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Melbourne VIC, Australia, 29 June 2017 | tennis.com.au
Men
Grand Slam – Wimbledon
Wimbledon 2017 Men’s Singles Qualifying – London, Great Britain (Grass)R64[19] Alexander Bublik (KAZ)dBlake Mott (NSW)7-5 6-4R64Tatsuma Ito (JPN)dAlex De Minaur (NSW)6-2 6-4R64John-Patrick Smith (Qld)dMackenzie McDonald (USA)6-4 7-6(5) 6-3R64Andrew Whittington (Vic)dTim Smyczek (USA)6-7(4) 6-4 6-4Futures
John-Patrick Smith, who qualified for Wimbledon in 2015, is one win away from repeating the feat after subduing Mackenzie McDonald in three sets on Wednesday.
London, UK, 29 June 2017 | Matt Trollope
John-Patrick Smith stands one match away from the main draw at Wimbledon after a hard-fought win over American Mackenzie McDonald.
So does Andrew Whittington. who for the second match in a row came from behind to score victory – this time over Tim Smyczek.
Smith held firm in a tense final game to beat the 22-year-old McDonald 6-4 6-7(5) 6-3, sealing the one-hour, 54-minute match with an ace.
Destanee Aiava, Arina Rodionova and Lizette Cabrera were all winners on Wednesday at Roehampton to take one step closer to the Wimbledon main draw.
London, UK, 29 June 2017 | Matt Trollope
Destanee Aiava cruised past Freya Christie and into the second round of Wimbledon qualifying.
There she was joined by Arina Rodionova, who wrested control of the second set against Nina Stojanovic to advance in straight sets.
Later on Wednesday, Lizette Cabrera made it a perfect three-from-three for Australia with an impressive win over Czech Tereza Smitkova.
Nick Kyrgios and Daria Gavrilova head the Aussie charge at Wimbledon in 2017, with the youngsters both seeded 20th for this year's Championships.
London, UK, 28 June 2017 | AAP
Nick Kyrgios will have to do it the hard way if he’s to progress to the second week of Wimbledon after missing an all-important top 16 seeding for the grasscourt Grand Slam starting on Monday.
Australia’s top title hope has been seeded 20th in line with his world ranking, meaning he’ll be slightly more vulnerable at Friday’s draw in London.
A quarterfinalist on debut in 2014, Kyrgios has fallen in the fourth round the past two years.
A week on from his giant-killing exploits at Queen's, Thanasi Kokkinakis produced another strong performance at The Boodles exhibition event.
London, UK, 28 June 2017 | AAP
Thanasi Kokkinakis has continued to improve as he warms up for Wimbledon at The Boodles exhibition event.
Just one week after he upset 2016 Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic at Queen’s Club, the 21-year-old Australian produced a dominant 6-4 6-2 win over world No.16 Gilles Simon.
“I felt really good,” Kokkinakis said.
Last week two 35-year olds won the ATP 500 titles in Halle and Queens and showed once again that the age for men to play their best tennis is getting older and older. Federer easily disposed of A. Zverev 6-3, 6-1 to win his 9th Halle title while Lopez defeated Cilic 4-6, 7-6(2), 7-6(8) to win his 6th career title.
Lopez also made the final of Stuttgart the previous week so he is on a strong run and has one of the best grass court games around. With his big serve and very solid volleys, he will be someone to watch out for at Wimbledon. Federer lost his first match in Stuttgart and then same as he did after losing to Donskoy in Dubai he won the next tournament he played.
This was Federer’s 92nd overall title and 4th title of the year. The way he disposed of Zverev in the final was particularly impressive. I think he wanted to send a little message after losing to Zverev in the Halle semis last year. Zverev had no chance at all and Federer was superb.
Roger Federer has now won 92 career titles ª¾
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Aussie youngsters Ash Barty, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Olivia Tjandramulia and Alex Bolt all enjoyed significant improvements in the latest release of the WTA and ATP rankings.
Melbourne VIC, Australia, 27 June 2017 | tennis.com.au
Ash Barty’s run to last week’s Aegon Classic final in Birmingham has sent the young Aussie rocketing up the rankings toward the top 50.
Barty vaulted 23 spots to a career-high ranking of No.54, an incredible rise given she ended last season outside the world’s top 300.
Barty is even higher in the WTA Race to Singapore, sitting in 25th position.
