First on Centre Court today, looking to book a place in the quarter-finals, we had Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Corentin Moutet. This was a great match to watch with some thrilling points between two creative players. Davidovich Fokina won the first set with just one break of serve, 6-4. The Spaniard appeared to have carried the momentum into the second set when he went a double break up. Moutet was able to rescue one break of serve and, though faced with a real challenge in his own service game, followed this up with a hold to get the score back to 3-2. Corentin Moutet then had three break points on Davidovich’s serve but he was not able to convert any of them. The Spaniard finished the match in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3 to advance.

Next on Centre Court we had Tommy Paul facing the Netherlands’ Boltic van de Zandschulp. There were four breaks of serve in total in the first set as both players went back and forth to keep the set level at 6-6. We went to a tie break in which the Dutchman won the first three points. Tommy Paul showed great composure to turn this around and get himself two set points at 6-4. It was the second of these on his serve that he was able to capitalise on to take the lead one set to love. Tommy Paul then broke his opponent’s serve in the first game of the second set, and van de Zandschulp appeared to be struggling physically when he got the trainer out. The Dutchman held his resistance until, when serving to stay in the match, Paul broke his serve again to settle a commanding two set victory.

Up for the next quarter-finals spot, we then had Jiri Lehecka versus Rinky Hijikata – the Australian who, at rank 104 in the world, came through qualifying. Lehecka broke his opponent’s serve in the first game, and it was looking like tough going for Hijikata at 15-40 down in his second service game. Importantly he managed to turn that game around and get the crucial hold. The one break of serve for Lehecka was all that was needed though and he won that set 6-4. A break in the first game of the second set looked ominous for Hajikata, but he replied straight away to get back level. After another exchange of service breaks nearing the end of the set, Hijikata broke again at the defining moment to take us into a decider with a 7-5 scoreline. The final set was a nail biter topped off with a tie break that went 9-7 in Hijikata’s favour for him to complete the comeback after 2 hours 47 minutes on court.

Finally, Serbian Hamad Medjedovic took on Ugo Humbert from France. The clock was certainly ticking on play as we got underway after 7:30pm for this one. It didn’t look like this would be much of an issue when Medjedovic raced to a 6-2 win in the first set with a clinical serving performance. It was a closer second set, Humbert found himself facing four match points on his serve but the Frenchman was defiant and took us to a tie break. This match finished 1-1 for the evening as Ugo Humbert won the second set tie break and so the final set will be played tomorrow.

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