Wozniacki beats qualifier Parks for first Wimbledon win since 2018
The former world No 1 will play Canadian Leylah Fernandez, the No 30 seed, in the next round
Danish wildcard Caroline Wozniacki reached the second round of Wimbledon by winning against American qualifier Alycia Parks 6-2, 6-0 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Tuesday evening.
This was the Dane’s first win at Wimbledon since she reached the fourth round in 2018.
Wozniacki, ranked No 91, will play Canadian Leylah Fernandez, the No 30 seed, next. Parks was coming into the match with nine consecutive wins, after winning a WTA $125K title and three matches in qualifying last week.
Wimbledon (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 50.000.000, most recent results first):
- Ons Jabeur (10) beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-3, 6-1
- Daria Snigur (Q) beat Oceane Dodin: 6-4, 6-0
- Katerina Siniakova (27) beat Marina Stakusic (Q): 6-4, 6-2
- Dalma Galfi (Q) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-1, 6-2
- Yulia Putintseva beat Angelique Kerber (WC): 7-5, 6-3
- Petra Martic beat Francesca Jones (WC): 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
- Robin Montgomery (Q) beat Olivia Gadecki (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Caroline Garcia (23) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 7-5
- Leylah Fernandez beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-4, 6-3
- Elina Avanesyan beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-2, 6-3
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Sofia Kenin: 6-3, 6-4
- Jelena Ostapenko (13) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (WC): 6-1, 6-2
- Marie Bouzkova beat Julia Riera: 6-2, 6-1
- Katie Boulter (32) beat Tatjana Maria: 7-6 (6), 7-5
- Anna Kalinskaya (17) beat Panna Udvardy (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Bernarda Pera beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (6)
- Liudmila Samsonova (15) beat Rebeka Masarova: 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Marketa Vondrousova (6): 6-4, 6-2
- Elena Rybakina (4) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Jessica Pegula (5) beat Ashlyn Krueger: 6-2, 6-0
- Laura Siegemund beat Kateryna Baindl: 6-4, 6-1
- Xinyu Wang beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-0
- Harriet Dart beat Zhuoxuan Bai (Q): 6-4, 6-0
- Cristina Bucsa beat Ana Bogdan: 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (5)
- Linda Noskova (26) beat Sara Errani: 7-6 (3), 6-1
- Emma Navarro (19) beat Qiang Wang: 6-0, 6-2
- Paula Badosa beat Karolina Muchova: 6-3, 6-2
- Coco Gauff (2) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-1, 6-2
- Bianca Andreescu beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-4, 6-2
- Brenda Fruhvirtova beat Mirra Andreeva (24): 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Sonay Kartal (Q) beat Sorana Cirstea (29): 3-6, 6-2, 6-0
- 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 (Q) 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
- Danielle Collins vs. Clara Tauson
- Magda Linette vs. Elina Svitolina
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Jule Niemeier
- Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Katie Volynets
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Magdalena Frech vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Camila Osorio vs. Lauren Davis
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