London - Third seed Simona Halep of Romania reached the Wimbledon Last 16 on Saturday with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Swiss teenager Belinda Bencic.
Halep, the French Open runner-up, will face either Russia's Vera Zvonareva or Kazakh qualifier Zarina Diyas for a place in the quarter-finals.
Wimbledon results on Saturday, the sixth day of the 2014 championships at the All England Club (x denotes seeded player):
Men
Third round
Roger Federer (SUI x4) bt Santiago Giraldo (COL) 6-3, 6-1, 6-3
Milos Raonic (CAN x8) bt Lukasz Kubot (POL) 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/4), 6-2
Nick Kyrgios (AUS) bt Jirí Veselý (CZE) 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2
Rafael Nadal (ESP x2) bt Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) 6-7 (4/7), 6-1, 6-1, 6-1
Women
Third round
Alize Cornet (FRA x25) bt Serena Williams (USA x1) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
Eugénie Bouchard (CAN x13) bt Andrea Petkovic (GER x20) 6-3, 6-4
Angelique Kerber (GER x9) bt Kirsten Flipkens (BEL x24) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
Maria Sharapova (RUS x5) bt Alison Riske (USA) 6-3, 6-0
Simona Halep (ROM x3) bt Belinda Bencic (SUI) 6-4, 6-1