The Australian is now 7-0 in Wimbledon qualifying
All remaining first-round matches were completed on Tuesday, Day 2 of Wimbledon qualifying. #NextGen stars Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov of Russia moved into the second round along with former junior Wimbledon champion Luke Saville of Australia.
Top seed Khachanov recorded his first Wimbledon victory by defeating Yan Bai of China, 6-3, 6-4. The 20 year old broke into the Top 100 of the Emirates ATP Rankings this year after strong results, including a win against Top 20 player Roberto Bautista Agut en route to reaching the third round of the ATP World Tour 500 event in Barcelona. Next up for Khachanov is Enrique Lopez-Perez of Spain.
Rublev also moved into the second round with a convincing win over American Alexander Sarkissian, 6-1, 6-4. The 18-year-old Rublev won his first ATP Challenger Tour title in February in Quimper, France. His campaign for a debut main draw appearance at Wimbledon continues with a match against British wild card Marcus Willis.
The 25-year-old Willis recorded the upset of the day by defeating No. 4 seed Yuichi Sugita of Japan, 1-6, 6-4, 6-1. The World No. 778 in the Emirates ATP Rankings was playing his first tournament since January and only his second of 2016 after being sidelined by injury. Willis also recorded his first career win over a Top 100 player in the Emirates ATP Rankings and first win at Wimbledon since 2009.
Another player who advanced on Monday was Saville, 2011 junior Wimbledon champion, who survived a stern test against Oriol Roca Batalla of Spain, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. The 22 year old is looking to advance through qualifying at Wimbledon for the third consecutive year. He’ll next play Aldin Setkic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who defeated No. 26 seed Maximo Gonzalez of Argentina.
Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador also broke ground by becoming the first player from El Salvador to ever win a qualifying round at a Grand Slam. The 25-year-old defeated Constant Lestienne of France, 6-4, 7-6(3). He’ll look to keep his run going when he plays Matthew Barton of Australia, who prevailed 8-6 in the final set over No. 32 seed Marco Trungelliti of Argentina.
Other players to advance on Tuesday include 38-year-old Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo of Spain and Mohamed Safwat of Egypt, who became the first player from his country to win a match at Wimbledon since Ismael El Shafei in 1976.
All second-round qualifying matches will be held on Wednesday, with the feature match of the day pitting #NextGen star and No. 29 seed Quentin Halys of France against Zhe Li of China.
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British number one Johanna Konta has beaten Lesia Tsurenko to set up a last-16 meeting with two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova at Eastbourne.
Konta, who will be seeded for the first time at Wimbledon this year, overcame her Ukrainian opponent 7-6 (7-4) 6-1.
Kvitova won her only previous meeting with Konta, coming through 7-5 6-3 in the US Open last 16 in September.
Top seed Agnieszka Radwanska and former world number one Caroline Wozniacki also advanced to the third round.
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia was forced to retire from her match against Poland’s Radwanska because of illness while trailing 6-4 2-1. Dane Wozniacki – now ranked 37th in the world – produced a superb performance to beat Australian Sam Stosur 6-2 6-1.
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Radwanska will play 2014 Wimbledon runner-up Eugenie Bouchard next after the Canadian – who has fallen to 48th in the world from a high of fifth in October 2014 – beat Romanian 15th seed Irina-Camelia Begu 6-3 6-1.
Earlier in the day Czech fifth seed Kvitova saw off Hungary’s Timea Babos 6-4 7-6 (7-5), but Italian second seed Roberta Vinci and Swiss fourth seed Timea Bacsinszky were upset by Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova and France’s Kristina Mladenovic respectively.
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Watch the best of the action from Tuesday at Eastbourne as British number one Johanna Konta goes through in straight sets with a 7-6 6-1 win over Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko, while there are also wins for Caroline Wozniacki, Agnieszka Radwanska and Petra Kvitova.
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British world number 708 Marcus Willis beat Japan’s 99th-ranked Yuichi Sugita in their Wimbledon qualifying opener.
Warwickshire’s Willis, 25, beat Sugita, seeded fourth in the Roehampton tournament, 1-6 6-4 6-1.
The British number 23 needs to win another two matches – starting with Russian teenager Andrey Rublev – to secure his main-draw place.
Compatriot Joe Salisbury, ranked 706th in the world, caused another upset, beating Italian Alessandro Giannessi.
On Monday Britain’s world number 554 Dan Cox overcame 16th seed Thiemo de Bakker.
Britain’s Katie Boulter, Edward Corrie and Gabriella Taylor also won their first-round matches, but Daniel Smethurst is out after a 6-3 7-6 (8-6) defeat by France’s Calvin Hemery and Maia Lumsden lost to Czech Tereza Smitkova 2-6 6-2 6-2.
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British number three Kyle Edmund is out of the Nottingham Open after a 6-4 7-6 (7-5) defeat by Ukrainian world number 32 Alexandr Dolgopolov.
Edmund, 21, who is ranked at a career-best 68th after making the third round at Queen’s, was edged out in a tight match that featured one break of serve.
However British number four Dan Evans overcame Lithuanian world number 53 Ricardas Berankis 2-6 7-6 (7-3) 6-2.
He will face Uruguayan second seed Pablo Cuevas in the third round.
Top seeded South African Kevin Anderson is also into the last 16 after coming through a testing match with Croatia’s Ivan Dodig 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-3.
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