London July 5 (IANS) Germany s Angelique Kerber the No. 11 seed on Thursday booked a place to Wimbledon s third round for the seventh time in her career after knocking out United States qualifier Claire Liu 3-6 6-2 6-4.
The two-time Grand Slam champion took one hour and 54 minutes to end Liu s first Wimbledon s appearance reports Efe.
Kerber is set to take on next ranked and seeded No. 18 Naomi Osaka of Japan who prevailed over Britain s Katie Boulter 6-3 6-4.
In other Wimbledon action ranked and seeded No. 17 Ashleigh Barty of Australia reached The Championships round of 32 after defeating Canada s qualifier Eugenie Bouchard 6-4 7-5 in one hour and 31 minutes.
Barty is set to square off against world No. 14 Daria Kasatkina of Russia who beat world No. 53 Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-2 6-3.

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