Begu: wednesday
- Maja Chwalinska vs. Alison Riske: wednesday
- Diane Parry vs. Mai Hontama: wednesday
- 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
- 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
