Belarusian Victoria Azarenka has defeated American Catherine Bellis, ranked 40th, in the first round of the Wimbledon tournament. Tomorrow, Azarenka will face the world’s number 16 Elena Vesnina of Russia. The tennis players have played against each other 7 times, victory always going to the Belarusian.
Another Belarusian tennis player Arina Sobolenko, who defeated Russian Irina Khromachyova in yesterday’s match, will continue competing for entering the Wimbledon 1/16 finals against German Carina Witthoft.
Alexandra Sasnovich has lost the starting round to the world’s number 13 Jeļena Ostapenko of Latvia, who won last year’s Roland Garros.
Live Wimbledon broadcasts from London are available on the TV channel Belarus 5.
