This is the third major tennis tournament of the year, with Novak Djokovic the two-time defending champion and top seed, having won the first two majors of the year, the Australian and French Opens.
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His third-round opponent will be sixth-seeded Canadian Milos Raonic, who hit 25 aces in a 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2 win over Andreas Seppi.
Boserup advanced when seventh-seeded Belinda Bencic retired with a wrist injury with the American leading 6-4, 1-0.
Roger Federer has ended British qualifier Marcus Willis’ feel-good Wimbledon run.
Keys, seeded No. 9 after breaking into the top 10 for the first time this month, also reached the third round with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 win over Kirsten Flipkens.
Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams won another match at the All England Club, beating Greek qualifier Maria Sakkari 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to reach the third round. She also was a quarterfinalist on three other occasions.
That same sentiment might have been expressed by some of the other players who joined her on the way out of the tournament, including No. 31 Kristina Mladenovic in a weather-delayed first-round match, and No. 7 Belinda Bencic, No. 14 Sam Stosur, No. 15 Karolina Pliskova, No. 16 Johanna Konta, No. 17 Elina Svitolina, No. 20 Sara Errani, No. 22 Jelena Jankovic, No. 30 Caroline Garcia and No. 32 Andrea Petkovic, all in second-round matches.
With play starting earlier on the outside courts and the rain holding off, Williams was among nine American players winning first- or second-round matches.
Radwanksa, the 2012 runner-up at Wimbledon, saved one match point at 5-3 in the third set and two more at 5-4.
French Open semifinalist Dominic Thiem was beaten in the second round at Wimbledon. He was broken serving for the match at 5-4, and was 5-2 down in the tiebreaker before squandering two match points and losing it. Kyrgios was warned for an audible obscenity in the changeover, and took out his frustration on Stepanek by rolling through the fourth set.
England’s Dan Evans returns the ball to Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine during their men’s singles match on day three of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Rogers has failed to get past the first round at Wimbledon in four appearances.
Spectators at No. 1 Court, where there was less than an hour of play, can get a full refund.
Evans entered the Grand Slam with a 0-3 career record at Wimbledon but has won two straight matches to equal his best performance at a major, at the U.S. Open in 2013.
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.
As tradition dictates, Djokovic has the honor of opening play on Centre Court on Monday as the men’s defending champion.
As the owner of seven Grand Slam singles titles, including five at Wimbledon, Venus Williams is accustomed to being – and succeeding – on those stages.
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Murray, the 2013 Wimbledon champion, will be up second on Centre Court on Tuesday against Liam Broady, a British wild-card entry ranked No. 235. At Wimbledon previous year, she knocked off third-seeded Simona Halep in the first round.
