Angelique Kerber overcomes Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova test

Angelique Kerber has booked her place in third round at Wimbledon with a straight-sets win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

The 10th seed, a semi-finalist at SW19 in 2012, was pushed during the first set before eventually prevailing 7-5 6-2 against the Russian.

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The opening 10 games of the first set were shared, despite Kerber having more joy on the Pavlyuchenkova serve, but the German finally made her dominance count by breaking for a third time in the final game of the set.

The second proved to be more straightforward for the left-hander, who broke twice and conceded just four points behind serve to ease through to the last 32.