STAN STRUGGlES, JUAN WINS
london: Fourth-seeded Stan Wawrinka was extended to a fourth set before subduing American teenager Taylor Fritz to reach the second round at Wimbledon. Wawrinka, who had lost in the first round at the All England Club five times, passed the 18-year-old Fritz 7-6 (4), 6-1, 6-7 (2), 6-4 on Court 1. The 65th-ranked Fritz, making his Wimbledon debut, was the youngest man in the draw.
Also advancing was Juan Martin del Potro, the big-hitting Argentine making his first appearance at a Grand Slam since the 2014 Australian Open after a series on surgeries on his left wrist.
Del Potro beat Stephane Robert of France 6-1, 7-5, 6-0.
KYRGIOS ADVANCES
london: Back on the same No. 2 Court where his Wimbledon campaign imploded last year, Nick Kyrgios behaved and beat Radek Stepanek 6-4, 6-3, 6-7 (9), 6-1 to open his latest run at the All England Club on Tuesday.
The match really got interesting only when Kyrgios tried to finish it in the third set. He was broken serving for the match at 5-4, and was 5-2 down in the tiebreaker before squandering two match points and losing it. Kyrgios was warned for an audible obscenity in the changeover, and took out his frustration on Stepanek by rolling through the fourth set.
GASQUET, TSONGA WIN
london: French seeds Richard Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga moved into the second round of Wimbledon with straight-set wins.
No. 7 Gasquet swept past Britain’s Aljaz Bedene 6-3, 6-4, 6-3, while No. 12 Tsonga got past Spain’s Inigo Cervantes 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-4.
Gasquet reached the Wimbledon semifinals last year, while Tsonga made it to the semis in 2011 and 2012.