2023-07-05 16:34:57
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 2 minutes ago, Just updated
Daria Kasatkina. DYLAN MARTINEZ / REUTERS
The No.11 seed got away with it amid interruptions against Britain’s Jodie Burrage 6-0, 6-2.
Russian player Daria Kasatkina, seeded number 11, was the first to qualify on a day again heavily disturbed by the rain, Wednesday at Wimbledon, crushing the Briton 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.
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