Johanna edges Donna 7-6, 4-6, 10-8 to enter 3rd round, while Murray enjoys easy ride
Britain's biggest hope for a women's champion at Wimbledon worked her way into the third round on Wednesday.
Johanna Konta trailed early but managed to come back and hang on for a 7-6 (4), 4-6, 10-8 victory over Donna Vekic on Centre Court.
"It's a nice feeling not to have to keep going out there," Konta said. "We were out there a long time and both of us battled incredibly hard.
"Whoever was going to draw the short straw was going to be hurting."
Konta, seeded sixth, is in the third round at the All England Club for the first time in six appearances. She reached the final at a grass-court warm-up tournament in Birmingham last month, but lost to Vekic.
"I think I overall trusted my game a bit more this time," said Konta, who is trying to become the first British woman to win the Wimbledon title since Virginia Wade in 1977. "I'm definitely here with the intention of wanting to be a part of the event for the full two weeks."
On Court 16, Daniil Medvedev expressed his anger after losing his match by throwing some coins at the foot of the chair umpire's chair.
Medvedev, an unseeded Russian who beat Stan Wawrinka in the first round, lost to Ruben Bemelmans 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3 in the second round.
After the match ended, both players shook hands with chair umpire Mariana Alves. Medvedev then grabbed his wallet and pulled out some coins and tossed them toward the chair.
"In the heat of the moment I did a bad thing and I apologize for this," said Medvedev, who denied he was implying the chair umpire was paid off. "I was just frustrated. It had no meaning."
Mean-while, Andy Murray's hip looks just fine.
The defending champion advanced to the third round at Wimbledon by beating Dustin Brown of Germany 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. Murray entered the tournament with questions about his hip after skipping two exhibition matches last week. But he has lost only 14 games so far, seven in each of his opening two matches at the All England Club. The two-time champion will next face 28th-seeded Fabio Fognini.
Thousands of fans on the grounds and without tickets to the main stadium often gather on the hill to watch the action on a giant TV screen.
The area was named Henman Hill in honor of Tim Henman, another British player but one who never was able to win the title. The nickname shifted to Murray when he came on the scene and eventually ended the country's 77-year wait for a homegrown men's winner when he won the title in 2013.
Following Konta's victory, Murray beat Dustin Brown of Germany 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.
Other women's winners on Wednesday include five-time champion Venus Williams, former No 1 Victoria Azarenka and eighth-seeded Dominika Cibulkova. For the men, seventh-seeded Marin Cilic, ninth-seeded Kei Nishikori, 12th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 16th-seeded Gilles Muller and 24th-seeded Sam Querrey advanced.
Raja-Sharan advance
Unseeded Indians Purav Raja and Divij Sharan entered the second round of the men's doubles event at the Wimbledon with a hard-earned four-set victory over British-Portuguese pair of Kyle Edmund and Joao Sousa.
The Indian duo won 7-6 (7-2) 3-6 6-4 7-6 (8-6) in little over three hours.
In fact, Raja-Sharan saved a set point in the tie-breaker of the fourth set before breaking the opposition's serve to wrap up the set and match at 8-6.