Defending champion Elena Rybakina faces Alize Cornet in the second round of The Championships Wimbledon 2023 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Thursday.
The clash is scheduled to be the second match on the Centre Court on the fourth day of this year’s edition.
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World No. 3 Rybakina, who won her maiden Major title at last year’s edition, comes into the second-round after a nervous 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 victory over American Shelby Rogers. The third-seeded Kazakh’s match against Rogers was watched by eight-time men’s champion Roger Federer, who sat in the Royal Box.
Frenchwoman Cornet, a former World No. 11, began her campaign with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Japan’s Nao Hibino, a lucky loser.
Cornet famously ended World No. 1 Iga Swiatek’s 37-match unbeaten streak last year with a 6-4, 6-2 victory against the Pole in the third round. Overall, she has won her last three matches against Top 5 players at the Slams.
Head-to-head record
Played: 2 | Cornet: 0 | Rybakina: 2
Rybakina and Cornet have faced each other twice with the Kazakh winning on both occasions. The first time they took on each other was in the second round of the WTA event in Hobart in 2020 where Rybakina triumphed 7-5, 6-3.
Their second meeting took place in the same year in the second round of the WTA event in Strasbourg where Rybakina again won 6-3, 7-6(8).
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