Canada's Fernandez, Auger-Aliassime, Diallo advance to 2nd round at Wimbledon

Canada's Leylah Fernandez, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Gabriel Diallo are moving connected to the 2nd circular astatine Wimbledon.

Fernandez cruised to a 6-1, 6-3 triumph implicit Great Britain's Hannah Klugman successful her first-round lucifer Monday.

Fernandez, the 29th seed, dominated with 23 winners to 10 for the 16-year-old Klugman, ranked 573rd successful the world.

The 22-year-old from Laval, Que., besides converted 5 of six interruption constituent opportunities to triumph the lucifer successful 1 hr 9 minutes. Fernandez has ne'er precocious past the 2nd circular astatine the All England Club.

WATCH l Fernandez tops Klugman successful consecutive sets:

Montreal's Auger-Aliassime rallied backmost from 2 sets to 1 down to decision Australia's James Duckworth 6-2, 3-6, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4.

Auger-Aliassime, the 25th seed, deed 69 winners compared to 27 for Duckworth, but the Canadian besides committed 54 unforced errors.

The 24-year-old Auger-Aliassime — a Wimbledon quarter-finalist successful 2021 — besides struck 26 aces and went 5 for 15 connected interruption constituent chances successful the three-hour 42-minute match.

WATCH l Auger-Aliassime rallies past Duckworth:

Diallo, 23, rolled to triumph successful his Wimbledon main-draw debut, winning 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 implicit Germany's Daniel Altmaier.

The Montreal autochthonal deed 7 aces, 30 winners — to 15 for Altmaier — and capitalized connected six of 12 interruption points.

Diallo boasts a career-high No. 40 ranking aft winning his archetypal ATP rubric astatine the Libema Open successful 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands earlier successful June.

WATCH l Diallo defeats Altmaier:

Next up, Fernandez is acceptable to instrumentality connected Germany's Laura Siegemund successful second-round enactment Wednesday, portion Auger-Aliassime is scheduled to look Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff.

Diallo volition conscionable the victor of the lucifer betwixt No. 5 effect Taylor Fritz of the U.S. and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard of France.

Branstine, who was calved successful California but represents Canada done household ties successful Toronto, fired 7 aces and matched Sabalenka with 17 winners, but the Canadian committed 26 unforced errors and was incapable to person her lone breakpoint chance.

Still, Branstine recovered her bushed successful the 2nd set, and Sabalenka took notice.

"In the archetypal set, she didn't service great, but successful the second, astir of her serves were 120mph, which is crazy," Sabalenka said. "I was fortunate to interruption her successful 1 game. Tough match, pugnacious win."

WATCH l Sabalenka ousts Branstine in 1st round:

The 23-year-old Branstine, ranked 194th successful the world, earned her spot done past week's qualifying tourney astatine the All England Club.

Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., the 27th seed, was acceptable to instrumentality connected Argentina's Mariano Navone connected Tuesday.

Alcaraz survives against Fognini

Two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz needed to spell done much than 4 1/2 hours of back-and-forth shifts against a much-older and much-less-accomplished Fabio Fognini astatine Centre Court earlier emerging with a 7-5, 6-7 (5), 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 triumph successful the archetypal circular connected Monday.

The No. 2-seeded Alcaraz had a overmuch tougher clip than anyone apt expected earlier helium managed to widen his existent winning streak to a career-best 19 matches.

Consider, to statesman with, that Alcaraz is 22 and already a five-time Grand Slam champion, including his latest astatine the French Open 3 weeks ago.

Consider, too, that Fognini is 38, plans to discontinue aft this season, has ne'er been past the 3rd circular astatine the All England Club successful 15 appearances and reached the quarterfinals astatine immoderate large tourney conscionable once— mode backmost astatine the 2011 French Open. He besides entered Monday ranked 138th and with an 0-6 grounds successful 2025.

Oh, and past there's this: Only doubly has the reigning men's champion astatine Wimbledon been beaten successful the archetypal circular the pursuing year, Lleyton Hewitt successful 2003 and Manuel Santana successful 1967.

There were times Monday erstwhile Alcaraz appeared to beryllium thing little than his best, acold from the signifier helium displayed during his epic five-set, 5 1/2-hour comeback triumph implicit No. 1 Jannik Sinner for the title astatine Roland-Garros.

He double-faulted 9 times. He faced a hard-to-believe 21 interruption points. He made much unforced errors, 62, than winners, 52.

But astatine the outset of the 5th — the archetypal clip the erstwhile year's antheral champ was pushed that acold successful the archetypal circular since Roger Federer successful 2010 — Alcaraz recalibrated himself.

The Spaniard broke to pb 2-0 successful the past acceptable with a backhand volley winner. In the adjacent game, helium saved a brace of interruption points, earlier the lucifer was paused for much than 10 minutes due to the fact that a spectator felt sick amid record-breaking precocious temperatures for Day 1 of Wimbledon.

When they resumed, Alcaraz continued to enforce himself and outplay Fognini the remainder of the way.

Medvedev stunned by No. 64 Bonzi

Ninth-seeded Daniil Medvedev is retired of different Grand Slam tourney successful the archetypal circular aft losing to 64th-ranked Benjamin Bonzi 7-6 (2), 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2 connected Monday.

The 2.01-metre (six-foot-six) Russian, a semifinalist astatine the All England Club the past 2 years, besides exited the French Open successful the archetypal round. And that followed a second-round nonaccomplishment astatine the Australian Open to 19-year-old qualifier Learner Tien.

"For the moment, I'm not that worried," said Medvedev, who is ranked No. 9. "If I decorativeness the twelvemonth determination astir [No.] 15 successful the world, possibly I volition beryllium much worried. For the moment, I americium not."

The past clip Medvedev mislaid consecutive Grand Slam first-round matches was successful 2017 — astatine Melbourne Park successful his large tourney debut, followed by Roland-Garros.

Medvedev mislaid successful 5 sets to Cameron Norrie successful Paris this year. In 2023, the Russian was seeded No. 2 astatine Roland-Garros and mislaid successful the archetypal circular to Thiago Seyboth Wild, a qualifier who was ranked 172nd astatine the time.