At Wimbledon in women’s singles completed the first portion of the main matches.
World number two Simona Halep in the match against Marina Erakovic scored his 55th victory in the tournament series Grand slam. Romanian did not show my best tennis, but at the expense of the class confidently overcome the starting barrier. To develop your start-up success Halep will try in the match against Beatriz Haddad Maia.
Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova start to justify the status of favorite of the tournament. In the match against Czech Whanau Larsson created four break and twice lost his serve. In the second round, Kvitova will meet American Madison Brengle.
Venus Williams in a record 20th time started at Wimbledon. American, first played in London in 1997, another step closer to the hundredth jubilee match on the grass. Victory over Alice Mertens became the fivefold champion of Wimbledon 82nd in career on the grass major.
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (26) and Roberta Vinci (31) – first loss of the seeding in women’s singles.
The results of matches of seeded players:
Of Johan Larsson (Sweden) — Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic, 11) — 3:6, 4:6
Alice Mertens (Belgium) — Venus Williams (USA, 10) — 6:7, 4:6
Johanna Konta (Britain, 6) — Xie Su-Wei (Taiwan) — 6:2, 6:2
Marina Erakovic (New Zealand) – Simona Halep (Romania, 2) — 4:6, 1:6
Elena Ostapenko (Latvia, 13) – Alexander Sasnovich (Belarus) — 6:0, 1:6, 6:3
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (Croatia, 26) – Karin Witthoeft (Germany) — 3:6, 7:5, 6:8
Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic, 22) – Veronica Cepede (Paraguay) — 6:3, 6:3
Caroline Garcia (France, 21) – Jan Chepalova (Slovakia) — 6:1, 6:1
Nao hibino (Japan) – Madison keys (USA, 17) — 4:6, 2:6
Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia, 8) – Andrea Petkovic (Germany) — 6:3, 3:6, 9:7
Sabine Lisicki (Germany) Ana Groom (Croatia, 27) — 1:6, 4:6
Kristina Pliskova (Czech Republic) – Roberta Vinci (Italy, 31) — 7:6, 6:2
Elena Vesnina (Russia, 15) — Anna Blinkova (Russia) — 6:4, 5:7, 6:2
Yulia Putintseva (Kazakhstan) – Anastasija Sevastova (Latvia, 18) — 1:6, 6:7
Carla Suarez-Navarro (Spain, 25) — Eugenie Bouchard (Canada) — 1:6, 6:1, 6:1
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