2018 Wimbledon – Women's second round matches

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4 July 2018
ESPN News Services

LONDON – Caroline Wozniacki made another early exit The champion Australia's Open lost 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 against Ekaterina Makarova, of Russia, in a second-round match after being disturbed by a swarm of flying insects in the second set.

Wozniacki never spent the knockout stages at Wimbledon, and it's the fourth time in seven years that she has lost in the first or second round.

The second-seeded Dane saved four match points at 5-3 in the final. put it before breaking to level the match. But she was broken again in the last match

Wozniacki complained to the chair referee of the insects that she was using.

She is the fifth of the first eight women to lose before the third round. [19659009] Serena Williams continued her return to Wimbledon with a thrilling 6-1, 6-4 victory over Viktoriya Tomova.

The seven-time champion lost just five of 32 points in her first serve while she was taking a Williams was unable to defend her Wimbledon title 2016 last year because she was pregnant.

Despite his ranking dropped to 181, Williams is seeded 25th this year.

The 36-year-old American faces Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic, who defeated German Tatjana Maria 6-2, 6-2. Mladenovic, 62nd, was only slowed by a 30-minute rain delay as she headed for victory without facing a break point.

Venus Williams, five-time Wimbledon champion, once again

The No. 9 seed, at age 38, the oldest in the draw, came back to beat the 141st qualifier Alexandra Dulgheru, from Romania, 4-6, 6-0, 6-1 to reach third place.

Williams was shattered in the first game and did not recover in the opening set, in which she made 12 unforced errors, twice as many as Dulgheru. Nine of them were stray forehands

But the American, runner-up at Wimbledon a year ago, then won seven straight games.

In the first round, Williams began by giving up a tiebreaker against 58th-ranked Johanna Larsson before taking 12 of the last 15 games

Karolina Pliskova advanced to the third round for the first time with a win from 6-3, 6-3 against Victoria Azarenka.

Pliskova, seventh seeded, was not faced She had a break when meeting with the two former Center Court players.

This is the sixth time in seven appearances at Wimbledon that the US Open Vice Champion Pliskova In the second round, she had not managed to go further

Azarenka, two-time champion of the Australian Open, was vulnerable to his second serve, scoring only seven points out of 18.

Pliskova will be the 29th seed. Mihaela Buzarnescu, after the Romanian defeated the British wild card Katie Sw a 6-0, 6-3

Day 3 was prematurely ended by rain.

The information from the Associated Press was used in this report.