Laura Siegemund has in Wimbledon The third round reached for the first time in her career. The 37-year-old tennis player from Metzingen defeated the former US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez from Canada 6: 2 and 6: 3. “It’s so nice, I play tennis for that and I also play singles for that,” said Siegemund at Prime Video.

On Friday, Siegemund will meet Australian Open winner Madison Keys from the USA in the third round. In the first round she defeated the American Peyton Stearns in two sets.

Maria and Seidel left in the first round

After light rain in the morning, the game started with a delay of around two hours. After 49 minutes, Siegemund prevailed against Fernandez in the first set. In the second round, the Metzinger used her second match ball to win.

The last remaining German in the tournament is victorious. Eva Lys lost to Czech Linda Nosková with 2: 6, 6: 2, 3: 6. The two German players Tatjana Maria and Ella Seidel had already left the first round on Tuesday. In her game against Spaniard Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro, Seidel kinked in the second set and suffered a ligament tear in the right ankle. The German player Jan-Lennard Struff is still there for the men-co-favorite Alexander Zverev was eliminated on Tuesday with a narrow five-set defeat.