Three British players win but 14 out in first round

Swan becomes first Briton to reach second round at Wimbledon

>Katie Swan, Jacob Fearnley and Arthur Fery ensured there will be British representation in the Wimbledon singles second round - but 14 home players fell to opening-round defeats for the first time in 32 years.

>The 10 defeats for British players on the opening day of their home Grand Slam was the most at SW19 since daily records began in 2000.

>Further defeats for Katie Boulter, Jack Pinnington Jones, Billy Harris and debutant Harry Wendelken on Tuesday meant the total number of first-round losses for home players reached 14 for the first time since 1994.

>But Swan, who considered retiring from tennis in 2024 because of a persistent back injury, avoided the same fate in her first Grand Slam appearance for three years as she became the first British player to progress this year with a 6-4 6-4 victory over Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu.

>The 27-year-old threw herself to the ground as she celebrated the win - her first in the main draw of a major since she beat the same opponent at Wimbledon in 2018.

>Fery battled back from a set down to secure an impressive victory over Bosnia's Damir Dzumhur, losing just five of the final 23 games in a 3-6 6-2 6-2 6-1 win.

>Fearnley appeared set to become the latest British player to exit when he trailed American Alex Michelsen by two sets, but the world number 159 produced a superb comeback to prevail 3-6 4-6 6-2 6-3 6-2 after three and a half hours.

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>In an abysmal opening day for home hopes, Cameron Norrie, the highest-ranked Briton, was among 10 British players who quickly toppled out of the tournament.

>There was further disappointment when Jack Draper announced his withdrawal 24 hours before his opening match because of injury.

>That followed Emma Raducanu's withdrawal on the eve of the Championships with a stress fracture in her right leg.

>But Swan offered a glimmer of hope for British interest with a clinical serving performance on Court 16 before further successes for Fery and Fearnley.

>Swan, who won 88% of her first-serve points, did not face a break point until she was serving for the match - but she held her nerve to seal a hard-fought win on her fifth match point.

>Her reward is a second-round meeting with either 2025 Australian Open champion Madison Keys or American qualifier Kayla Day.

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>Boulter was among the British hopes to fall at the first hurdle on day two as she lost 6-2 6-4 to Italian teenager Tyra Caterina Grant.

>It is the first time since 2017 that Boulter has lost in the opening round at Wimbledon in what is her first loss to a qualifier at a Grand Slam tournament.

>It comes just 18 days after she achieved the biggest win of her career by ranking, when she defeated world number two Elena Rybakina in a stunning performance at Queen's.

>Seeking to push back against unwanted British history on court three, Boulter got off to the worst possible start as the 18-year-old Grant, who had never contested a singles match on grass at any level prior to Wimbledon qualifying this year, went an early break up.

>Boulter could not respond as the opening set slipped away and she was unable to recover from another setback early in the second.

>The Briton did not force a single break point in the match, with Grant, making her Grand Slam main-draw debut, dropping just three points across her final four service games as she comfortably served out victory.

>Last year, 13 British players went out in round one. Not since 1988 have as many as 16 fallen at the first hurdle.

>Pinnington Jones played just five games after returning to complete his match against American 28th seed Brandon Nakashima, losing 6-3 7-6 (7-5) 7-5 after trailing 4-3 in the third set when play was suspended late on Monday.

>Harris took a set off Russian 19th seed Karen Khachanov but ultimately fell to a 6-3 5-7 6-3 6-3 loss.

>Wendelken, ranked 202nd in the world, took the first set against French world number 75 Valentin Royer but eventually lost 4-6 6-3 6-3 6-3.

>Nine British players are in action in total on Tuesday, with Eastbourne semi-finalist Toby Samuel facing 15th seed Jakub Mensik, and British number two Jan Choinski taking on Vit Kopriva.

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