Bianca Andreescu moves up to second round at Wimbledon

LONDON –

Bianca Andreescu continued her profitable grass-court season with a convincing 6-1, 6-3 win over Emina Bektas in first-round motion at Wimbledon on Tuesday.

Andreescu gained 91 per cent of first-serve factors and transformed 5 of 10 break-point possibilities in a match that took simply 54 minutes to finish.

It is the primary time the 22-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., has superior to the second spherical on the All England Membership.

She can be coming off her first grass-court closing, making it to the championship match final week at Unhealthy Homburg, Germany, earlier than falling 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4 to France’s Caroline Garcia.

Andreescu will subsequent face seventeenth seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed June 28, 2022.