Daria Kasatkina speeds through to Wimbledon’s third round | Tennis News – Times of India

Daria Kasatkina defeated British wildcard Jodie Burrage with a convincing score of 6-0, 6-2 in just one hour in her second-round match at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
Although the 11th-seeded Russian faced a slight setback at the beginning of the second set when she dropped her serve, the local crowd at Centre Court had little to cheer about during this rain-interrupted match, which marked the first encounter of a damp day.
Thanks to her impressive performance, Kasatkina advanced to the third round much sooner than many of the first-round matches could be completed due to heavy rain that caused the cancellation of nearly 70 matches on Tuesday. Prior to this victory, Kasatkina had already triumphed over American Caroline Dolehide in her opening match on Monday.
The Russian flew through the first set in 19 minutes, pummelling the clearly nervous local favourite with heavy groundstrokes.
Burrage, who accumulated only eight points in the first set, dropped her first service game with a double fault and served another to hand Kasatkina the first set.
The 24-year-old Londoner, whose career has been blighted by a series of ankle injuries and operations, finally got herself on the scoreboard with some attacking net play in the second set.
But her brief flurry was curbed when Kasatkina broke back immediately before the players were ushered off court because of a shower.
They were back some 15 minutes later and, while the 108th-ranked Burrage showed more resistance, she was outpowered and outplayed.
Kasatkina won the match with another break of serve when Burrage heaved a forehand long.
She said it was tough to play a Briton on Centre Court.
“I was nervous as well to play on the best court in the world,” she said in an interview on court.
Kasatkina reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2018 and plans to do better this year. “I hope I have improved since then,” she said.

(With inputs from Reuters)