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New York Times
06-07-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Wimbledon recap: Cameron Norrie and Nicolas Jarry's ball-bounce drama on a stormy day
Follow The Athletic's Wimbledon coverage Welcome to the Wimbledon briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament. On day seven, there was a row over bouncing the ball, two remarkable quarterfinal records and a very in-demand outfit. Chilean qualifier Nicolás Jarry has had a good Wimbledon. He came from two sets down to win his first match against No. 8 seed Holger Rune, knocked out Brazilian phenom João Fonseca and reached the fourth round. Then, two sets down against Britain's Cameron Norrie, Jarry cracked. 'I just have to suck it because he does it always?' he asked the chair umpire. Advertisement Was Norrie shouting in his direction? Giving him death stares? Trying to hit the ball at him? No. He was bouncing the ball between his first and second serves. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Jarry felt the umpire should intervene, because it was affecting his rhythm, especially when Norrie took a long time. There is no shot clock between first and second serves, but players are supposed to hit their second 'without delay.' They have 25 seconds between points. Whatever the merits of being rattled by a player bouncing a tennis ball, it fired Jarry up. He came back to level the match, and even tried out some slow ball bounces between his own first and second serve, just to see what it felt like. Jarry served a double fault, and Norrie — and his ball-bouncing — came through to win, 6-3, 7-6(4), 6-7(7), 6-7(5), 6-3. Nicolas Jarry tried to play Cameron Norrie at his own game 😬#Wimbledon — BBC Sport (@BBCSport) July 6, 2025 Most ball-bounce drama in tennis involves whether a shot has bounced twice before a player hits it. Having such an idiosyncratic reason for aggro is pleasing, if a little overblown — especially as Jarry saw fit to involve Norrie in an elongated conversation when the match was over. Norrie said later that Jarry felt he was too 'vocal.' That's just the way the ball bounces. James Hansen Among the surprise list of players still in the Wimbledon women's draw, a couple stand out. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 34 and Laura Siegemund, 37, are tour veterans, but are playing in their second and first Wimbledon quarterfinal respectively. Pavlyuchenkova last played in one nine years ago, and said after beating Britain's Sonay Kartal that she was as surprised as anyone by her progress here. 'I always thought grass was very tricky for me through my whole career,' Pavlyuchenkova, the world No. 50, said in a news conference. She joked that had she lost, following a malfunction with the electronic line calling (ELC) that cost her a crucial game in the first set, she would 'just say, 'I hate grass and Wimbledon, like usually we always do when we lose.'' Advertisement Siegemund, who is ranked No. 104, said after beating lucky loser Solana Sierra that her run this year was overdue. Her slice-heavy game naturally matches up well on grass but she explained that clay is her best surface and she often arrived at Wimbledon tired after that swing: 'I always felt on grass that by the time I start to feel the game and I start to play better, it's already over. That was how it pretty much went every year.' She has the ultimate test next against the world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, while Pavlyuchenkova plays Amanda Anisimova, the No. 13 seed. Charlie Eccleshare On the day British women's player Kartal played her first match on Centre Court, the curators down at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum were eyeing up her Adidas kit for their collection. A collection which has 40,000 items in it, including 1,000 historic rackets, some of which date back to the 1870s. 'We've got some space for the next few years,' senior curator of an ever-growing collection, Emma Traherne, said in an interview. 'Every year we collect between 100 and 200 objects just from the Championships. We collect all year round too.' Traherne and her team spend a lot of time at auctions each year in search of historic items, but they send letters to players whose kits they want to add to the growing collection. Coco Gauff's bespoke New Balance dress, which she wore for her first-round defeat to Dayana Yastremska, is among the items to have caught their eye this year. The museum attracts 60,000 visitors per year outside the Wimbledon fortnight, but the tournament sees another 40,000 pass through during the two weeks. 'This is like our Super Bowl,' Anna Boonstra, an American fashion historian and curator working at the museum, said. Boonstra, from Chicago, is working on a food and drink exhibition which will launch after the tournament is over. She confirms that Pip, the plush strawberry toy which costs $30 and is sold out online, will most likely be included in that display. Advertisement Downstairs among the old rackets, towels and tennis crockery, which are all stored in a temperature-controlled room, sits a collection of artwork and posters. Part of the team's work also sees them become detectives. One quest is to identify the young woman in a 1928 Alfred West painting. 'It'd be interesting to see if we can work out who she is,' Traherne said, as the courts above played host to sporting moments which will be immortalised below for years to come. Caoimhe O'Neill Taylor Fritz and Karen Khachanov won their fourth-round matches Sunday to set up a quarterfinal showdown Tuesday. It's their first meeting since 2020. That's odd, isn't it? Both players have gone deep at Grand Slams and won multiple tour events. But they haven't bumped into each other on a draw sheet since before the Covid-19 pandemic. That's a pretty long time ago. Their last match took place in the ATP Cup in Australia. Khachanov won 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 in a national team competition that doesn't exist anymore. It's now known as the United Cup, and it's a mixed event. Khachanov won their only other match as well, which occurred just months before in Shanghai. That sounds about right. Khachanov is largely the player that he was then. He was the world No. 17, with an unsubtle, gritty style, mostly built around power on his serve and forehand and a two-handed backhand filled with solidity. 'Our games are quite similar overall,' Fritz said on Sunday. 'We practice all the time, so we're pretty familiar with each other's games. But yeah, I improved a ton and have become a much, much better player since the last time we played.' Indeed, Fritz is a completely different animal. He was No. 31 in the rankings, pretty one-dimensional with his serve and his forehand, and when he ran it often looked like he was about to trip over his feet, especially on grass and clay. This week, there's a decent chance he will rise from No. 5 to No. 4 in the rankings when they update next Mon. July 14. Advertisement 'He loves to play on grass, or he showed it,' Khachanov said of Fritz. 'He won two titles just now a few weeks ago. So he's really one of the dangerous players.' Matt Futterman Alcaraz plays points on grass that were barely plausible not that long ago. The movement in this one is simply absurd. 🎾 Men's singles: Marin Čilić vs. Flavio Cobolli (22) 6 a.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN+ This is likely to be the most competitive encounter in the men's matches tomorrow, along with Ben Shelton's clash with Lorenzo Sonego. Čilić, a former Wimbledon finalist plays to the grass archetype of see ball, hit ball. Cobolli tries to use more finesse. 🎾 Women's singles: Mirra Andreeva (7) vs. Emma Navarro (10) 10:30 a.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN+ Rallies, rallies, rallies. Two players who love to redirect, change pace and use the element of surprise — and a rare seed vs. seed clash for this tournament of upsets. Tell us what you noticed on the seventh day… (Top photo of Cameron Norrie and Nicolás Jarry: Getty Images; design: Eamonn Dalton / The Athletic)

Yahoo
04-07-2025
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- Yahoo
Wimbledon recap: Jarry beats Fonseca as South American tennis makes mark at All England Club
Welcome to the Wimbledon briefing, where will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament. On day five, a South American derby delivered, fortune favored a lucky loser and a second-week appearance meant more to one player than most. Advertisement Unexpected South American success in SW19 South America, and specifically Argentina, is having itself a pretty solid Wimbledon, just not in the way anyone might have expected. When the tournament started, names like Fonseca or Haddad Maia seemed far more likely for runs to the second week than the surviving South Americans. When the dust settled Friday evening, Argentina had two players in the final 16 in Nicolás Jarry and Solana Sierra. It's hard to overestimate how hard they had to get there. More on Sierra in a bit. Jarry has barely won matches since he made the Italian Open final last year. He had to survive qualifying to earn a first-round date with Holger Rune, where he came back from two sets down to win. On Friday he beat João Fonseca, tipped for stardom when he is a little older, in four sets. Advertisement South America, a continent with a fervent tennis fan base, doesn't get a proportional share of attention from the tours. North America has four 1,000-level events, just below the Grand Slams. Europe has five. There is one in Dubai and one in Doha, plus the WTA Tour Finals in Saudi Arabia, which is earmarked to get a 1,000 in the future. South America has zero. Hopes for changing that may rest with Fonseca, a supreme talent from Brazil, the continent's largest country. South America has been without a big-time player since Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil a quarter-century ago. Tennis officials describe Fonseca as a potential game-changer. That's a lot to put on the shoulders of a teenager playing his first year of ATP Tour tennis. Fonseca has said he can feel the pressure. He knows what the sport and Brazilians at home and abroad are hoping for him. It's going to take a little time, and the third round of his first Wimbledon is a very respectable showing given that he has barely played on grass. Carlos Alcaraz only made the second round of his first Wimbledon in 2021, when he was 18. He made the third round of the French Open that year and the second round of the Australian Open. Advertisement Fonseca has made the last 32 here and in Paris, and the second round in Australia. After the loss to Jarry, he spoke about how much he is learning about Grand Slam tennis and ups and downs of a five-set match. In Australia, he wondered whether he could last five sets. Now he knows he can, and that things can change very quickly. 'When you go to a Grand Slam, the players play differently,' he said. They are much more focused.' He hears the noise, people saying he is the next Sinner or Alcaraz. He appreciates it, but is trying to stay inside his head, no matter what anyone else says. 'I'm just going to be me,' he said. 'Some people understand that.' Advertisement At a Wimbledon of upsets, fortune favors the lucky loser Now for Sierra. Amid all the chaos and upsets this week, it's fitting that Friday saw another first for the underdog. By beating Cristina Bucșa, Solana Sierra became the first lucky loser to reach the Wimbledon fourth round in the Open Era. Lucky loser is the term given to players who lose in qualifying but then get a spot in the main draw when someone pulls out. So they are ranked outside the top 100, and have just lost to players in a similar postcode: the underdog's underdog. Sierra, 21 and from Argentina, is ranked No. 101. She had never won a Grand Slam match before this week, and only had eight wins at WTA Tour level with none on grass. She won 52 of 72 matches in 2024 on the third-tier ITF World Tennis Tour, but lost her only match on grass then too — in Wimbledon qualifying. Advertisement Her run follows Eva Lys, another lucky loser, reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open in January, which is also an Open Era first. Next up for Sierra is a last-16 match against Siegemund on Sunday. Who, appropriately enough for this Wimbledon, is ranked lower than her, at No. 104. Yet another reminder of the depth in women's tennis — and of the randomness of this year's Wimbledon. Two very different Wimbledons for one player At Wimbledon 2024, Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev reached the bottom of a very deep hole. In a first-round defeat to Argentina's Francisco Comesana, Rublev obliterated his racket against his leg in frustration, as had become a habit for him. Advertisement Rublev, who has reached 10 major quarterfinals but never gone beyond the last eight at a Grand Slam, later discussed the impact of tennis on his mind at that time. He acknowledged that defeats had left him without control of his thoughts off the court, that he had reached a point when he did not 'see the reason of living life.' 'Sometimes you learn the most from the worst cases,' Rublev said during an interview in Dubai earlier this year, another place of things were coming full circle. At the 2023 Dubai Tennis Championships, Rublev was defaulted from a match against Alexander Bublik after he screamed in the face of the line judge and was alleged to have used a Russian expletive. Rublev was defaulted from the match, and was stripped of his prize money and ranking points from the tournament, but they were later reinstated. For Rublev, learning meant speaking to a psychologist, as well as reconfiguring his feelings about himself as a tennis player. No, he has never reached a Grand Slam semifinal. But going deep in the biggest events and being a reliable fixture at them? That makes him a good player. How can he put himself down about that, he would think. That mindset explains why reaching the second week this year is such a milestone. Rublev returned to a site of one of his most painful moments, and has produced a calm, consistent level of tennis even while so many seeds around him are losing. Advertisement 'Now this year, of course, I'm happy that I am able to win three matches,' he said in his news conference after beating Adrian Mannarino 7-5, 6-2, 6-3 to reach the fourth round. 'So I did better than last year. It's already better than nothing.' Other notable results on day five Aryna Sabalenka (1) was pushed all the way by Emma Raducanu and the Centre Court crowd, but came through 7-6(6), 6-4. Madison Keys (6) was bamboozled by a grass masterclass from Germany's Laura Siegemund. Keys, who then skipped her media duties due to illness, lost 6-3, 6-3. Taylor Fritz (5) got past a bleeding elbow and a blistered foot to beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (26) in four sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-1. Advertisement And Carlos Alcaraz (2) dropped a set to the all-attack German Jan-Lennard Struff, but came through 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Shot of the day Day six matches you should actually watch 🎾 Men's singles, 6 a.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN+ Flavio Cobolli (22) vs. Jakub Menšík (15) A match between two rising prospects, who are high on talent but have struggled to produce it in tight moments at Grand Slams. Menšík has a gigantic serve but his forehand can get shaky in tight moments, while Cobolli can find himself overpowered despite his skill and flair. 🎾 Women's singles, 11 a.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN+ Iga Świątek (8) vs. Danielle Collins Świątek has a 7-2 record against Collins, but a strangely one-sided beef between them, which started with Collins calling Świątek insincere at the 2024 Olympic Games, gives this contest some bite. Collins also thrashed Świątek in their last meeting. Advertisement Wimbledon men's draw 2025 Wimbledon women's draw 2025 Tell us what you noticed on the fifth day… This article originally appeared in The Athletic. Sports Business, Tennis, Women's Tennis 2025 The Athletic Media Company


New York Times
04-07-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Wimbledon recap: Jarry beats Fonseca as South American tennis makes mark at All England Club
Follow The Athletic's Wimbledon coverage Welcome to the Wimbledon briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament. On day five, a South American derby delivered, fortune favored a lucky loser and a second-week appearance meant more to one player than most. South America, and specifically Argentina, is having itself a pretty solid Wimbledon, just not in the way anyone might have expected. When the tournament started, names like Fonseca or Haddad Maia seemed far more likely for runs to the second week than the surviving South Americans. When the dust settled Friday evening, Argentina had two players in the final 16 in Nicolás Jarry and Solana Sierra. It's hard to overestimate how hard they had to get there. More on Sierra in a bit. Advertisement Jarry has barely won matches since he made the Italian Open final last year. He had to survive qualifying to earn a first-round date with Holger Rune, where he came back from two sets down to win. On Friday he beat João Fonseca, tipped for stardom when he is a little older, in four sets. South America, a continent with a fervent tennis fan base, doesn't get a proportional share of attention from the tours. North America has four 1,000-level events, just below the Grand Slams. Europe has five. There is one in Dubai and one in Doha, plus the WTA Tour Finals in Saudi Arabia, which is earmarked to get a 1,000 in the future. South America has zero. Hopes for changing that may rest with Fonseca, a supreme talent from Brazil, the continent's largest country. South America has been without a big-time player since Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil a quarter-century ago. Tennis officials describe Fonseca as a potential game-changer. That's a lot to put on the shoulders of a teenager playing his first year of ATP Tour tennis. Fonseca has said he can feel the pressure. He knows what the sport and Brazilians at home and abroad are hoping for him. It's going to take a little time, and the third round of his first Wimbledon is a very respectable showing given that he has barely played on grass. Carlos Alcaraz only made the second round of his first Wimbledon in 2021, when he was 18. He made the third round of the French Open that year and the second round of the Australian Open. Fonseca has made the last 32 here and in Paris, and the second round in Australia. After the loss to Jarry, he spoke about how much he is learning about Grand Slam tennis and ups and downs of a five-set match. In Australia, he wondered whether he could last five sets. Now he knows he can, and that things can change very quickly. Advertisement 'When you go to a Grand Slam, the players play differently,' he said. They are much more focused.' He hears the noise, people saying he is the next Sinner or Alcaraz. He appreciates it, but is trying to stay inside his head, no matter what anyone else says. 'I'm just going to be me,' he said. 'Some people understand that.' Matt Futterman Now for Sierra. Amid all the chaos and upsets this week, it's fitting that Friday saw another first for the underdog. By beating Cristina Bucșa, Solana Sierra became the first lucky loser to reach the Wimbledon fourth round in the Open Era. Lucky loser is the term given to players who lose in qualifying but then get a spot in the main draw when someone pulls out. So they are ranked outside the top 100, and have just lost to players in a similar postcode: the underdog's underdog. Sierra, 21 and from Argentina, is ranked No. 101. She had never won a Grand Slam match before this week, and only had eight wins at WTA Tour level with none on grass. She won 52 of 72 matches in 2024 on the third-tier ITF World Tennis Tour, but lost her only match on grass then too — in Wimbledon qualifying. Her run follows Eva Lys, another lucky loser, reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open in January, which is also an Open Era first. Next up for Sierra is a last-16 match against Siegemund on Sunday. Who, appropriately enough for this Wimbledon, is ranked lower than her, at No. 104. Yet another reminder of the depth in women's tennis — and of the randomness of this year's Wimbledon. Charlie Eccleshare At Wimbledon 2024, Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev reached the bottom of a very deep hole. In a first-round defeat to Argentina's Francisco Comesana, Rublev obliterated his racket against his leg in frustration, as had become a habit for him. Rublev, who has reached 10 major quarterfinals but never gone beyond the last eight at a Grand Slam, later discussed the impact of tennis on his mind at that time. He acknowledged that defeats had left him without control of his thoughts off the court, that he had reached a point when he did not 'see the reason of living life.' Advertisement 'Sometimes you learn the most from the worst cases,' Rublev said during an interview in Dubai earlier this year, another place of things were coming full circle. At the 2023 Dubai Tennis Championships, Rublev was defaulted from a match against Alexander Bublik after he screamed in the face of the line judge and was alleged to have used a Russian expletive. Rublev was defaulted from the match, and was stripped of his prize money and ranking points from the tournament, but they were later reinstated. For Rublev, learning meant speaking to a psychologist, as well as reconfiguring his feelings about himself as a tennis player. No, he has never reached a Grand Slam semifinal. But going deep in the biggest events and being a reliable fixture at them? That makes him a good player. How can he put himself down about that, he would think. That mindset explains why reaching the second week this year is such a milestone. Rublev returned to a site of one of his most painful moments, and has produced a calm, consistent level of tennis even while so many seeds around him are losing. 'Now this year, of course, I'm happy that I am able to win three matches,' he said in his news conference after beating Adrian Mannarino 7-5, 6-2, 6-3 to reach the fourth round. 'So I did better than last year. It's already better than nothing.' James Hansen 🎾 Men's singles, 6 a.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN+ Flavio Cobolli (22) vs. Jakub Menšík (15) A match between two rising prospects, who are high on talent but have struggled to produce it in tight moments at Grand Slams. Menšík has a gigantic serve but his forehand can get shaky in tight moments, while Cobolli can find himself overpowered despite his skill and flair. Advertisement 🎾 Women's singles, 11 a.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN+ Iga Świątek (8) vs. Danielle Collins Świątek has a 7-2 record against Collins, but a strangely one-sided beef between them, which started with Collins calling Świątek insincere at the 2024 Olympic Games, gives this contest some bite. Collins also thrashed Świątek in their last meeting. Tell us what you noticed on the fifth day… (Top photo of TK: Getty Images; design: Eamonn Dalton / The Athletic)
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Wimbledon 2025: Brazil's João Fonseca becomes youngest man to reach third round since 2011
Brazil's João Fonseca is the youngest man to reach the third round of Wimbledon since Australia's Bernard Tomic in 2011. Fonseca, 18, achieved that feat Wednesday when he bested American Jenson Brooksby 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4. Advertisement Fonseca didn't just rewrite some All England Club history with the victory. He also became the first Brazilian man to reach this stage of the grass Grand Slam since Thomaz Bellucci in 2010. Fonseca prevailed against the 24-year-old Brooksby in a four-set match that lasted three hours and 14 minutes. He'll now face Chile's Nicolás Jarry in the third round. This story is being updated.
Yahoo
02-07-2025
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Wimbledon 2025: Fearnley has no answers for the Brazilian tipped as the next big thing in tennis
Brazil's Joao Fonseca in action during his first round match against Britain's Jacob Fearnley at Wimbledon (Reuters via Beat Media Group subscription) By James Toney at Wimbledon It felt more like Club Tropicana than the All England Club as Wimbledon sweltered in record temperatures. So perhaps it was only fitting that a boy from Brazil should flourish in the conditions; south-west London was more Rio de Janeiro than Dalkeith, which only spelled further disappointment for Scot Jacob Fearnley. Advertisement Fearnley may start to question his luck at Wimbledon. Last year he ran into Novak Djokovic; this time it was the sport's next big thing. João Fonseca is enjoying a breakthrough season. The 18-year-old Brazilian claimed his maiden ATP title earlier this year and made an eye-catching Grand Slam debut by defeating then-world No 9 Andrey Rublev at the Australian Open. Fonseca had already got the better of Fearnley twice this season — in Indian Wells and Canberra — and again looked the stronger player here, winning 6-4, 6-1, 7-6 to advance with ease. Fearnley, who reached the second round on his Wimbledon debut last year and took a set off Djokovic, rose into the world's top 50 on the back of those performances. His recent third-round runs at both the Australian and French Opens have further underlined his Grand Slam potential. Advertisement Yet Fonseca, ranked three places below Fearnley, is on an unmistakably upward trajectory. Unlike Gustavo Kuerten — the last Brazilian man to win a major — Fonseca appears to relish the grass, and has all the makings of a crowd favourite for years to come. Kuerten never hid his disdain for the grass-court season, squeezed awkwardly between Roland Garros, where he triumphed three times, and the North American hard courts. Fonseca, by contrast, looks entirely at ease. He is an aggressive baseliner who is unafraid to come forward, armed with a powerful forehand reminiscent of his idol, Roger Federer. Facing a home favourite at Wimbledon brings its own pressures, but the teenager - who beat four Argentinians en route to that maiden title in Buenos Aires - silenced the home crowd with maturity and flair. Advertisement 'I knew what to expect coming in, and I didn't execute my game plan,' admitted Fearnley. 'It was a tough draw, and he played better than me, I didn't really play my best. 'He served really well; he backs himself, and that's something I need to improve on. I had a bad serving day, got off to a slow start, and never really recovered. I hit a lot of double faults, but that wasn't the real difference — I just needed to serve smarter. I kept going to his forehand, which was a silly mistake. 'Perhaps I shouldn't have put so much pressure on myself before the match, I think that worked against me in the end.' Fearnley didn't find his rhythm until the third set and should have forced a fourth, squandering a set point and an early lead in the tie-break. Still only 23, he is fast learning how unforgiving Grand Slam tennis can be when opportunities slip by. Advertisement Defending ranking points from last year's second-round run, he is likely to slide slightly in the standings but remains focused on the hard court season and the goal of reaching the US Open main draw for the first time. His task now is to ensure he becomes more than a footnote in Fonseca's rise - and a serious rival in the years ahead. 'This means a lot, this has been my favourite Slam since I was a kid,' Fonseca said. 'I'm just sorry I had to beat a British guy. 'Jacob is a great friend and a great player, and I hope we have many more matches. I thought we were both nervous at the start. 'I've worked really hard since losing in the first round of qualifying here last year. There are no shortcuts — I've got belief, and I'm dreaming.' Fearnley was last year's surprise first-round winner, rewarded with a Centre Court date against a former champion. This year, that baton passed to fellow Briton Oliver Tarvet. Advertisement Ranked 733 in the world - the lowest-ranked player in the draw - Tarvet became the first British man in eight years to reach the main draw through three rounds of qualifying. He beat Swiss qualifier Leandro Riedi, a former world No 117, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. The 21-year-old, who studies at the University of San Diego, cannot collect his guaranteed £93,000 prize money due to NCAA rules governing collegiate athletes in the United States. But money cannot buy the experience of a second-round tie with the defending champion, Carlos Alcaraz. 'I'm confident I can win against anyone and Alcaraz is no exception,' said Tarvet. 'He's done an incredible amount in the game and is a hard guy not to respect. But I'll treat it like any other match. I try to play the ball, not the player. I just won't let the moment get too big.' Advertisement Elsewhere, Billy Harris — the 30-year-old from the Isle of Man, appearing in just his second Wimbledon — progressed to the second round for the first time with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 win over Dusan Lajovic. He will be joined there by fellow Briton Arthur Fery, who upset the 20th seed, Alexei Popyrin, 6-4, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, and former semi-finalist Cameron Norrie. For the latest action on the British summer grass court season, check out the LTA website.