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WimbledonSteve Johnson and Kevin Anderson moved into the third round at Wimbledon on Wednesday while the opening round of doubles got underway. Johnson hit 41 winners (28 unforced errors) and broke Radu Albot four times in a 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win. Johnson’s career-best result at Wimbledon was a fourth round appearance a year ago but to get back he’ll need to knock out ATP #6 Marin Cilic on Friday.
Anderson only needed 1 hour and 40 minutes to get past Andreas Seppi 6-3, 7-6, 6-3. Anderson had a tremendous day serving with the South African hitting 16 aces while also winning 85% of the points on his serve. Anderson didn’t face a break point all day while he broke Seppi twice. Anderson’s career-best result at Wimbledon is the fourth-round, which he achieved in 2014 and 2015, and he’ll be a strong favorite to get back there this year with ATP #124 Ruben Bemelmans up next.
The French Open doubles champions, Michael Venus (LSU ’09) and Ryan Harrison, held on to win 9-7 in the fifth over Andre Begemann (Pepperdine ’08) and Jan-Lennard Struff. Venus and Harrison broke for 4-3 in the fifth but they were broken back in the next game. It stayed on serve until Venus and Harrison broke for 8-7 and then they fought off two breaks points to close it out.
Full results from all of today’s matches are listed down below. John Isner will be back in action on Thursday along with the other first round matches in doubles.
Wimbledon Championships
Men’s Singles – Second Round
#42 Kevin Anderson (Illinois ’07*) def. #87 Andreas Seppi 6-3, 7-6(4), 6-3
#31 Steve Johnson (USC ’12) def. #108 Radu Albot 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
#21 John Isner (Georgia ’07) vs. #90 Dudi Sela
Third Round
#42 Kevin Anderson (Illinois ’07*) vs. #124 Ruben Bemelmans
#31 Steve Johnson (USC ’12) vs. #6 Marin Cilic
Women’s Singles – Second Round
#9 Dominika Cibulkova def. #93 Jennifer Brady (UCLA ’15*) 6-4, 6-4
Men’s Doubles – First Round
[1] John Peers (Baylor ’11)/Henri Kontinen vs. Fognini/Seppi
[10] Michael Venus (LSU ’09)/Ryan Harrison def. Andre Begemann (Pepp ’08)/J-L Struff 6-3, 1-6, 4-6, 6-3, 9-7
Johan Brunstrom (SMU ’03)/Andreas Siljestrom (Middle Tenn St ’07) vs. Troicki/Zimonjic
[6] Dodig/Granollers def. Treat Huey (Virginia ’08)/Jonathan Erlich 7-6(4), 6-3, 6-7(7), 6-7(4), 6-4
Dominic Inglot (Virginia ’09)/Robin Haase vs. Petzschner/Peya
Adil Shamasdin (Brown ’05)/Leander Paes vs. Knowle/Oswald
Kokkinakis/Thompson def. [9] Jean-Julien Rojer (UCLA ’02)/Horia Tecau 7-6(4), 7-6(4), 7-6(4)
Ken Skupski (LSU ’07)/Neal Skupski (LSU ’12) vs. Joe Salisbury (Memphis ’14)/Brydan Klein
[7] Rajeev Ram (Illinois ’03*)/Raven Klaasen def. Copil/Vasdasco 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
Purav Raja (Loyola Marymount ’04)/Divij Sharan def. Edmund/Sousa 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(6)
Podlipnik-Castillo/Vasilevski def. Scott Lipsky (Stanford ’03)/Frances Tiafoe 6-4, 7-5, 5-7, 6-2
[12] Robert Farah (USC ’10)/Juan Sebastian Cabal def. Berlocq/Ramos-Vinolas 6-4, 7-6(4), 7-6(0)
[15] Peralta/Zeballos def. James Cerretani (Brown ’04)/Mikhail Elgin 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
Robert Lindstedt (Pepperdine ’98)/Sam Groth vs. Duran/Molteni
[5] Bob & Mike Bryan (Stanford ’98*) vs. Polmans/Whittington
Marcin Matkowski (UCLA ’03)/Max Mirnyi def. Max Schnur (Columbia ’15)/Cheng-Peng Hsieh 7-5, 6-1, 7-6(5)
Nicholas Monroe (North Carolina ’04)/Artem Sitak def. Sa/Sela 3-6, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(4), 6-3
JP Smith (Tennessee ’11)/Matt Reid def. [11] F Lopez/M Lopez 3-6, 7-6(2), 6-2, 6-4
Clarke/Willis def. Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (Washington ’11)/Jared Donaldson 6-7(4), 5-7, 7-6(3), 6-0, 6-3
Women’s Doubles – First Round
Dodin/Maria def. Caitlin Whoriskey (Tennessee ’10)/Ashley Weinhold 6-3, 6-2
[1] Mattek-Sands/Safarova def. Jennifer Brady (UCLA ’15*)/Alison Riske 7-5, 6-2
[6] Abigail Spears (UCLA ’00)/Katarinia Srebotnik vs. Haddad Maia/Konjuh
[11] Raquel Atawo (Cal ’04)/Jelena Ostapenko vs. Rae/Robson
Maria Sanchez (USC ’11)/Magda Linette vs. Kichenok/Savchuk
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