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Elena Rybakina comforted Alize Cornet aft she fell heavy down the baselineDefending Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina reached the 3rd circular with a laboured triumph implicit an injury-hampered Alize Cornet.
Kazakh Rybakina took the opener but was battling successful a choky 2nd acceptable earlier France's Cornet fell heavy and severely injured her already-strapped close leg.
Cornet continued aft receiving attraction but Rybakina came done 6-2 7-6 (7-2).
Rybakina volition look Britain's Katie Boulter successful the adjacent round.
Cornet, ranked 74 successful the world, has a past of causing upsets astatine SW19, having beaten Serena Williams successful the 3rd circular successful 2014 and ending satellite fig 1 Iga Swiatek's 37-match winning streak past year.
But from the outset the 33-year-old looked uncomfortable against satellite fig 3 Rybakina, slapping her thighs, crying retired and kicking the shot distant successful frustration.
Rybakina took the opening acceptable successful conscionable 26 minutes, with Cornet winning conscionable 1 constituent connected the defending champion's exquisite serve.
Momentum shifted successful the 2nd acceptable arsenic some players held service and Rybakina ran into immoderate frustrations of her own, missing an casual smash-volley and sending elemental shots sailing retired of bounds.
Rybakina saved 5 interruption points successful an epic crippled astatine 5-5 earlier Cornet's fall, with the Kazakh instantly crossing the tribunal to cheque connected her hostile arsenic the aesculapian squad rushed over.
A aesculapian time-out was called aft which, overmuch to the astonishment of the sympathetic Centre Court crowd, Cornet hobbled backmost retired to the baseline, yet forcing a tie-break contempt visibly struggling to move.
Rybakina was capable to exploit Cornet's deficiency of question to contention distant with the breaker earlier the 2 shared a lukewarm handshake astatine the extremity of the match.
Svitolina wins but Muchova out
Ukrainian wildcard Elina Svitolina beat Belgian 28th effect Elise Mertens 6-1 1-6 6-1 successful a lucifer of contrasting sets to scope the 3rd round.
The 28-year-old dominated the opening acceptable earlier appearing to conflict with thing successful her oculus successful the second, but regained her signifier aft a aesculapian time-out to instrumentality victory.
The triumph mightiness beryllium seen arsenic an upset, but the satellite fig 76 has reached the semi-finals of 2 Grand Slams and lone fell down the rankings aft stepping distant from the athletics to person a babe past year.
Svitolina volition look 2020 Australian Open victor Sofia Kenin successful the 3rd circular aft the American qualifier eased past China's Wang Xinyu 6-4 6-3 connected Thursday.
Another Ukrainian, Anhelina Kalinina, besides won aft waiting an other 2 days to play her first-round lucifer against Spain's Jessica Bouzas Maneiro - which she won 6-4 6-3 - due to the fact that of rainfall delays astatine the All England Club.
Czech 16th effect Karlina Muchova suffered a daze first-round exit to Jule Niemeier aft sustaining a limb wounded erstwhile she fell implicit successful the deciding set, going down 6-4 5-7 to the German, who is ranked 87 places beneath her.
There were comeback victories for Croatian 20th effect Donna Vekic, who overturned a one-set shortage to bushed American Sloane Stephens 6-4 7-5 6-4 portion Swiss 14th effect Belinda Bencic achieved the aforesaid feat to flooded American Danielle Collins 3-6 6-4 6-6 (7-2).
An affectional Anett Kontaveit played her past singles lucifer arsenic the erstwhile satellite fig 2 suffered a 6-1 6-2 second-round decision by Czech subordinate Marie Bouzkova but volition play successful the mixed doubles alongside Finland's Emil Ruusuvuori earlier she retires aged 27.
Two-time large champion Victoria Azarenka also precocious with a 6-3 6-0 triumph implicit Argentina's Nadia Podoroska, portion erstwhile US Open victor Bianca Andreescu won her delayed first-round lucifer against Anna Bondar 6-3 3-6 6-2.
Andreeva 'too shy' to speech to Murray
Mirra Andreeva came done 3 rounds of qualifying to scope the Wimbledon main drawTeenager Mirra Andreeva, playing her archetypal elder grass-court tournament, precocious to the 3rd circular erstwhile Czech 10th effect Barbora Krejcikova retired trailing 6-3 4-0.
The 16-year-old Andreeva, who reached the 3rd circular astatine Roland Garros past month, came done qualifying to scope the main draw, having ne'er played connected writer before.
Andreeva antecedently credited Britain's Andy Murray for inspiring her to triumph the archetypal Grand Slam lucifer of her vocation successful Paris.
"I met Andy Murray here. But I'm excessively shy to speech to him," she said connected Wednesday.
"When I spot him, I effort to permission the installation ace speedy conscionable to not to speech to him due to the fact that I'm ace shy."
Andreeva, who volition either play Russian compatriot Anastasia Potapova oregon chap qualifier Kaja Juvan next, said she hopes to play connected Centre Court if she makes a heavy tally astatine SW19.
"Before I would beryllium decidedly frightened to play connected the Centre Court, but present I privation to play connected the tribunal with tribunes," she said.
"If possibly the supervisors volition spot this property conference, I volition archer straightaway I privation to play connected the tribunal with tribunes."
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