Wimbledon results 2017: Stan Wawrinka upset in opening round

Turned out, she didn’t need to stress about a shutout for too long: Brengle broke the strong-serving Kvitova to take the very first game. “It was a special one”.

“I wasn’t feeling the way I wanted to feel. Even though people do it when they win the slam, I did it when I win my first match at a slam”.

“It’s always really special for any player to come back and play here”.

8 told The Times, ‘He won tournaments before that and he was one of the top players. A tournament title came next, on grass courts at Birmingham, England, in June.

“The whole time, I was just kind of waiting for her level to drop and it never really did”, said Keys, who recently had a second surgery on her left wrist to remove scar tissue from the original procedure in October.

Medvedev shook hands with the Belgian, who triumphed 6-4 6-2 3-6 2-6 6-3 but headed to his bag, took out his wallet and began to throw two handfuls of coins towards the foot of the umpire’s chair. She huddled nearby with her older sister, Isha, before returning.

Kevin Anderson cracked the top 10 in 2015 and struggled with injuries ever since.

There was drama on and off the court on the first day of Wimbledon, with US Open champion and world No 3 Stan Wawrinka the biggest name to fall.

Seeded winners in the women’s first round: No. 1 Angelique Kerber, No. 3 Karolina Pliskova, No. 5 Caroline Wozniacki, No. 7 Svetlana Kuznetsova, No. 9 Agnieszka Radwanska, No. 12 Kristina Mladenovic, No. 14 Garbine Muguruza, No. 19 Timea Bacsinszky, No. 24 CoCo Vandeweghe, No. 29 Daria Kasatkina, No. 32 Lucie Safarova.

“With golf, there’s a lot of action happening at different holes and similarly in tennis, there’s so much play going on beyond Centre Court.” he said.

Few people, however, expected him to upset his Swiss opponent, a three-time Grand Slam champion. The injury seemed to weigh on Wawrinka’s mind as the set went on.

The loss forced him off tour for the remainder of the year to rest a knee injury, leaving his Grand Slam title count on 17 where it had been since 2012.

“The first set (at Queen’s) when I played against Donald Young, it was fine”. He’ll play a qualifier from Belgium, Ruben Bemelmans, on Wednesday.

But that landmark has been overshadowed by her involvement last month in a road accident near her Florida home which resulted in the death of a 78-year-old man. He reached the semifinals in 2009, losing to Roger Federer, but needed a wild-card to compete this year.

Defending champion Andy Murray and fellow two-time victor Rafael Nadal take centre stage on the first day of Wimbledon yesterday, keen to deliver early hammer blows to any doubts over their title aspirations.