Nadal was unable to find his consistency on the court, and he dropped a 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 decision to his unseeded opponent.
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During five trips to the All England Club from 2006 to 2011, Nadal reached the final every time.
“You have to play your A game against him”, said Brown, who also beat Nadal in their only previous meeting in Halle past year. Then again, Nadal is 20-0 against qualifiers at Grand Slam tournaments.
Nadal, the 2008 and 2010 champion, slumped to a 75, 36, 64, 64 second round defeat against the world number 102.
CoCo Vandeweghe eliminated 11th-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the second round at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
On a hot and humid Court One, yesterday’s display would have pleased his coach Amelie Mauresmo as it was a vast improvement on his underwhelming first-round win over Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin in which he was broken three times in the second set.
Brown has only won back-to-back matches on the ATP tour once this year, reaching the quarterfinals in Doha. And he was certainly ready to rise to the Centre Court challenge and a hugely partisan crowd that, as has become the norm, gave the Swiss a standing ovation just for walking onto court.
And while Rafa, seems to be ageing rapidly before our eyes, his old foe, Roger Federer is aging gracefully.
Elsewhere, defending champion Petra Kvitova made light work of Japan’s Kurumi Nara in the Wimbledon second round as the Czech cruised through with a straight-sets win.
“Whatever I do is to take him out of his comfort zone”.
“The Duchess opened up her bag and my wristband was in there, so he obviously had given it to her”. The last two games saw Federer play unheralded opponents and despite getting past them, the games weren’t all that easy and lasted much longer than Federer would have liked. Vandeweghe beat Stosur in the second round of this year’s Australian Open.
With a vintage performance punctuated by a spectacular trick shot, Roger Federer looked as good as ever on the grass-courts of Wimbledon.
This is not the first time we have seen Federer pull off a shot like this in a major tournament.
That left the 39-year-old in a good position to avoid missing the cut in consecutive PGA Tour events for the first time in his illustrious career, albeit four shots behind clubhouse leader Scott Langley who carded a flawless 62.
Down at his lowest ranking for a decade – 10th in the world – Thursday’s defeat was yet another sign of the great Spaniard’s game being in a worrying state of decline. That coverage will run through 4:30 p.m., with a live stream available at WatchESPN.
Federer has breezed through his first two matches in emphatic fashion as he bids to win the tournament for a record eighth time.
Federer won the match in straight sets (6-4, 6-2, 6-2).
Querrey had his own take on things: “You know, today he hit that shot between the legs”.
Kvitova has a 4-2 lead over Jankovic but the two have never met at a Grand Slam.
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Ex- finalist Agnieszka Radwanska needed just 49 minutes to win her second-round match at Wimbledon on Thursday.
