Today at Wimbledon: Everything you need to know about day three

Tomorrow she takes on Williams’s friend Victoria Azarenka, the former world No.1.

It secured the world No.7’s second triumph in The Championships’ main draw. “Maybe not just vanilla, maybe chocolate chip or banana muffins”, she said.

“I just could not breathe, and I was feeling a bit sick”, the Czech 11th seed said. “I feel for the crowd”. And it was no different today. I think that also reinforced for me the good things I was doing and trusting in those things.

Konta broke into the top 10 only this past October, and her best Grand Slam performances have come in Australia and America, with hard courts generally regarded as her best surface.

“I’ve played quite a few big matches the a year ago. She is an incredible player and person”. “It’s a relatively short space of time that she has been at the top, and you have to learn to live there”. “At 6-6 and 7-7 she was able to do that”. She moves great, since we have been working she has won three matches from match point down so that tells you a bit about her competitive fire.

Watson, who is ranked at 102 and is a wild card at SW19 this year, said: “It is been one of my goals forever to reach the second week of a slam”. I’d never played Maryna before. I want to make sure that everything is okay. “I’m having a great season”.

Watson wobbled slightly in the second set, losing her serve in the third game with a double fault – one of five in the set – before recovering to win five of the final six games.

He famously beat Rafael Nadal at the same stage of Wimbledon two years ago, while Murray’s defeat to Brown’s serve-volleying compatriot Mischa Zverev at the Australian Open in January would have given him encouragement. It didn’t go my way.

A number of times she was pretty close to getting broken at the end – she was 0-30 down – and she stayed focused and managed to get through it.

Konta nearly broke through again in the 11th game, with her huge forehand piercing the Vekic defence to bring up three break chances, but it would go, perhaps appropriately, to a tie-break.

“I’m definitely here with the intention of wanting to be a part of the event for the full two weeks”, she said.

Through nine games, each woman lost just three points on serve.

After his match, which lasted just 43 minutes, Federer blamed rules that grant first-round losers £35,000 in prize money – as long as they start the match.

Konta, 26, said: “He’s helping me a lot on bringing out what’s true to me, how I play instinctively”.

I expect a really serious test when we play on Friday because he’s good off both forehand and backhand, and can hit a lot of winners. I know Heather and Jo won.

“I felt emotional, but I wasn’t close to tears”. I don’t have much to lose.

Britain’s Naomi Broady crashed out 6-4 6-2 to Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania.