Wimbledon Iga Swiatek expedited to advance to third round

(Wimbledon) World number one Iga Swiatek didn’t hang around the court on Wednesday, advancing to the third round of the Wimbledon tournament in an expeditious 6-2, 6-0 fashion against Spaniard Sara Tormo (84^e).

The suspense did not last long, the Polish breaking on her opponent’s first service game.

Tormo broke well in stride, but the sequel was almost a formality, Swiatek leaving him only one game and not conceding a break point in the whole match.

In the end, it only took her 1h10 to reach the third round, where she will face the Croatian Petra Martic (29^e world player) or the French Diane Parry (96^e).

Holger Rune wins his first game on the London turf

The Danish Holger Rune, 6^e world, has already proven himself on all surfaces, but he won his first match on Wednesday on the grass of Wimbledon by beating in the first round the Briton George Loffhagen (371^e and guest) 7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 6-2.

The match was interrupted by rain on Tuesday as Rune had just won a hung first set.

On Wednesday’s resumption, he was much more dominant.

At 20, he will face the Spaniard Roberto Carbales (57^e) or the Italian from the qualifications Matteo Arnaldi (80^e) to try to make it to the third round.

Maria Sakkari, 8^e seeded, out in first round

Greek player Maria Sakkari, seeded number 8 at the Wimbledon women’s tournament, was eliminated in the first round by Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (36^e) 0-6, 7-5, 6-2.

In a match interrupted twice by rain, Sakkari went it alone in the first set dispatched in 27 minutes.

But Kostyuk woke up next, leading 5-3 in the second set before losing her engagement as she served to tie it one set all.

The Ukrainian managed to redo the break in stride to secure the win of the set at 7-5.

She then clearly had the upper hand, breaking at 3^e and 5^e games to lead 5-1 and finish on his first match point at 6-2.

Medvedev tames a tough Fery

Russian player and seeded number 3 in the men’s draw, Daniil Medvedev, had to work hard to qualify in three sets 7-5, 6-4, 6-3 against Briton Arthur Féry, 391^e world in the first round.

For his very first match in the main draw of a big tournament, Féry, who received an invitation, managed to erase breaks against him in the first and second sets.

With his game while touching and not hesitating to get to the net, despite a rather modest size (1.74m), he considerably hampered the Russian whose best result on the London turf so far has been an eighth finals in 2021.

But the power of Medvedev, notably with seven aces and 45 winning points, against 24 for Féry, ended up making the difference.

Daria Kasatkina wins

Russian player Daria Kasatkina, seeded number 11, was the first to qualify on a day that was again heavily disturbed by rain by crushing Great Britain’s Jodie Burrage 6-0, 6-2.

While 87 matches were scheduled for the third day, after Tuesday’s had already been considerably truncated by bad weather, the matches not only started late, but they were also interrupted twice to cover the courts.

Even at the Central, where Kasatkina’s match was being played, the roof of which had been left open, a small downpour had forced the two players to return to the locker room for a few minutes in the second set.

That didn’t stop the Russian player, who won the grass-court tournament at Eastbourne last week, from getting serious about qualifying for the third round.

Against Burrage, who received an invitation, she was ruthless, winning 6-2, 6-0 in just over an hour, without interruption of play.

The next match on the Central must oppose the world number one, the Polish Iga Swiatek, to the Spaniard Sara Sorribes.