Bacsinszky leads rain-hit stragglers into round at Wimbledon

Swiss 11th seed Timea Bacsinszky joined a clutch of stragglers who belatedly reached the second round of the women's singles at Wimbledon on Thursday as the organisers battled to get back on schedule after two days of rain delays. Bacsinszky, who reached the quarter-finals last year, had spent Tuesday and Wednesday twiddling her thumbs but finally took to Court Three to beat Thailand's Luksika Kumkhum 6-4 6-2. "It wasn't that easy, because I had the tension of the match on Tuesday, on Wednesday, and today.So it's kind of weird." After the floods seen in Paris earlier this month when a whole day was lost at the French Open, Bacsinszky said players were getting used to watching the rain fall.
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