Top seed Swiatek through to third round

Top seed Iga Swiatek reached nan 3rd information of nan women's singles pinch a tenacious straight-set triumph complete Petra Martic connected Centre Court astatine Wimbledon.

Croatian Martic pushed nan Polish world number 1 successful moments but mislaid her service precocious successful some sets successful Swiatek's 6-4 6-3 win.

She besides needed a lengthy aesculapian timeout for a backmost wounded successful nan opening set.

Swiatek's triumph extended her formidable triumph streak to 21 matches.

The 23-year-old is simply a five-time Grand Slam winner, though she has struggled connected writer successful nan past, and has ne'er precocious beyond nan quarter-finals astatine SW19.

Swiatek will look Yulia Putintseva successful nan 3rd information pinch nan Kazakh subordinate upsetting Czech 27th seed Katerina Siniakova 6-0 4-6 6-2 earlier connected time four.

Elsewhere successful nan women's draw, American 5th seed Jessica Pegula became nan highest-ranked casualty astatine this year's singles erstwhile she was beaten by world number 42 Wang Xinyu.

The Chinese subordinate won 6-4 6-7 (7-9) 6-1 connected tribunal 3 to group up a third-round necktie pinch Britain's Harriet Dart.

Pegula had looked successful formidable shape connected grass, reaching nan last of Eastbourne and winning her first-round necktie astatine Wimbledon in conscionable 49 minutes.

But plentifulness of different seeds recorded ascendant straight-set wins connected a wind-affected time successful southbound London.

Ons Jabeur, runner-up astatine nan past 2 Wimbledons, hit American Robin Montgomery 6-1 7-5.

The Tunisian 10th seed will return connected 21st seed Elina Svitolina successful nan 3rd information aft nan Ukrainian overcame German Jule Niemeier 6-3 6-4.

American 11th seed Danielle Collins hit Hungary's Dalma Galfi 6-3 6-4 and will look 20th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia adjacent aft nan Brazilian benefitted from a walkover.

Madison Keys, a quarter-finalist past year's, hit China's Wang Yafan 6-2 6-2, while 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko defeated Ukraine's Daria Snigur 6-3 6-0.