Two-time Wimbledon champion clinches 6-3, 7-5 victoryNo 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka defeats Anna Blinkova
It is hard to fathom, for a player of her quality, that Petra Kvitova is through to the last 16 at Wimbledon for only the second time since she won her second title here in 2014. The Czech, who won Wimbledon for the first time in 2011, beat the Serbian qualifier Natalija Stevanovic 6-3, 7-5 on another rain-hit afternoon, surviving a flurry of late double faults as she tried to close it out.
Stevanovic had beaten the former world No 1 Karolina Pliskova in the first round and presented Kvitova with a real challenge, especially in the second set, with her unorthodox playing style and, in particular, her forehand slice kept the ball low and made life difficult for Kvitova.
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