World No. 7 Coco Gauff wanted simply 54 minutes to beat Tamara Kolpacz 6-2, 6-1 on Monday to advance to the second spherical of Wimbledon. This was the quickest victory by an American in a grass-court main.
It was Gauff’s first win on grass since defeating Sonai Kartal within the third spherical at Wimbledon in 2024, ending her dropping streak on the bottom at 4.
Gauff received 88% of her first serve factors, her second highest rating of the event after her match towards Kartal (90%). The three matches she misplaced on Monday have been tied for essentially the most at Wimbledon.
Gauff will face the winner of Solana Sierra vs. Anna Bondar within the second spherical. She is 2-0 towards Sierra however has by no means confronted Bondar.
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka did not want a lot time to advance previous Gauff, successful her opening match towards Teodora Kostovic 6-2, 6-3 in 64 minutes, the second-fastest of her Wimbledon profession.
Sabalenka has received 23 consecutive first-round matches at main tournaments up till the 2020 US Open, making her the second-longest successful streak amongst lively feminine gamers after Iga Swiatek (26 consecutive wins). Sabalenka’s final opening spherical loss at a serious was towards Carla Suarez Navarro on the 2020 Australian Open.
Ready for Sabalenka within the second spherical shall be McCartney Kessler, who turned the primary unseeded girl to attain a double bagel at Wimbledon since Mary Pearce in 2003, when she defeated Oleksandra Olnikova on Monday. Sabalenka received her solely match at Indian Wells in 2025.
In different girls’s matches, Naomi Osaka made one other trend assertion as she walked on in a flowing kimono earlier than her 6-1, 7-5 victory over Elsa Jacquemot. And French Open champion Mila Andreeva defeated Magda Lynette 7-5, 6-4.
French Open finalist Maja Chwalinska, who wanted a wild card spot, misplaced to Manachaya Sawankaeo 2-6, 7-5, 6-2.
ESPN Analysis and The Related Press contributed to this report.
