Wimbledon 2018: Garbine Muguruza beats Britain's Naomi Broady to progress

Updated 03/07/2018 at 19:47 GMT

Garbine Muguruza produced a solid performance to beat Britain's Naomi Broady 6-2 7-5 and progress through to the second round of Wimbledon.

Garbine Muguruza of Spain celebrates after defeating Naomi Broady of Great Britain in their Ladies' Singles first round match on day two of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships

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The Spaniard, who is the defending champion at SW19, cruised through the opening set with Broady only able to muster two games.

But the Brit managed to put up a stiffer resistance in the second set as she took it to 5-5 with Muguruza forced to work very hard to get ahead.

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The third seed eventually made the breakthrough and closed out the second set 7-5 with Broady unable to find a response.

Muguruza, who is considered the favourite to defend her title by many, completed victory in 88 minutes after breaking Broady's resistance.

She will next take on the winner of Polona Hercog of Slovenia's clash with Belgium's Alison van Uytvanck in the second round.

Women's singles results

No. 1 Simona Halep defeats Kurumi Nara 6-2, 6-4
No. 3 Garbine Muguruza defeats Naomi Broady 6-2, 7-5
Belinda Bencic defeats No. 6 Caroline Garcia 7-6, 6-3
Aliaksandra Sasnovich defeats No. 8 Petra Kvitova 6-4, 4-6, 6-0
No. 11 Angelique Kerber defeats Vera Zvonareva 7-5, 6-3
No. 15 Elise Mertens defeats Danielle Collins 6-3, 6-2
No. 16 Naomi Osaka defeats Monica Niculescu 6-4, 6-1
No. 17 Ashleigh Barty defeats Stefanie Vogele 7-5, 6-3
No. 22 Johanna Konta defeats Natalia Vikhylantseva 7-5, 7-6
No. 26 Daria Gavrilova defeats Caroline Dolehide 6-2, 6-3
No. 28 Anett Kontaveit defeats Denisa Allertova 6-2, 6-2
Hsieh Su-wei defeats No. 30 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
Lara Arruabarrena defeats Ana Bogdan 6-1, 3-6, 8-6
Dominika Cibulkova defeats Alize Cornet 7-6, 6-1
Samantha Stosur defeats Peng Shuai 6-4, 7-5
Claire Lu defeats Ana Konjuh 6-2, 6-7, 6-3
Taylor Townsend defeats Pauline Parmentier 6-2, 6-4
Alison Van Uytvanck defeats Polona Hercog 6-2, 6-2
Jennifer Brady defeats Kateryna Kozlova 6-2, 6-7, 6-2
Eugenie Bouchard defeats Gabriella Taylor 6-0, 4-6, 6-3
Zheng Saisai defeats Wang Qiang 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
Sofia Kenin defeats Maria Sakkari 6-4, 1-6, 6-1
Katie Boulter defeats Veronica Cepede Royg 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
Alison Riske defeats Mariana Duque Marino 6-1, 6-1

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