Wimbledon: Wang Xinyu beats Dart to set up last 16 clash against Svitolina
Xinyu Wang won against Harriet Dart 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 on Saturday and will play Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 21 seed, in the next round
Chinese Xinyu Wang won against Harriet Dart 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 to move into the last 16 of Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Saturday.
Wang, ranked No 42, will play Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 21 seed, next.
The 22-year-old Chinese beat Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova (7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-0) and American Jessica Pegula, the No 5 seed (6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-1) earlier in the tournament.
In the previous rounds of The Championships, Dart, ranked No 100, won against Chinese qualifier Zhuoxuan Bai (6-4, 6-0) and edged out No 32 seed Katie Boulter (4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (8)).
All you ever wanted to know about Elina Svitolina (tennismajors.com)(All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 50.000.000, most recent results first):
- Elena Rybakina vs. Caroline Wozniacki: saturday
- Danielle Collins vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Elina Svitolina beat Ons Jabeur (10): 6-1, 7-6 (4)
- Yulia Putintseva beat Iga Swiatek (1): 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
- Jelena Ostapenko (13) beat Bernarda Pera: 6-1, 6-3
- Anna Kalinskaya (17) beat Liudmila Samsonova (15): 7-6 (4), 6-2
- Barbora Krejcikova (31) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-0, 4-3 ret.
- Emma Raducanu (WC) beat Maria Sakkari (9): 6-2, 6-3
- Coco Gauff (2) beat Sonay Kartal (Q): 6-4, 6-0
- Donna Vekic beat Dayana Yastremska (28): 7-6 (4), 6-7 (3), 6-1
- Madison Keys (12) beat Marta Kostyuk (18): 6-4, 6-3
- Emma Navarro (19) beat Diana Shnaider: 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Paula Badosa beat Daria Kasatkina (14): 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-4
- Jasmine Paolini (7) beat Bianca Andreescu: 7-6 (4), 6-1
- Lulu Sun (Q) beat Lin Zhu: 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6)