HARRIET DART AND JACOB FEARNLEY REACH SECOND ROUND AT WIMBLEDON - BUT PAUL JUBB CRASHES OUT AFTER HAVING MATCH POINT IN FIVE-SET THRILLER ON DIFFICULT DAY FOR THE BRITISH MEN
- Dart produced an impressive performance to beat China's Bai Zhuouxuan
Harriet Dart produced an accomplished display to beat Chinese qualifier Bai Zhuoxuan in straight-sets - but there was heartbreak for Paul Jubb on day two at Wimbledon.
First up on Court 18, Dart had to be patient against the world number 95 and survived an hour's rain delay before she claimed a 6-4 6-0 win.
It sets up a second-round tie with compatriot and familiar foe Katie Boulter, who swept aside Tatjana Maria.
Paul Jubb missed out on a first Wimbledon win in agonising fashion, falling in five sets to big-hitting Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild.
Jubb led by two sets to love and had a match point in the third-set tie-break but he could not take it and Seyboth Wild fought back to win 1-6 3-6 7-6 (6) 6-4 7-5.
British wild card Jacob Fearnley continued his dream summer with a straight-sets victory over Alejandro Moro Canas to set up a second-round tie with Novak Djokovic.
Fearnley only finished his five-year stint at Texas Christian University in May and was ranked outside the top 500 until he won an ATP Challenger event in Nottingham as a qualifier last month.
It helped earn the 22-year-old from Scotland a wild card for this year's Championships and he marked his debut with a 7-5 6-4 7-6 (12) victory on a buoyant Court Eight.
Elsewhere, Paul Jubb suffered a heartbreaking defeat as he lost in five sets to Thaigo Seyboth Wild.
Jubb led by two sets but Wild rallied to claim a 1-6, 3-6, 7-6, 6-4, 7-5 win.
Elsewhere, the break-out summer of Britain's Billy Harris came to an end with a four-set defeat by Jaume Munar in the first round.
The 29-year-old from Nottingham, who spent most of his journeyman career travelling to lower-level events in a transit van until he landed a wild card for this year's Championships, was beaten 6-4 6-4 3-6 6-3.
British wildcard Jan Choinski is also out after suffering an agonising exit following defeat to world number 37 Luciano Darderi in a rain-delayed five-set thriller.
German-born Choinski, the son of a British ballet dancer, was a set and a game down in the first-round tie when play was initially suspended due to wet weather in south-west London.
The towering 28-year-old impressively hit back to lead but Italian Darderi levelled at two sets all ahead of a second enforced break in play before completing a 7-5 4-6 2-6 7-5 6-2 win in three-and-a-half hours.
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