Yen-Hsun Lu is coming off a straight sets win over Alexander Kudryavtsev that took an hour and a half to finish.
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32-year-old Lu, from Chinese Taipei, is now ranked 76 in the world but hit a career high of 33 in 2010 and was a Wimbledon quarter-finalist in 2010.
“He’s played the three grass court challengers in the buildup”. He’s very experienced, he’s made the quarters here before and beat [Andy] Roddick. He has won 15 of the 16 matches he has played on grass in the last month, having recently returned to competition following a lengthy break with an elbow injury. Now, if I don’t win the first match then it’s a disaster, ‘ he wrote.
But Liam has now parted ways with the LTA again, although amicably this time, in order to try to fix his relationship with his father, which he admitted is still “frosty”.
Rafter, who won the US Open in 1997 and 1998 and was twice a runner-up at Wimbledon, told Press Association Sport: “This probably isn’t nice for him to hear but he’s probably in a slightly different league”.
However, Murray was soon into his stride, breaking Lu for 3-3 and then again to move 5-3 ahead, before serving out the set.
“This year will be more like a comeback on to tour, to feel the pressure of tennis”.
“I was just happy that I improved as the match went on”.
“Towards the end of the second I started hitting the ball much cleaner and was more comfortable”.
“Of course it is going to be hard”.
“Obviously (playing a Brit at Wimbledon) never happened before, for me anyway”, said Murray.
The six-time champion barely served any better than the 148th-ranked Sadikovic, who was making her main draw debut in a Grand Slam at the age of 27. He was ranked, I want to say, about 200 at the time.
“But my confidence is not there on my backhands yet, and that’s tough when you play against the top guys”.
“They’re so good at what they do that you forget they’re just men in a sense”. Gasquet reached the Wimbledon semi-finals past year, while Tsonga made it to the semis in 2011 and 2012.
“I am always trying to remember that moment when I come back here”, he said.
Very little play was possible on the uncovered courts on Wednesday so organisers will desperately hope lost ground can be made up.
His dominance was further enhanced by a break to love at the start of the third set and by the time Lu got on the board it was 4-1.
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Evans, until now known mostly for landing himself in trouble with his off-court antics, will be playing in the All England Club third round for the first time when he faces seven-time Wimbledon champion Federer.
