It was not too bad of a day for Americans besides Brengle.
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Meanwhile, ninth-seeded US Open champ Marin Cilic moved on by beating Japan’s Hiroki Moriya 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (7-4).
After trading breaks early with Kohlschreiber, the highest-ranked non-seed in the draw, the Serb broke again in game 10 to take the lead.
“I’m aware of the adjustment that is required movement-wise, game-wise, and also mentally for the grass courts coming from clay courts”, the world number one told Sky Sports. But his first battle is against Mikhail Kukushkin on Tuesday. Those were the first double bagels at Wimbledon in six years.
With no competitive matches in the build-up to the championships after his French Open final loss, Djokovic, on paper at least, had a unsafe opponent in the 33rd-ranked German.
Heather Watson has only ever won three singles matches at Wimbledon and she will need to up her game as she takes on 32nd seed Caroline Garcia of France. She lost in last year’s Wimbledon final to Petra Kvitova. About the same time, in relatively modest surroundings, 20-year-old Aussie upstart Nick Kyrgios, blonde streaks running the down the sides of Mohican cut, thundered serves and strokes and talked dirty in a first-round win at Wimbledon. “This the cradle of our sport, Centre Court”.
“I think with all the cameras pointed out to him and to the box, I think you would already notice if he would just kind of go kick serve, slice, to do the backhand or forehand”.
Djokovic spent much of the weekend defending Becker and said: “I’m just trying to figure out what you want to achieve with this story. I think any person looks up to him”.
More specifically, for his first-round match against Mikhail Kukushkin tomorrow, Bing reckons he has a 98% chance of winning.
Site: The All England Lawn Tennis Club.
“Overall a great performance against a quality opponent”, said Djokovic, who faces Finnish veteran Jarkko Nieminen in the second round.
“I knew it was going to be tough, tough one because we played long five sets past year here”, said Nishikori, who is making his seventh Wimbledon appearance.
If, a fortnight from now, the 33-year-old Williams were to win Wimbledon for a sixth time, she would be the oldest women’s major champion in the Open era of professional tennis, which began in 1968.
That’s something I can always come back and enjoy over the years. Alison Riske nearly defeated French Open finalist Lucie Safarova, but the Czech managed to win the second set and blew Riske away in the third.
It is no surprise both tournament favourites with NetBet are the same for their first round matches.
Also reaching the second round was Serena’s sister, Venus, also a five-time champion at Wimbledon.
National Hockey League star Henrik Lundqvist is among the guests invited to the Royal Box on Centre Court.
The other woman in the mix is Maria Sharapova, the 2004 Wimbledon champion.
Rain shouldn’t be problem on the opening day at the All England Club. Of course, there are situations when it happens, and not just with the top players but with everybody. The heat stress index factors in temperature along with humidity and surface temperature.
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Defending champion Djokovic opens play on Centre Court against Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber at noon.
