Querrey comes back, wins after losing 1st 2 sets
His form was good so he entered Wimbledon pre-qualifying two weeks ago as the lowest-ranked entrant. He is down to No 177 in the world rankings and is likely to drop out of the top 200 at the end of this tournament.
Federer overcame a shaky performance in his first major tournament in five months after sustaining injuries and setbacks that kept him sidelined from competing in events.
Instead, Willis wound up with grander, and more lucrative, plans: playing – and winning! – a match at Wimbledon.
“He will go on Centre or Court One”.
As she has done for most of the past 19 British summers, Venus Williams took a large, languid stride into the second round.
But Ward ought not to have been so hard on himself. Perhaps he knew Djokovic is a Unicef ambassador, who visited Belgrade past year to met some of the refugee and migrant children who are passing through the Republic of Serbia on their way to Western Europe.
Djokovic wobbled, and admitted afterwards he had lost concentration in the second set as Ward’s serving picked up and he clawed it back to 3-3, prompting a wag in the crowd to yell: “He’s only human James!” True, he lost to Djokovic but the 6-0, 7-6 (3), 6-4 score was perfectly respectable.
On court Tuesday: No. 2 Andy Murray vs. Liam Broady, No. 4 Stan Wawrinka vs. Taylor Fritz, No. 15 Nick Kyrgios vs. Radek Stepanek; No. 1 Serena Williams vs. Amra Sadikovic, No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Kateryna Kozlova, No. 13 Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. In the following game Djokovic went to match point with a splendid drop shot victor and then completed the job with an ace.
“I was telling myself how nice it was to be back at Centre Court”. It could easily have been 2 2 because I had advantage and I was up as well.
“I was very happy with the way I played”. The more the games go on, you start panicking, especially against a guy who is making so many balls. “After the first-round loss in Paris, it’s great to start the tournament like this”, the fourth seed told reporters. Mum can you do that?’ No, but he’s a good lad, he was never a terrible teenager, he’s very good-natured. “Then we go from there”. It’s gotten out of hand.
“When it’s full up and everyone is cheering for you, you’re playing against the world number one, it’s a day you remember for the rest of your life”. I didn’t want to get back home and regret anything.
Asked if he had ever spoken to the Swiss, Willis said with a smile: “I don’t think he was at Tunisia F1 this year”.
“Not much to say about my game, it was really flawless. I started to feel like maybe I had the chance to win the most important points”.
Federer who is trying to become the first man to win eight Wimbledon crowns, will face an unlikely opponent in Marcus Willis, who needed to cancel teaching tennis lessons to kids and adults to participate at the All England Club in Church Road.
Day one of Wimbledon attracted a host of famous faces including Pippa Middleton and her brother James, actress Rebel Wilson and singer Sam Smith. Having broken into the world’s top 100 past year, he has continued to make good progress in 2016.
“Yeah, I voted out”, said Ward. My serve was quite inconsistent. It was that sort of day, the tournament beginning amid the sound of slamming doors in Labour party headquarters as ministers resigned or were fired and the discomfiting mood of no-one knowing quite what is going on or who is making decisions.
And Henman told Press Association Sport: ” I’ve known him for a long time because when I moved out of London while I was still playing, I was based at Bisham Abbey, and that’s where he used to be based.