Murray swats Broady aside as domestic skirmish goes favourite’s way

“Didn’t practice neither”, he said after his 7-6 (7/4) 1-6 7-6 (7/2) 6-4 success.

The 65th-ranked Fritz, making his Wimbledon debut, was the youngest man in the draw.

Weather hit Wimbledon for the first time in 2016 late in the afternoon on the second day. Stepanek has won only 6 points on the return, but he had a small chance in the last game when he reached a deuce before Kyrgios took the set with 2 good points.

The Scot’s timing could not have been better.

Tess Daly and Vernon Kay enjoyed the match from the Royal Box as they made their first public appearance since being rocked by “sexting” allegations. The Chinese Taipei native defeated Alexander Kudryavtsev 6-4, 6-1, 6-4 in his opener on Tuesday.

The match really got interesting only when Kyrgios tried to finish it in the third set.

After world number one Djokovic, the Wimbledon champion for the last two years, cruised past Britain’s James Ward to open his campaign on Monday, Murray was in equally ruthless mood 24 hours later.

The 22-year-old, with only one grand slam match win to his credit, was completely outclassed and Murray finished off his Davis Cup teammate in business-like manner.

He’s seeded to meet Andy Murray in the fourth round.

Meanwhile, there was disappointment for British number two Aljaz Bedene, who went down 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 to France’s Richard Gasquet, a two-time semi-finalist who arrives at Wimbledon on the back of his best French Open performance.

Leave it to showman Nick Kyrgrios to pull off a shot like this. Breaks came at the beginning and end of the first set, in the fourth game of the second, and in the first game of the third, and the match otherwise unrolled to order.

Second seed Andy Murray showed no mercy to fellow Britain Liam Broady as he launched his Wimbledon challenge with a straightforward 6-2 6-3 6-4 victory on Tuesday.

Broady, however, did not go down without a fight. He made it to the quarterfinals back in 2006.

“She’ll enter the 50Ks, the 25Ks, that’d be the best place to start”, said Murray, speaking on behalf of HSBC during activity on their Court 20 area alongside the famous Wimbledon queue.

By turns urging herself on and telling herself off, Williams eventually secured match point when her opponent just missed a lob and sealed victory after challenging a wrong call when her shot landed on the far baseline.

Injury-plagued del Potro, a former US Open champion, is playing in his first grand slam event since the 2014 Australian Open after undergoing three wrist surgeries.

It was the first all-British meeting at SW19 since Tim Henman beat Martin Lee in 2001 and the first time Murray has encountered British opposition at the home of English tennis.