Wimbledon: Former Grand Slam champion Stephens makes second round, meets 20th seed Vekic next

American Sloane Stephens beat Swede Rebecca Peterson 6-2, 6-3 to advance to the second round of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Wednesday afternoon.

Stephens, ranked No 39, will play Croatian Donna Vekic, the No 20 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):

• Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Rebecca Marino
• Linda Noskova vs. Dalma Galfi
• Karolina Muchova vs. Jule Niemeier
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Petra Kvitova
• Anna Bondar vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Yanina Wickmayer vs. Anna Blinkova
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Sonay Kartal vs. Madison Keys
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Xiyu Wang
• Nao Hibino vs. Alize Cornet
• Bernarda Pera vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Carol Zhao vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Natalija Stevanovic
• Madison Brengle vs. Sara Errani
• Kaja Juvan vs. Margarita Betova
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Celine Naef
• Alison Riske-Amritraj vs. Paula Badosa
• Katie Boulter vs. Daria Saville
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Camila Giorgi
• Emma Navarro vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Greet Minnen vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Ysaline Bonaventure vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
• Heather Watson vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Maria Sakkari vs. Marta Kostyuk: wednesday
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Tatjana Maria: wednesday
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Lucia Bronzetti: wednesday
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Yulia Putintseva: wednesday
• Anett Kontaveit vs. Lucrezia Stefanini: wednesday
• Shuai Zhang vs. Donna Vekic: wednesday
• Camila Osorio vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto: wednesday
• Danielle Collins vs. Julia Grabher: wednesday
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Panna Udvardy: 6-3, 6-1
• Ons Jabeur (6) beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-3
• Elena Rybakina (3) beat Shelby Rogers: 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
• Marie Bouzkova (32) beat Simona Waltert (Q): 6-1, 6-4
• Sofia Kenin (Q) beat Coco Gauff (7): 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
• Katerina Siniakova beat Qinwen Zheng (24): 6-3, 7-5
• Rebeka Masarova beat Mayar Sherif (31): 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (6)
• Elise Mertens (28) beat Viktoria Hruncakova (Q): 7-6 (2), 6-2
• Elina Svitolina (WC) beat Venus Williams (WC): 6-4, 6-3
• Belinda Bencic (14) beat Katie Swan (WC): 7-5, 6-2
• Daria Kasatkina (11) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-1, 6-4
• Xinyu Wang beat Storm Hunter (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Jodie Burrage (WC) beat Catherine McNally: 6-1, 6-3
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Peyton Stearns: 6-2, 7-5
• Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Martina Trevisan: 6-3, 6-1
• Magda Linette (23) beat Jil Teichmann: 6-3, 6-2
• Leylah Fernandez beat Kateryna Baindl: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Caroline Garcia (5) 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