Canada’s Bianca Andreescu moved on to the second round of Wimbledon women’s qualifying with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Polona Hercog on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Andreescu won 84 per cent of first-serve points, 75 per cent of second-serve points and only faced two break points, saving both.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., broke Hercog three times on 12 chances en route to setting up a second-round match with Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann.<\/p>\n
Andreescu, a former world No. 4, lost in the second round of qualifying at the All England Club last year to fellow Canadian Carson Branstine. Her best result at the grass-court Grand Slam is advancing to the third round, which she has done twice.<\/p>\n
Toronto’s Katherine Sebov also moved on with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Argentina’s Jazmin Ortenzi.<\/p>\n
Sebov, who will next face Germany’s Noma Noha Akugue, is looking for her second Grand Slam main draw appearance after a first-round loss at the 2023 Australian Open.<\/p>\n
Canadians Carol Zhao, Cadence Brace and Kayla Cross were defeated in their first-round qualifying matches.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada’s Bianca Andreescu moved on to the second round of Wimbledon women’s qualifying with a 6-4, 6-2 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-757720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}