![]() ![]() "But in order to one day win a tournament like this, I need to be able to beat players like today and many different players along the way." The reality is I lost today, and there is nothing I can do anymore, even though of course I had higher ambitions for this tournament. "It's very disappointing, that's for sure," he told reporters. Wimbledon 2022: Serena stunned by Tan in first-round epic Of the other British players in action, Heather Watson faces German Tamara Korpatsch, Harriet Dart meets Spain's Rebeka Masarova, Katie Swan and Jodie Burrage both take on Ukrainians in Marta Kostyuk and Lesia Tsurenko, respectively, Liam Broady plays Lukas Klein of Slovakia and Jay Clarke faces American Christian Harrison.Felix Auger-Aliassime became the highest men's seed to exit this year's Wimbledon on Tuesday when serve-and-volley specialist Maxime Cressy sent the Canadian sixth seed packing with a 6-7(5) 6-4 7-6(9) 7-6(5) win in the opening round.Īuger-Aliassime, who reached the quarter-finals of the grasscourt Grand Slam last year, failed to find a way to break Cressy's serve during the marathon contest that lasted four hours and 10 minutes. Sonay Kartal, who has surged up the rankings this season, takes on Danka Kovinic with the carrot of a potential second-round clash against Swiatek while fellow debutant Alastair Gray takes on former junior champion Tseng Chun-hsin. Ninth seed Cameron Norrie, who is bidding to reach the fourth round at a grand slam for the first time, will open against Spanish veteran Pablo Andujar, while Katie Boulter and Ryan Peniston, who have also both been in excellent form on the grass, meet Clara Burel and Henri Laaksonen, respectively. Murray, who is unseeded, has drawn Australian James Duckworth in round one. Raducanu, who is hopeful of overcoming a side strain in time, has one of the trickier draws against experienced Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck. ![]() Remarkably, of the 17 British representatives in the men's and women's singles, not one drew a seeded player in the first round. In the Wimbledon draw earlier today, Draper was drawn against Belgian wild card Zizou Bergs - winner of the recent second-tier Challenger tournament in Ilkley.īritish hopes at Wimbledon will be high after an encouraging draw for the home players led by Emma Raducanu and Andy Murray. Jack Draper vs Maxime Cressy: as it happened Two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova will play defending champion Jelena Ostapenko in the final of the women's draw following their respective straight-set wins over Beatriz Haddad Maia and Camila Giorgi earlier on Friday. The France-born American, who defeated Cameron Norrie and Dan Evans in the previous rounds, will face either 2019 winner Taylor Fritz or reigning champion Alex de Minaur in Saturday's final. In a tense encounter containing just a single a break of serve, world No 60 Cressy continued his conquering of the homegrown players to edge through 7-6 (5) 6-7 (2) 6-3. Jack Draper's dreams of a maiden ATP Tour final were extinguished following an agonising three-set loss to Maxime Cressy at the Rothesay International in Eastbourne. Draper's match against Cressy not only represented the furthest stage he had reached in an ATP event, but was also the longest competitive match of his adult career.After falling behind in the first tie-break, Draper held his nerve to win the second set tie-break and push the match to a third set.The British No 4 was defeated by Franco-American Maxime Cressy, who won 7-6 (7-5), 6-6 (2-7), 6-3. ![]()
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