Today at Wimbledon
- Coco Gauff advanced to the third round with a straight set victory over Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu.
- Rafael Nadal lost another set, but beat Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis 3-1 on the central court.
- In the true Plucky Brit way, Jack Draper was impressive in defeat as he came out in four sets against 19th Australian team Alex De Minaur.
- Nick Kyrgios will face Stefanos Tsitsipas in the third round after beating Filip Krajinovic in straight sets. Tsitsipas hit Australian Jordan Thompson on the sidelines.
- Leicestershire girl Katie Boulter came out of a set on the center court to knock out sixth seeder Karolina Pliskova and win a third-round match against Harmony Tan, first-round winner Serena Williams.
- Heather Watson has advanced to the third round after taking advantage of just one match to close out her delayed match against Chinese Wang Qiang.
- Liam Broady joined the ranks of the British in the third round after eliminating 12th seed Diego Schartzmann in a fifth-set decision.
- Britain’s Alastair Gray, however, is down, having lost 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 to Taylor Fritz, the 11th seed.
- Londoner Harriet Dart is also down, having lost in three sets to eighth American seed Jess Pegula.
- The men’s draw lost a third player to Covid, with Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut, 17th seed, forced to retire after testing positive.
Alex De Minaur speaks: “Before we talk about my party, we can talk about Katie Boulter today,” he says, referring to his English girlfriend, who beat Karolina Pliskova earlier. “She had a pretty good win. No, look, I’m very excited to get that win because it was a hellish battle. Jack is a hellish competitor, a hell of a talent and he has a very bright future ahead.
“Sometimes it didn’t look good to me, but I stayed hard, I stayed positive … I kept it together. I managed to play great tennis for three hours. “
De Minaur will face another Briton in the third round at Liam Broady.
Game, set and match De Minaur
Men’s Singles: De Minaur gets a game point after Draper raises a wide right hand. Draper sends his first serve out, but makes the second and another marathon rally ends with him throwing a right hand from the very wide baseline. De Minaur wins 5-7, 7-6, 6-2, 6-3. It was a good performance from the 20-year-old Draper, but De Minaur was too good for him.
An excellent performance from Alex de Minaur when he defeated Jack Draper in four sets on the center court. Photography: John Walton / PA
Updated at 21.59 BST
Men’s Singles: Under good pressure from his British opponent Alex De Minaur keeps his serve at 30 to go 5-3 ahead in the fourth set: Jack Draper is serving to stay in the game.
Coco Gauff has passed to the third round …
Women’s Singles: Coco Gauff breaks Mikaela Buzarnescu before serving to win with an ace and advance to the third round with a 6-2, 6-3 victory that could hardly have been easier.
It makes it easy. Photography: Aaron Chown / PA
Updated at 21.48 BST
Men’s Singles: Approaching three hours, with one penalty rally after another, Alex De Minaur holds his serve to take a 4-2 lead over Jack Draper in the fourth set and leave just two victory games. Draper wins his serve game at 15 and makes it 4-3.
Men’s Singles: A wonderful back-to-back volley between Jack Draper’s court helps him save a breaking point and Alex De Minaur loses a rally from the back baseline by badly hitting a well-deflected right-footed shot. Draper’s advantage and another De Minaur mistake means he has crucial service. It is 3-2 in the fourth for De Minaur, who has a break and advances by two sets to one.
Women’s singles: 3-3 in the second set of the match between Coco Gauff and Mihaela Buzarnescu, with the American led by a set to love.
Photography: Glyn Kirk / AFP / Getty Images
Updated at 21.44 BST
Men’s Singles: In the fourth set of his first five-set main tour, Jack Draper begins to look very tired. He made a couple of unforced errors while De Minaur held the service to take a 3-1 lead, gaining 11 points in a row.
Male Individual: Demonstrating incredible athleticism, speed and stretching all the tendons to get almost behind him, Alex De Minaur not only returns a Draper volley, but makes an unbelievable right pass to the cross country to advance 2- 1 in the fourth set of a match leading by two sets to one. Draper approaches his chair without being able to believe what he just saw.
Women’s singles: Playing with a very tied left knee, Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu faces Coco Gauff, but has just kept the service in a fourth game of the second second very disputed: 2-2.
De Minaur takes the third set
Men’s Singles: The Australian has taken a big step and is beginning to show his authority throughout this match. He leads by an odd set of three after beating Jack Draper 6-2 in the third.
De Minaur breaks Draper again
Men’s singles: With the track open, an unforced error in Jack Draper’s net followed by a double foul gives Alex De Minaur another break, which will now serve for the third set.
Alex De Minaur serves the British Jack Draper. Photography: Alberto Pezzali / AP
Updated at 21.22 BST
Draper breaks …
Men’s Singles: Jack Draper makes two quick-play games in the third set of his game against Alex De Minaur, but continues a service break with the score at 3-2 in the third. Curious fact: De Minaur is the boyfriend of Katie Boulter, the Leicestershire girl who played the match of her life to beat last year’s runner-up Karolina Pliskova on the center court this afternoon.
Coco Gauff wins the first set
Women’s Singles: The 18-year-old from Florida loses little time in accelerating until the first set victory by 6-2 against Mihaela Buzarnescu.
Alex De Minaur has a double break
Men’s Singles: The Australian must have a place to be as he puts his foot down to take three games ahead of Jack Draper in the third set. He is willing to go 4-0 up and starts with an ace.
Alex De Minaur takes control of the third set. Photography: Tom Jenkins / The Guardian
Updated at 21.09 BST
Women & # 39; s 37 Stats Wins Iga Swiatek remains one of the favorites to lift the women’s singles trophy here Saturday week after losing 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 against Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove.
But the fact that the No. 1 seed has surrendered only his third set since March – and an opponent who only qualified as a lucky loser – should give his rivals hope that a player who has apparently forgotten of how to lose may not be so armored. – plated as it seems. Greg Wood reports from Wimbledon …
Men’s Singles: Alex De Minaur gets an early break against Jack Draper in the first game of the third set.
De Minaur takes the second set
Men’s Singles: Everything is on track number 1, where Alex De Minaur has absolutely dominated the tie-break, playing impeccable tennis to thrash Jack Draper 7-0 and take the game to a set each.
Jack Draper loses the second set in a tie-break. Photography: Tom Jenkins / The Guardian
Updated at 20.59 BST
Women’s Singles: Meanwhile, on the center court, Coco Gauff’s match against Romanian Miheala Buzarnescu is underway and the American advances 2-1 in the first set.
Coco Gauff is on the center court. Photography: Neil Hall / EPA
Updated at 20.38 BST
Men’s Singles: Jack Draper’s match against Australian Alex De Minaur is becoming an endless competition with fantastic and hard-fought rallies. The Briton from Sutton is ready and has just held his service to take the second to the tie-break.
Men’s Singles: Jack Draper’s game against Alex De Minaur on track number 1 is the only one going on right now, with Coco Gauff and Mihaela Buzarnescu on the center court at the moment. All matches have been suspended on the outside courts, mostly doubles. Draper is a set against De Minaur and goes on serve in a second set that is currently tied at 4-4.
Game, set and match, Christmas
Men’s Singles: Two sets to one and 5-3 in the fourth set, Rafael Nadal serves for the match. He loses the first point, giving Berankis too much space to pass through the left tram line, before throwing successive aces. Your opponent can only reverse the next delivery weakly on the net. With two match points to his name, Nadal closes with another ace: 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
Rafa finished in four sets. Photography: Paul Childs / Reuters
Updated at 20.06 BST
Women’s Singles: On the biggest stage of all, Center Court, Katie Boulter’s reputation matched reality dramatically as she produced the biggest victory of her career to upset Karolina Pliskova, the sixth boss of series and finalist last year. Tumaini Carayol reports from the central court.
Men’s singles: The game resumed on the central court, where Rafael Nadal led Ricardas Berankis by two sets to one and by 4-2 in the fourth set.
Jack Draper takes the first set
Men’s Singles: Jack Draper wins a brilliant 26-shot rally (or possibly more) in which the ball cut plaster on numerous occasions, to probably win the championship point so far and take the first set of his match against Alex De Minaur 7-5.
Jack Draper grabs the first set! Photography: Tom Jenkins / The Guardian
Updated at 19.59 BST
Men’s Singles: Rafael Nadal and Ricardas Berankis return to the center court warming up. More exciting news about rain delays as we receive them.
Men & # 39; s Singles – Rain may have stopped falling, but the match on the central court between Rafael Nadal and Ricardo Berankis is still suspended, as the referees let the court breathe, or whatever they have to do after being covered for more than 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, on track No. 1, Jack Draper has just saved a break point and has survived a half-point displacement to hold on to his serve and put up the 5-5 lead in the first set of his match against Alex De Minaur.
Court number 1: the roof is …