Defending champion Barbora Krejcikova continued her title defence with victory in spherical two as the highest seeds bucked the development of early exits to advance on day 4 at Wimbledon.
Czech participant Krejcikova secured a 6-4 4-6 6-2 win over American Caroline Dolehide, whereas there have been additionally wins for seventh seed Mirra Andreeva, tenth seed Emma Navarro and eleventh seed Elena Rybakina.
It comes after 16 seeded gamers tumbled out of the ladies’s singles draw within the opening three days with 9 top-10 seeds throughout the lads’s and girls’s singles attracts out.
It’s simply the second time within the Open period that solely one of many 5 top-seeded gamers – Aryna Sabalenka on this case – has made it by to the third spherical of the ladies’s singles at a Grand Slam occasion.
It leaves the ladies’s draw open for a possible shock victor to take the Venus Rosewater Dish on the finish of the fortnight, with the final seven girls’s singles titles going to totally different gamers.
Serena Williams was the final participant to efficiently defend the trophy, profitable back-to-back titles in 2015 and 2016.