Top seed Simona Halep went out of Wimbledon in the third round after losing an epic three-set battle against Hsieh Su-wei.

The Taiwanese world number 48’s serve was broken seven times and she saved a match point before winning 3-6 6-4 7-5 in two hours and 20 minutes.

It means Czech seventh seed Karolina Pliskova is the only top-10 player remaining in the women’s singles draw.

It is the first time Hsieh, 32, has reached the last 16 of the singles.

The 2013 doubles champion will now play Dominika Cibulkova after the Slovak beat 15th seed Elise Mertens of Belgium 6-2 6-2.

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How did Hsieh topple Halep?

It was a match of ups and downs from both Romanian Halep and Hsieh, who were dealing with intense heat on Court One.

It took five games to see the first hold of serve – which went to the world number one – and there were 13 breaks overall.

After losing the first set, Hsieh, who last played in the third round of Wimbledon in 2012, put Halep under pressure in the second and broke twice before serving to love to take it 6-4.

With fatigue setting in, Hsieh found herself 5-2 down in the decider and it looked like Halep’s strength was going to see her through to the last 16 for the fourth time.

But the Taiwanese clawed her way back into it with a single break, and after fending off match point, she broke again and held her nerve to see out the match – much to the delight of the crowd.

“This is the first time I have beaten the world number one, it is amazing,” said Hsieh.

“She played amazing, I had to run and fight for every point. I tried to concentrate on my game and calm down a bit, that helped a lot.

“There was a lot of support from outside that pushed me and I kept fighting.”

Kerber and Ostapenko cruise into round four

Eleventh seed Angelique Kerber, now the second-highest ranked player in the women’s draw, looked unstoppable on Centre Court as she breezed past Japanese 18th seed Naomi Osaka 6-2 6-4.

German Kerber, the losing finalist in 2016, will now play Swiss 21-year-old Belinda Bencic, who won 6-1 7-6 (7-3) against 27th seed Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain.

Australian Ashleigh Barty, seeded 17th, went out in the third round against Russian Daria Kasatkina, who won 7-5 6-3.

Kasatkina will face Alison van Uytvanck in the last 16 after the Belgian beat Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit 6-2 6-3.

Former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko made short work of her third-round match, winning 6-0 6-4 against Vitalia Diatchenko of Russia.

Ostapenko will meet Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the last 16 after the Belarusian beat Australian Daria Gavrilova 6-3 6-1.

At 93, John Wright is still serving up aces and challenging line calls with a passion John McEnroe would be proud of.

Having travelled the world with the Merchant Navy from a young age, he didn’t have the opportunity to take up the game until he was 49.

By then he found there was little encouragement or opportunities for “sub-standard” players like himself.

“Nobody wanted to see me, they used to hide when I came down to the club,” he joked.

“I realised the situation is the same everywhere, it doesn’t matter which club you go to.

“I thought these poor people, they come down to play tennis but nobody wants them because they don’t play to their standard or give a good game.”

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In 1987 John decided to set up a Friday night group at Haverfordwest Tennis Club in Pembrokeshire, which welcomes players of all capabilities with open arms.

It has been going strong ever since and John has earned himself something of a legendary status in west Wales’ tennis circles.

“If it wasn’t for John I wouldn’t be playing,” said Liz Green, who has been in John’s group for 26 years.

“When I came back after having my two children I lost my confidence and didn’t feel good enough to play on club nights.

“Everybody here will have their own story, but they will all have come initially because they had lost their confidence or didn’t feel good enough to play.”

Other members described him as inspirational, kind and welcoming.

As well as increasing participation, when John was chairman at Llangollen Tennis Club in 1975 he oversaw a decision to scrap the “all white clothing rule” in a bid to make the sport more informal.

John leads and plays in two tennis groups in Haverfordwest on Mondays and Fridays.

He says he “knows the mechanics of the game” but is unable to demonstrate the shots like he used to.

But his members insist he’s still more than capable of hitting winners and loves to challenge a line call.

Not even the recent heat wave has stopped him from playing.

John has played competitively in leagues over the years and picked up his first piece of silverware in a mixed doubles tournament aged 88, but he admits to preferring the fun and social side of the game.

“I don’t think you make too many friends playing competitive tennis. There’s an old saying, ‘I’ve got lots of friends I don’t like,'” he said.

“We (the Friday group) have a good laugh. Serious play is not of any interest to me.”

And John has no plans of hanging up his racket anytime soon, saying “age doesn’t matter at all”.

John said his all time favourite tennis player is the controversial Romanian Ilie Nastase.

“He didn’t play to the textbook like he should have done,” he said.

“I don’t think he ever had any coaching, but there wasn’t a shot that he couldn’t make at any time.

“He had so much fun out of the game, almost to the point where it would cost him the game sometimes.

“But he was always trying to have a laugh and a joke and he was such a fluent player.”

John’s favourite current player is Roger Federer, but he refused to be drawn in on who will take the Wimbledon title this year.

And John’s love of sport does not stop at tennis, the 93-year-old also has a love of racing fast cars.

When he turned 90, John drove an Aston Martin around Silverstone at 124mph, and harbours dreams of driving a McLaren Formula 1 race car.

Britain’s Jay Clarke and Cameron Norrie were knocked out of the men’s doubles first round at Wimbledon after a five-set thriller against Marcelo Arevalo and Hans Podlipnik-Castillo.

The pair were leading two sets to one before losing the dramatic fifth set which finished 22-20 on Court 14.

The British duo were handed a wildcard to compete in their first Grand Slam.

But fifth seed Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares beat Paolo Lorenzi and Albert Ramos-Vinolas in three sets.

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It was a comfortable victory for Britain’s Murray and his Brazilian partner – winning their match 7-5 6-2 6-1 in an hour and a half.

Murray is partnering Victoria Azarenka in the mixed doubles and their first-round match against Czechs Lucie Hradecka and Roman Jebavy was suspended a one set all because of bad light.

Teenager Clarke recovered from his earlier five-set loss to join Harriet Dart in a 4-6 6-1 6-4 mixed doubles victory over the Chinese-Swedish pair of Yang Zhaoxuan and Robert Lindstedt.

In the men’s doubles, Liverpudlian brothers Ken Skupski and Neal Skupski beat Nabeel Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer 6-4 6-4 7-6 (7-2) to reach the third round..

Compatriot Joe Salisbury is also through to round three with his Danish partner Frederik Nielsen after their opponents Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin retired two sets and 3-2 down in the third.

Dominic Inglot and Franko Skugor came through to win 6-3 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 2-6 6-2 in five sets against Santiago Gonzalez and Marcelo Demoliner.

Ken Skupski was back in action later in the day, alongside fellow Briton Anna Smith, to make it through to the mixed doubles second round with a 6-1 6-7 (3-7) 7-5 victory over Nicholas Monroe and Oksana Kalashnikova.

Heather Watson and her partner Tatjana Maria also ensured they had a place in the third round of the women’s doubles with a routine 6-3 6-1 win over Raquel Atawo and Anna-Lena Gronefeld.

But Luke Bambridge and Katie Boulter were knocked out of the mixed doubles event at the first stage, losing two tie-breaks against Andrei Vasilevski and Arina Rodionova.

And in an all-British affair, it was Neal Skupki and Naomi Broady who came through as winners in the mixed doubles first round with a two-set victory over Salisbury and Katy Dunne.