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2021 WIMBLEDON
DAY 3 MEN’S NOTES
Wednesday 30 June
1st Round – Bottom Half
2nd round – Top Half
Featured matches – 2nd round, top half
No.1 Novak Djokovic (SRB) v Kevin Anderson (RSA)
No. 5 Andrey Rublev (RUS) v Lloyd Harris (RSA)
No. 8 Roberto Bautista (ESP) v Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)
No.9 Diego Schwartzman (ARG) v (WC) Liam Broady (GBR)
No. 22 Daniel Evans (GBR) v Dusan Lajovic (SRB)
(WC) Andy Murray (GBR) v (Q) Oscar Otte (GER)
Featured matches – 1st round, bottom half
No. 7 Matteo Berrettini (ITA) v Guido Pella (ARG)
No. 11 Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP) v Sam Querrey (USA)
No. 12 Casper Ruud (NOR) v Jordan Thompson (AUS)
No. 13 Gael Monfils (FRA) v (Q) Christopher O’Connell (AUS) – to be completed; O’Connell leads 46 62 76(5)
46 3-2
No. 16 Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) v Thiago Monteiro (BRA)
No. 18 Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) v Fernando Verdasco (ESP)
No. 21 Ugo Humbert (FRA) v Nick Kyrgios (AUS) – to be completed; level at 46 64 63 16 3-3
No. 29 Cameron Norrie (GBR) v Lucas Pouille (FRA) – to be completed; Pouille leads 76(6)
Kei Nishikori (JPN) v Alexei Popyrin (AUS)
On court today…
• The first match on Centre Court today sees a re-match of the 2018 Wimbledon final between world No.1
Novak Djokovic and Kevin Anderson. Djokovic will be hoping to continue his perfect record against Anderson
at Wimbledon – having won all 3 of their previous meetings here – as he continues on his quest for Wimbledon
title number 6.
• The 3rd match on Centre Court today will see Andy Murray take on qualifier Oscar Otte who advanced to the
2nd round with a 5-set victory over another qualifier Arthur Rinderknech. The match, which began on Monday
but concluded on Tuesday after bad light stopped play, was the 2nd Wimbledon men’s singles match – after
the 2019 final between Djokovic and Roger Federer – to be decided by a final set tiebreak. Murray has never
lost at a Grand Slam to a player ranked as low as No. 151 Otte and the home crowd will be hoping that does
not change today.
• Following rain delays on both Monday and Tuesday, 27 1st round matches remain to be completed or started.
Italy’s Matteo Berrettini is the highest seed in the bottom half of the draw yet to get underway. He will be
looking to continue the form that saw him win the title at Queen’s prior to coming here this year as he takes
on Argentina’s Guido Pella in the first match on Court 3 today.
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2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notesNO. 1 NOVAK DJOKOVIC (SRB) v KEVIN ANDERSON (RSA)
Head-to-head: Djokovic leads 9-2
2008 AMS Miami Hard (O) R64 Anderson 76(1) 36 64
2011 Miami-1000 Hard (O) QF Djokovic 64 62
2011 Madrid-1000 Clay (O) R32 Djokovic 63 64
2011 Wimbledon Grass (O) R64 Djokovic 63 64 62
2012 Indian Wells-1000 Hard (O) R32 Djokovic 62 63
2015 Wimbledon Grass (O) R16 Djokovic 67(6) 67(6) 61 64 75
2018 Wimbledon Grass (O) FR Djokovic 62 62 76(3)
2018 Laver Cup Hard (I) QF Anderson 76(5) 57 [10-6]
2018 Shanghai-1000 Hard(O) QF Djokovic 76(1) 63
2018 ATP Finals Hard (I) SF Djokovic 62 62
2020 ATP Cup Hard (O) R2 Djokovic 76(5) 76(6)
This is Djokovic and Anderson’s 4th Wimbledon meeting and their first since the 2018 final.
Djokovic won the pair’s first Wimbledon meeting in straight sets in the 2nd round in 2011, but was forced to recover
from 0-2 down for the 4th time in his career in the pair’s round of 16 meeting here in 2015. Djokovic eventually
won in 5 sets and went on to defeat Roger Federer in the final that year. Djokovic claimed his 4th Wimbledon title
by defeating Anderson in the final in 2018.
Djokovic has never lost at Wimbledon to a player ranked as low as No. 102 Anderson. He has lost a Grand Slam
match to a player ranked as low as Anderson on one previous occasion – to No. 117 Denis Istomin in the 2nd
round at the 2017 Australian Open.
DJOKOVIC v ANDERSON
34 Age 35
1 ATP Ranking (28 June) 102
84 Titles 6
311-45 Career Grand Slam Record 75-45
73-10 Wimbledon Record 21-11
962-195 Career Record 345-240
96-18 Career Record - Grass 40-27
28-3 2021 Record 5-5
1-0 2021 Record - Grass 1-0
35-10 Career Five-Set Record 16-11
6 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 3
269-149 Career Tiebreak Record 207-172
7-8 2021 Tiebreak Record 4-6
• Two-time defending champion DJOKOVIC is bidding to reach the 3rd round here for the 15th time. This is his
16th consecutive Wimbledon appearance and his 65th Grand Slam overall.
• Djokovic is bidding to reach the 3rd round here for the 12th consecutive year and extend his lead in 2nd place for
most consecutive 3rd round appearances at Wimbledon in the Open Era. Jimmy Connors is at the top of the
list, having reached the 3rd round here on 14 straight occasions in 1972-85.
• Djokovic has lost in the 2nd round at Wimbledon on one previous occasion – in 2008, when he fell to Marat
Safin. It was his earliest exit here.
• Djokovic advanced to the 2nd round here after defeating wild card Jack Draper 46 61 62 62 in the 1st round on
Monday.
• At 2019 Wimbledon, Djokovic won his 5th title here, defeating Roger Federer 76(5) 16 76(4) 46 13-12(3) in the
final. It was the first men's singles match to be decided with a final set tiebreak and, at 4 hours 55 minutes, it was
the longest Wimbledon men's singles final on record. He saved 2 championship points during the final set, making
him the first man to win the Wimbledon title from championship point down since Bob Falkenburg in 1948. He was
also the first man to win the Wimbledon title having saved a match point at any stage of the tournament since
Neale Fraser in 1960, who saved 5 match points in the quarterfinals.
• Djokovic is bidding to win his 6th Wimbledon title and claim sole ownership of 4th place on the all-time list for
the most Wimbledon men’s singles titles won, ahead of Bjorn Borg and Laurie Doherty. Federer (8 Wimbledon
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notestitles), William Renshaw and Pete Sampras (both 7) are the only men to have won more Wimbledon singles titles
than Djokovic.
• Djokovic is also bidding to win his 3rd consecutive Wimbledon title and become the 4th man in the Open Era
to record a streak of 3 consecutive Wimbledon titles – after Federer, Bjorn Borg and Sampras. It would be the 3rd
time in his career that he has recorded a streak of 3 consecutive titles at a Grand Slam event – he has won 3
consecutive Australian Open titles on 2 occasions, in 2013-15 and 2019-21.
• Djokovic is bidding to win his 20th Grand Slam title and equal Federer and Rafael Nadal’s record for most Grand
Slam men’s singles titles.
• Djokovic is bidding to become the 5th man in history to win the first 3 Grand Slam tournaments of the season
– after Jack Crawford (1933), Don Budge (1938), Lew Hoad (1956) and Rod Laver (1962 and 1969). Of the 4
men who have previously won the opening 3 Grand Slam tournaments of the season, 2 (Budge and Laver) have
gone on to win the Grand Slam, with Laver doing so in both 1962 and 1969.
• Djokovic is also bidding to become the 12th man in history to win back-to-back Roland Garros and
Wimbledon titles – and the first since Nadal achieved the feat for the 2nd time in 2010.
• Djokovic won his 9th Australian Open title in February this year, defeating Daniil Medvedev in the final. He
became the 2nd player to win 9 singles titles at a Grand Slam tournament after Nadal (13 Roland Garros titles)
and Margaret Court (9 Australian Championships/Open titles).
• Djokovic also won his 2nd Roland Garros title in June this year, becoming the 3rd man in history (after Laver
and Roy Emerson) to win all 4 Grand Slam tournaments twice. He recovered from 0-2 down to defeat Stefanos
Tsitsipas in 5 sets in the final. Having also recovered from 0-2 down to defeat Lorenzo Musetti in the round of 16,
it was the first time that a Grand Slam champion had recovered from 0-2 down twice en route to winning the title
since Ted Schroeder at 1949 Wimbledon. He defeated Nadal in the semifinals – it was Djokovic’s 2nd victory
against Nadal at Roland Garros and just Nadal’s 3rd defeat at Roland Garros.
• Djokovic is bidding to record his 312th Grand Slam match-win. By defeating Milos Raonic in the round of 16 at
the Australian Open this year, he became the 2nd player to record 300 men’s singles match-wins at the Grand
Slams, after Federer.
• Also in 2021, Djokovic won the title at Belgrade II the week before Roland Garros, defeating Alex Molcan in the
final. He became the first man to win a Grand Slam title having won a Tour-level event the week before since
Patrick Rafter won back-to-back titles at Long Island and the US Open in 1998. He also reached the final at Rome-
1000 (l. Nadal), the semifinals at Belgrade I (l. Aslan Karatsev) and the 3rd round at Monte Carlo-1000 (l. Daniel
Evans).
• Djokovic did not contest the singles at a grass court event prior to coming here. He is one of just 7 men in
the Open Era to have won the title here without playing a warm-up event on grass, achieving the feat in 2011,
2014-15 and 2019. He did compete in doubles at Mallorca, where he and Carlos Gomez-Herrera reached the
final before giving a walkover to Simone Boelli/Maximo Gonzalez due to Gomez-Herrera’s right ankle injury.
• Djokovic has a 9-1 win-loss record in 5-set matches at Wimbledon, with his only defeat in a 5-set match coming
against Mario Ancic in the round of 16 in 2006. He has a 35-10 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• By defeating Musetti and Tsitsipas in 5 sets at Roland Garros this year, Djokovic claimed sole ownership of the
all-time record for most 5-set matches won at the Grand Slams, ahead of Federer.
Most 5-set matches won at the Grand Slams (all-time)
Player 5-set match win-loss
Novak Djokovic 32-9
Roger Federer 30-17
Pete Sampras 29-9
Marin Cilic 27-12
Lleyton Hewitt 26-19
• Of Djokovic’s 84 Tour-level singles titles, 6 have come on grass – in addition to his 5 Wimbledon titles, he also
won the title on grass at 2017 Eastbourne (d. Gael Monfils). He has won 61 titles on hard courts and 17 titles on
clay.
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notes• Djokovic has held the world No. 1 ranking for a total of 326 weeks (including this week) and holds the record for
most weeks ranked No. 1, having surpassed Federer’s mark of 310 weeks as world No. 1 on 8 March 2021.
Djokovic is guaranteed to remain at No. 1 unless Medvedev wins the title or Medvedev reaches final and Djokovic
loses prior to the final.
• Djokovic has played Davis Cup for Serbia since 2004, has a 37-11 win-loss record in the competition and led
Serbia to their only title in the competition to date in 2010. He won all 3 singles matches he contested as Serbia
reached the quarterfinals last year (l. Russia). Serbia will compete alongside Germany and Austria in Group F the
2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Djokovic is coached by Marian Vajda and 2001 Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic.
• 2018 runner-up ANDERSON is bidding to reach the 3rd round here for the 7th time. This is his 12th Wimbledon
appearance and his 46th Grand Slam overall.
• Anderson advanced to the 2nd round here after defeating qualifier Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera 67(4) 64 64 76(4)
in the 1st round here on Monday.
• At 2019 Wimbledon, Anderson reached the 3rd round (l. Guido Pella).
• Anderson reached his 2nd Grand Slam final here in 2018, falling to Djokovic in straight sets. His victory in the
semifinals against John Isner was the 2nd-longest singles match in history, winning 76(6) 67(5) 67(9) 64 26-24 in
6 hours 36 minutes. He also reached the final at the 2017 US Open (l. Rafael Nadal), where he became the first
South African to reach a Grand Slam singles final since Kevin Curren at the 1984 Australian Open and the oldest
first-time finalist at a major since Niki Pilic at 1973 Roland Garros.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Anderson fell in the 1st round at both the Australian Open (l. Matteo Berrettini)
and Roland Garros (l. Soonwoo Kwon).
• Anderson did not contest a Tour-level grass event prior to coming here. He reached the quarterfinals at the
Nottingham Challenger I (GBR) (l. Marius Copil) – his first appearance at Challenger level since 2010 – and fell
in the 1st round at both the Nottingham Challenger II (GBR) (l. Denis Kudla) and qualifying at Eastbourne (l. Max
Purcell).
• Anderson’s best result in 2021 is reaching the quarterfinals at Estoril (l. Marin Cilic). He also reached the 3rd
round at Great Ocean Road in Melbourne (l. Karen Khachanov) but fell in the 1st round at the other Tour-level
events he contested – at the Australian Open, Roland Garros and Miami-1000 (l. Damir Dzumhur).
• Anderson is bidding to defeat a world No. 1 for the first time on his 6th attempt. 3 of his 5 defeats to No. 1
ranked players have come against Djokovic including in the round of 16 here in 2015. The highest-ranked player
that Anderson has defeated at any level is No. 2 Roger Federer in the quarterfinals here in 2018.
• Anderson has won 6 of his last 7 five-set matches. His only defeat in a 5-set match in that time came against
Taylor Fritz in the 2nd round at the Australian Open last year. He has a 4-4 win-loss record in 5-set matches at
Wimbledon and a 16-11 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Anderson reached a career-high ranking of No. 5 after reaching the final here in 2018. He has struggled with
injuries over the last 2 seasons, undergoing right knee surgeries in September 2019 and February 2020. He fell
to No. 147 in January last year – his lowest ranking since he was No. 148 in January 2010. He plays here at No.
102.
• Anderson received travel grants from the Grand Slam Development Fund to play junior events in 2004.
• Anderson is coached by Diego Moyano and Jay Bosworth.
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notesNO. 5 ANDREY RUBLEV (RUS) v LLOYD HARRIS (RSA)
head-to-head: Evans leads 1-0
2020 Adelaide Hard (O) FR Rublev 63 60
A 2nd meeting for the pair who previously met at 2020 Adelaide when Rublev won his 4th Tour-level singles title
by defeating Harris in the final.
RUBLEV v HARRIS
23 Age 24
7 ATP Ranking (28 June) 51
9 Titles 0
28-15 Career Grand Slam Record 7-10
3-2 Wimbledon Record 1-1
166-99 Career Record 46-43
9-4 Career Record - Grass 4-4
34-10 2021 Record 15-12
5-1 2021 Record - Grass 4-3
7-5 Career Five-Set Record 2-0
1 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 0
52-61 Career Tiebreak Record 19-27
10-9 2021 Tiebreak Record 7-8
• RUBLEV is bidding to reach the 3rd round here for the first time. This is his 3rd Wimbledon appearance and his
16th Grand Slam overall.
• Rublev advanced to the 2nd round here – and equalled his best Wimbledon performance – after defeating
Federico Delbonis 46 64 61 62 in the 1st round on Monday. Rublev also reached the 2nd round on his 2 previous
appearances here – as a qualifier on his debut here in 2017 (d. Stefano Travaglia, l. Albert Ramos-Vinolas) and
in 2019 (d. Cristian Garin, l. Sam Querrey).
• At 23 years 264 days, Rublev is bidding to become the youngest Grand Slam men’s singles champion since
Djokovic won the title at the 2011 Australian Open aged 23 years 253 days. He would also become the youngest
Wimbledon men’s singles champion since Nadal won the title here in 2008 aged 22 years 33 days. (NB ages
calculated at the end of the tournament)
• Rublev’s best Grand Slam performance is reaching the quarterfinals on 4 occasions – at the US Open in 2017
(l. Rafael Nadal) and 2020 (l. Daniil Medvedev), at 2020 Roland Garros (l. Stefanos Tsitsipas), and at the
Australian Open this year (l. Medvedev).
• Also in Grand Slam play this year, Rublev fell to Jan-Lennard Struff in 5 sets in the 1st round at Roland
Garros. He has a 1-1 win-loss record in 5-set matches at Wimbledon and a 3-4 win-loss record in 5-set matches
at Tour-level overall.
• Prior to coming here, Rublev reached his first Tour-level final on grass at Halle, falling to Ugo Humbert in
straight sets. He is contesting his 5th Tour-level event on grass here this year – in addition to his appearances at
Halle this year and at Wimbledon in 2017 and 2019, he also reached the quarterfinals as a wild card at Halle in
2017 (l. Karen Khachanov).
• Rublev’s best result in 2021 is winning the title at Rotterdam (d. Marton Fucsovics). He also reached his first
Masters-1000 final at Monte Carlo-1000 (l. Tsitsipas), and reached the semifinals at Doha (l. Roberto
Bautista Agut), Dubai (l. Aslan Karatsev) and Miami-1000 (l. Hubert Hurkacz) and the quarterfinals at Barcelona
(l. Jannik Sinner) and Rome-1000 (l. Lorenzo Sonego).
• Rublev is bidding to record his 35th Tour-level match win of 2021. He is in 2nd place on the list for most Tour-
level match-wins in 2021, behind Tsitsipas (39-10).
• Rublev has won 8 Tour-level singles titles, including his victory at Rotterdam this year. He won 5 titles in 2020,
more than any other player on Tour – at Doha (d. Corentin Moutet), Adelaide (d. Lloyd Harris), Hamburg
(d. Tsitsipas), St Petersburg (d. Borna Coric) and Vienna (d. Sonego).
• Rublev broke the Top 10 for the first time in October last year and finished the season ranked at No. 8. He
reached a career-high ranking of No. 7 in April this year and plays here at the same ranking.
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notes• Rublev is a former junior world No. 1 having topped the boys’ rankings for the first time in June 2014 after
winning the boys’ singles title at 2014 Roland Garros (d. Jaume Munar). He also won two medals at the Youth
Olympic Tennis Event in Nanjing later that year, winning boys’ singles bronze and boys’ doubles silver
with Khachanov. He was named 2014 ITF Junior World Champion. He reached the 3rd round on his only
appearance in the boys’ singles here in 2014 (l. Tim van Rijthoven).
• Rublev has played Davis Cup since 2014 and has a 14-9 win-loss record in the competition. He won all 4 singles
matches he contested at the 2019 Davis Cup Finals in Madrid. The Russian Tennis Federation team will compete
alongside Spain and Ecuador in Group A at the 2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Rublev is coached by Fernando Vicente.
• HARRIS is bidding to reach the 3rd round here for the first time and equal his best Grand Slam performance. This
is his 2nd Wimbledon appearance and his 11th Grand Slam overall.
• Harris advanced to the 2nd round after defeating Ricardas Berankis 63 64 76(6) for his first Wimbledon match-
win in the 1st round.
• At 2019 Wimbledon, on his debut here, Harris fell in the 1st round to Roger Federer.
• Harris’s best Grand Slam performance is reaching the 3rd round at this year’s Australian Open, when he
defeated Mikael Torpegaard and Alexei Popyrin before falling to Mackenzie McDonald.
• Elsewhere in Grand Slam play this year, Harris reached the 2nd round at Roland Garros (d. Lorenzo Sonego,
l. Cameron Norrie).
• Prior to coming here, Harris reached the quarterfinals at Halle (l. Nikoloz Basilashvili) and the 2nd round at
Stuttgart (d. Gilles Simon, l. Felix Auger-Aliassime), but fell in the 1st round at Mallorca (l. Corentin Moutet).
• Harris’ best result in 2021 is reaching his 2nd Tour-level final as a qualifier at Dubai (l. Aslan Karatsev). He also
reached the 2nd round at Doha (d. Stan Wawrinka, l. Marton Fucsovics), Miami-1000 (d. Emilio Nava, l. Roberto
Bautista Agut) and Madrid-1000 (d. Grigor Dimitrov, l. Alex de Minaur).
• Harris has won both 5-set matches he has contested – defeating Lukas Rosol in the 1st round at 2019 Roland
Garros and Popyrin in the 2nd round at this year’s Australian Open.
• Harris is bidding to defeat a Top 10 player at the Grand Slams for the first time on his 4th attempt. He has lost
all 3 of his previous Grand Slam matches against Top 10 players, including one defeat to a Top 10 player here –
against No. 3 Roger Federer in the 1st round in 2019. He has a 1-4 win-loss record against Top 10 players at
Tour-level overall, with his only victory against a Top 10 player at Tour-level came against No. 4 Dominic Thiem
in the 2nd round at Dubai this year.
• Harris reached a career-high ranking of No. 50 in April this year. He plays here one place lower at No. 51.
• Harris has played Davis Cup for South Africa since 2016 and has a 12-5 win-loss record in the competition. South
Africa will next play away to Venezuela in a World Group II tie in September this year.
• Harris was a recipient of International Player Grand Slam Grants, financed by the Grand Slam Development Fund,
in both 2017 and 2018.
• Harris is coached by Anthony Harris (no relation).
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notesNO. 7 MATTEO BERRETTINI (ITA) v GUIDO PELLA (ARG)
Head-to-head: first meeting
Berrettini has lost the 2 of his 3 meetings with lefthanded opposition at the Grand Slams, with his only victory
against a lefthanded player at a Grand Slam coming against Ugo Humbert in the 2nd round at the US Open last
year. He has never previously faced a lefthanded player at Wimbledon. He has a 7-4 win-loss record against
lefthanders at Tour-level overall.
BERRETTINI v PELLA
25 Age 31
9 ATP Ranking (28 June) 59
5 Titles 1
24-12 Career Grand Slam Record 19-26
4-2 Wimbledon Record 6-4
97-57 Career Record 114-132
18-5 Career Record - Grass 8-13
26-6 2021 Record 3-12
5-0 2021 Record - Grass 0-3
3-1 Career Five-Set Record 6-6
1 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 3
49-38 Career Tiebreak Record 65-70
12-4 2021 Tiebreak Record 4-4
• BERRETTINI is bidding to maintain his record of always reaching the 2nd round here. This is his 3rd Wimbledon
appearance and his 14th Grand Slam overall.
• At 2019 Wimbledon, Berrettini recorded his best Wimbledon performance by reaching the round of 16. He
became the 5th Italian man to reach the round of 16 at Wimbledon in the Open Era – after Adriano Panatta (1979),
Davide Sanguinetti (1998), Gianluca Pozzi (2000) and Andreas Seppi (2013).
• Berrettini’s best Grand Slam performance is reaching the semifinals at the 2019 US Open (l. Rafael Nadal),
where he became the 4th Italian man in the Open Era to reach a Grand Slam semifinal – after Panatta (1973,
1975, 1976 Roland Garros), Corrado Barazzutti (1977 US Open, 1978 Roland Garros) and Marco Cecchinato
(2018 Roland Garros).
• In Grand Slam play this year, Berrettini reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros (l. Novak Djokovic) and the
round of 16 at the Australian Open, where he gave a walkover to Stefanos Tsitsipas due to an abdominal injury.
By reaching at least the round of 16 at both Grand Slam events this year, he became the first Italian man in history
to reach the round of 16 at all 4 Grand Slam tournaments.
• Prior to coming here, Berrettini won the title at Queen’s, defeating Cameron Norrie in the final. He became the
first Italian player to win the title at Queen’s and the first player to win the title at Queen's on his debut at the event
since Boris Becker in 1985. It was his 2nd Tour-level title on grass, having also won the title at 2019 Stuttgart.
• Berrettini’s other highlights in 2021 are winning the title at Belgrade I (d. Aslan Karatsev) and reaching his first
Masters-1000 final at Madrid-1000 (l. Alexander Zverev). He also reached the quarterfinals at Antalya
(l. Alexander Bublik) and won 3 of the 4 singles matches he contested as Italy reached the final at the ATP Cup,
falling to Russia’s Daniil Medvedev in the final.
• Berrettini is one of 10 Italian men competing here this year – the highest-number of Italian players to compete in
the men’s singles at Wimbledon in the Open Era. He is also one of 4 Italian seeds – Italy has the joint-highest
number of seeded players in the men’s draw here this year, along with Russia.
• Berrettini’s has won the 3 of the 4 five-set matches he has contested – including both 5-set matches he has
contested at Wimbledon, defeating Jack Sock in the 1st round in 2018 and Diego Schwartzman in the 3rd round
in 2019. His only defeat in a 5-set match came against Tennys Sandgren in the 2nd round at the 2020 Australian
Open.
• Berrettini has won 5 Tour-level singles titles. In addition to his victories at Belgrade I and Queen’s this year and
at 2019 Stuttgart, he also won the titles at 2018 Gstaad (d. Roberto Bautista Agut) and 2019 Budapest (d. Filip
Krajinovic).
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notes• Berrettini reached a career-high ranking of No. 8 in November 2019, becoming the highest-ranked Italian man
since No. 8 Barazzutti in 1978. He plays here one place lower at No. 9.
• Berrettini made his Davis Cup debut in February 2019 during Italy’s victory against India in the Qualifiers. He also
competed in the 2019 Davis Cup Finals in Madrid, losing both singles matches he contested, falling to Denis
Shapovalov and Taylor Fritz. He has a 2-3 overall win-loss record in the competition. Italy will compete alongside
USA and Colombia in Group E at the 2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Berrettini is coached by Vincenzo Santopadre, Marco Gulisano and Umberto Rianna.
• PELLA is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 3rd time. This is his 5th Wimbledon appearance and his
27th Grand Slam appearance overall.
• Pella recorded his best Grand Slam result by reaching the quarterfinals here in 2019. He defeated Marius Copil,
Andreas Seppi, No. 4 seed Kevin Anderson and No. 15 seed Milos Raonic before falling to No. 23 seed Roberto
Bautista Agut in the last 8.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Pella reached the 2nd round at Roland Garros (d. Daniel Elahi Galan, l. Marcos
Giron) but fell to Borna Coric in the 1st round at the Australian Open.
• Pella is bidding to record his 4th Tour-level match-win this year. His only Tour-level match-wins in 2021 came
at the ATP Cup where he won one of the 2 singles matches he contested, and in 2nd round finishes at Munich,
when Egor Gerasmiov retired due to a headache while trailing Pella in 1st round before Pella retired due to a right
leg injury in the 2nd set of his 2nd round match against John Millman, and at Roland Garros.
• Prior to coming here, Pella fell in the 1st round at Stuttgart (l. Jordan Thompson), Halle (l. Lukas Lacko) and
Mallorca (l. Stefano Travaglia).
• Pella’s best results on grass are reaching the quarterfinals here in 2019 and at 2018 Stuttgart (l. Roger Federer).
He has lost his opening match at 10 of the 13 Tour-level grass court events he has contested.
• Pella is bidding to record his 3rd consecutive win against Top 10 opposition at a Grand Slam having defeated
No. 5 Marin Cilic in the 2nd round here in 2018 and No. 8 Kevin Anderson in the 3rd round here in 2019 in his 2
most recent meetings with Top 10 opposition at the majors. He has a 2-5 win-loss record against Top 10 opposition
at the Grand Slams and a 4-14 win-loss record against Top 10 opponents at Tour-level overall.
• Pella has won 3 of the 4 five-set matches he has contested at Wimbledon – including 2 successful comebacks
from 0-2 down, against Cilic in the 2nd round in 2018 and Raonic in the round of 16 in 2019. He has a 6-6 win-
loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Pella reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 in August 2019. He plays here at No. 59
• Pella has played Davis Cup for Argentina since 2016 and has a 7-6 overall win-loss record in the competition.
He won 2 of the 3 matches he contested as Argentina reached the quarterfinals at the Davis Cup Finals in Madrid
in 2019. Argentina will next play at home to Belarus in a World Group I tie in September 2021.
• Pella is coached by Jose Acasuso and Kevin Konfederak.
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notesNO. 8 ROBERTO BAUTISTA AGUT (ESP) v MIOMIR KECMANOVIC (SRB)
Head-to-head: Bautista Agut leads 2-0
2019 Cincinnati-1000 Hard (O) R16 Bautista Agut 61 62
2020 US Open Hard (O) R64 Bautista Agut 63 36 63 64
A 3rd meeting for the pair, their 2nd at a Grand Slam, but their first on grass.
Bautista Agut has not lost a Grand Slam match to a player ranked as low as No. 49 Kecmanovic at Wimbledon.
He has lost to a player ranked as low as Kecmanovic on grass on 4 occasions at Tour-level overall, most recently
against No. 60 Sam Querrey in the quarterfinals at Mallorca this year.
BAUTISTA AGUT v KECMANOVIC
33 Age 21
10 ATP Ranking 49
9 Titles 1
63-33 Career Grand Slam Record 7-9
16-6 Wimbledon Record 2-1
328-195 Career Record 52-50
33-15 Career Record - Grass 7-5
21-15 2021 Record 11-14
2-2 2021 Record - Grass 1-1
11-8 Career Five-Set Record 2-2
1 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 0
107-103 Career Tiebreak Record 20-25
6-9 2021 Tiebreak Record 6-5
• BAUTISTA AGUT is bidding to reach the 3rd round here for the 6th time. This is his 7th Wimbledon appearance
and his 34th Grand Slam overall.
• Bautista Agut advanced to the 2nd round here after defeating John Millman 62 36 63 76(4) in the 1st round on
Monday.
• At 2019 Wimbledon, Bautista Agut recorded his best Grand Slam performance by reaching the semifinals,
where he fell to No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic in 4 sets. He became the 6th Spanish man in history to reach
the semifinals at Wimbledon.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Bautista Agut reached the 2nd round at Roland Garros (d. Mario Vilella Martinez,
l. Henri Laaksonen), but fell to Radu Albot in the 1st round at the Australian Open.
• Bautista Agut’s best results in 2021 are finishing runner-up at both Montpellier (l. David Goffin) and Doha (l.
Nikoloz Basilashvili). He also reached the semifinals at Miami-1000 (l. Jannik Sinner).
• Prior to coming here, Bautista Agut reached the quarterfinals at Mallorca after receiving a bye through the 1st
round (d. Stefano Travaglia, l. Sam Querrey), but fell to Sebastian Korda in the 1st round at Halle.
• Bautista Agut has won one Tour-level title on grass – at 2014 ’s-Hertogenbosch where he defeated Benjamin
Becker in the final. He has won 9 Tour-level singles titles, most recently at 2019 Doha.
• Bautista Agut has lost the last 3 five-set matches he has contested, having not recorded a victory in a 5-set match
since defeating Marin Cilic in 5 sets in the round of 16 at the 2019 Australian Open. He won the only 5-set match
he has contested at Wimbledon – recovering from 0-2 down to defeat Benoit Paire in the 2nd round in 2015 – and
has an 11-8 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Bautista Agut broke the Top 10 for the first time in August 2019 and reached a career-high ranking of No. 9 in
November that year. He plays here one place lower at No. 10.
• Bautista Agut has played Davis Cup for Spain since 2014 and has an 8-6 win-loss record in the competition. He
won 2 of the 3 matches he contested at the 2019 Finals – including defeating Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime in
the first match of the final – as Spain won the Davis Cup title for the 6th time. Spain will compete alongside the
Russian Tennis Federation team and Ecuador in Group A at the 2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Bautista Agut is coached by Pepe Vendrell.
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notes• KECMANOVIC is bidding to reach the 3rd round here for the 1st time and record his best Grand Slam result. This
is his 2nd appearance at Wimbledon and his 10th Grand Slam appearance overall.
• Kecmanovic advanced to the 2nd round here after defeating Facundo Bagnis 64 36 63 76(1) in the 1st round on
Monday.
• At 2019 Wimbledon, on his debut here, Kecmanovic reached the 2nd round, defeating Roberto Carballes Baena
in the 1st round before withdrawing from his 2nd round match agaist Benoit Paire due to a right ankle injury while
trailing 67(5) 46.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Kecmanovic equalled his best Grand Slam result by reaching the 2nd round at
both the Australian Open (d. Kamil Majchrzak, l. Adrian Mannarino) and Roland Garros (d. Daniel Evans, Laslo
Djere). He has reached the 2nd round at the Grand Slams on 3 other occasions – at 2019 Roland Garros (d.
Denis Kulda, l. David Goffin), and at the US Open in both 2019 (d. Djere, l. Paolo Lorenzi) and 2020 (d.
Gianluca Mager, l. Bautista Agut).
• Kecmanovic’s best result in 2021 is reaching the semifinals at Buenos Aires (l. Diego Schwartzman. He also
reached the quarterfinals at Great Ocean Road in Melbourne (l. Jannik Sinner) and Belgrade (l. Novak Djokovic).
• Prior to coming here, Kecmanovic fell to Ugo Humbert in the 1st round at Mallorca.
• Kecmanovic’s best Tour-level result on grass is reaching the final at 2019 Antalya (l. Lorenzo Sonego).
• Kecmanovic is bidding to defeat a Top 10 player for the 2nd time on his 7th attempt. He has a 1-5 win-loss
record against Top 10 opposition, with his only victory against a Top 10 opponent coming against No. 6 Alexander
Zverev in the 2nd round at 2019 Cincinnati-1000. He is competing against a Top 10 opponent at a Grand Slam
for the first time today.
• Kecmanovic has lost the only 5-set match he has contested this year, against Djere in the 2nd round at Roland
Garros. He has a 2-2 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Kecmanovic has won one Tour-level title – on clay at 2020 Kitzbuhel (d. Yannick Hanfmann).
• Kecmanovic reached a career-high ranking of No. 38 in March this year. He plays here at No. 49.
• Kecmanovic is a former junior world No. 1. He became the first player to win back-to-back titles at the Orange
Bowl since Billy Martin in 1973-74, winning the title in both 2015 (d. Stefanos Tsitsipas) and 2016 (d. Wu Yibing).
He also reached the final at the 2016 US Open (l. Felix Auger-Aliassime) and was named ITF Junior World
Champion that year. He reached the boys’ singles semifinals at Roland Garros in the last junior event he
contested in 2017 (l. Nicola Kuhn).
• Kecmanovic is coached by David Nalbandian, who reached the quarterfinals here in 2005.
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notesNO. 9 DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN (ARG) v (WC) LIAM BROADY (GBR)
Head-to-head: first meeting
Schwartzman won his only previous match against a wild card at Wimbledon – defeating Dominik Koepfer in the
2nd round here in 2019. He has a 2-1 win-loss record against wild cards at the Grand Slams and a 14-7 win-loss
record against wild cards at Tour-level overall.
Schwartzman has won just 2 of his 9 matches against lefthanders at the Grand Slams, with his only victories
coming against Federico Delbonis in the 1st round at the 2018 US Open and Koepfer in the 2nd round here in
2019. He has a 39-25 win-loss record against lefthanders at Tour-level overall.
Schwartzman has not lost a Grand Slam match to a player ranked as low as No. 143 Broady. The lowest-ranked
player he has lost to at a Grand Slam is No. 142 Juan Martin del Potro in the 1st round at the 2016 US Open. The
lowest-ranked player he has lost to here is No. 98 Robin Haase in the 1st round in 2016.
Schwartzman is facing a British player at Wimbledon for the first time. He has a 2-2 win-loss record against players
at their home Grand Slams with a 1-1 win-loss record against Frenchmen at Roland Garros, he won his only
meeting with an American at the US Open and lost his only previous meeting with an Australian at the Australian
Open.
Schwartzman has won just one of his previous 5 matches against British players at Tour-level. His only victory in
that time came against Kyle Edmund in the 2nd round at 2019 Monte Carlo-1000. He has a 3-5 win-loss record
against British players at Tour-level overall. Schwartzman has a 2-2 win-loss record against players at their home
Grand Slams.
SCHWARTZMAN v BROADY
28 Age 27
11 ATP Ranking 143
4 Titles 0
44-27 Career Grand Slam Record 2-4
4-5 Wimbledon Record 2-3
185-154 Career Record 7-14
6-10 Career Record - Grass 3-8
17-11 2021 Record 3-4
1-0 2021 Record - Grass 2-2
6-5 Career Five-Set Record 1-0
1 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 1
49-57 Career Tiebreak Record 3-3
2-1 2021 Tiebreak Record 2-0
• SCHWARTZMAN is bidding to reach the 3rd round here for the 2nd time and equal his best Wimbledon
performance. This is his 6th Wimbledon appearance and his 28th Grand Slam overall.
• Schwartzman advanced to the 2nd round here after defeating Benoit Paire 63 64 60 in the 1st round on Tuesday.
• At 2019 Wimbledon, Schwartzman recorded his best Wimbledon performance by reaching the 3rd round. He
defeated Matthew Ebden and Dominik Koepfer in the opening 2 rounds before falling to Matteo Berrettini in 5
sets. He has lost both 5-set matches he has contested at Wimbledon and has a 6-5 win-loss record in 5-set
matches overall.
• Schwartzman’s best Grand Slam performance is reaching the semifinals at Roland Garros last year, falling to
eventual champion Rafael Nadal in straight sets.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Schwartzman reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros (l. Nadal) and the 3rd
round at the Australian Open (l. Aslan Karatsev).
• Schwartzman’s best result in 2021 is winning the title on clay at Buenos Aires (d. Francisco Cerundolo), where
he became the first Argentinian champion at the event since David Nalbandian in 2008. It was also his first Tour-
level title on home soil.
• Schwartzman’s other highlights this year are reaching the quarterfinals at Cordoba (l. Albert Ramos-Vinolas),
Barcelona (l. Pablo Carreno Busta) and Roland Garros and the round of 16 at Miami-1000 (l. Sebastian Korda).
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notes• Scwartzman did not contest a grass court event prior to coming here. Just 7 men in the Open Era have won
the title here without playing a warm-up event on grass – most recently Novak Djokovic in 2011, 2014-15 and
2019.
• Schwartzman broke the Top 10 for the first time after reaching the semifinals at Roland Garros in October last
year, rising to a career-high ranking of No. 8. He plays here 3 places lower at No. 11.
• Schwartzman has won 4 Tour-level singles titles. In addition to his victory at Buenos Aires this year, he also
won the titles on clay at 2016 Istanbul (d. Grigor Dimitrov), 2018 Rio de Janeiro (d. Fernando Verdasco) and
2019 Los Cabos (d. Taylor Fritz).
• Schwartzman has played Davis Cup for Argentina since 2015 and has a 5-6 overall win-loss record in the
competition. He won one of the 3 matches he contested as Argentina reached the quarterfinals at the 2019 Davis
Cup Finals in Madrid. Argentina will next play at home to Belarus in a World Group I tie in September 2021.
• Schwartzman is coached by former world No. 15 Juan Ignacio Chela and Alejandro Fabbri.
• Wild card BROADY is bidding to reach the 3rd round here for the first time and record his best Grand Slam result.
This is his 4th Wimbledon appearance and his 5th Grand Slam overall.
• Broady advanced to the 2nd round here and equalled his best Grand Slam performance after defeating Marco
Cecchinato 63 64 60 in the 1st round on Monday. He also reached the 2nd round on his Grand Slam debut as a
wild card here in 2015. He recovered from 0-2 to defeat Marinko Matosevic in his only Tour-level 5-set match to
date in the 1st round before losing to David Goffin in straight sets in the 2nd round.
• At 2019 Wimbledon, as a wild card at qualifying, Broady fell to Gregoire Barrere in 5 sets in the final round of
qualifying. On his last main draw appearance here, as a wild card in 2018, he fell to Milos Raonic in straight sets
in the 1st round.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Broady reached the 2nd round of qualifying at Roland Garros (d. Jason Jung, l.
Roman Safiullin) but fell in the 1st round of qualifying at the Australian Open (l. Constant Lestienne). He has
successfully qualified at a Grand Slam once in 13 attempts – at 2020 Roland Garros, when he came through
qualifying before falling to Jiri Vesely in the 1st round of the main draw.
• Prior to coming here, Broady reached the 2nd round as a wild card at Eastbourne (d. Frances Tiafoe, l. Alex de
Minaur), but fell to Adrian Mannarino in the 1st round as a wild card at Queen’s. He also competed on grass at
the Nottingham Challenger (GBR), reaching the 2nd round (d. Alex Bolt, l. Denis Kudla).
• Broady is bidding to record his 4th Tour-level match-win of 2021. In addition to his 1st round victory here and
2nd round finish at Eastbourne, he also reached the 2nd round as a qualifier at Sardinia (d. Marc-Andrea Huesler,
l. Jan-Lennard Struff). It was his first Tour-level match-win since reaching the 2nd round as a qualifier at 2018
Miami-1000 (d. Bjorn Fratangelo, l. Filip Krajinovic). Broady also qualified at Miami-1000 this year but fell
to Miomir Kecmanovic in the 1st round of the main draw.
• Broady has reached 2 Challenger finals in 2021 – at Potchefstroom I (RSA) (l. Benjamin Bonzi) and Biella (ITA)
(l. Andreas Seppi). He also reached the semifinals at the Potchefstroom II Challenger (RSA) (l.
Teymuraz Gabashvili) and the Belgrade Challenger (SRB) (l. Roberto Carballes Baena).
• Broady is bidding to defeat a Top 20 player for the 1st time on his 4th attempt. He has lost all 3 of his previous
Tour-level matches against Top 20 players, including 2 defeats to Top 20 players here – against No. 15 David
Goffin in the 2nd round in 2015 and No. 2 Andy Murray in the 1st round in 2016. The highest-ranked player he
has defeated is No. 31 Adrian Mannarino in the 2nd round at 2017 St. Petersburg.
• Broady was one of 18 lefhanders to start this year’s men’s singles main draw. Rafael Nadal is the last
lefthander to win the title here in 2010.
• Broady reached a career-high ranking of No. 137 in April this year. He plays here at No. 143.
• Broady was ranked No. 2 in the ITF junior rankings in 2012. He finished runner-up in the boys’ singles at 2011
Wimbledon (l. Luke Saville) and at the 2012 US Open (l. Filip Peliwo). He also won the 2010 Junior Wimbledon
doubles title with Tom Farquharson and the 2012 Junior Australian Open doubles title with Joshua Ward-Hibbert.
• Broady is coached by David Sammel.
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notesNO. 11 PABLO CARRENO BUSTA (ESP) v SAM QUERREY (USA)
Head-to-head: Carreno Busta leads 1-0
2017 Stockholm Hard (I) QF Carreno Busta 46 61 64
A 2nd meeting for the pair, but their first at a Grand Slam and their 1st on grass.
CARRENO BUSTA v QUERREY
29 Age 33
13 ATP Ranking 60
5 Titles 10
47-29 Career Grand Slam Record 60-55
0-5 Wimbledon Record 23-12
211-174 Career Record 380-312
4-9 Career Record - Grass 74-41
19-18 2021 Record 8-9
2-1 2021 Record - Grass 6-3
6-10 Career Five-Set Record 7-11
2 Comebacks from 0-2 1
91-83 Career Tiebreak Record 196-202
6-1 2021 Tiebreak Record 6-6
• CARRENO BUSTA is bidding to record his 1st Wimbledon match-win. This is his 6th appearance here and his
30th Grand Slam appearance overall.
• At 2019 Wimbledon, Carreno Busta fell in the 1st round (l. Alexei Popyrin). He also fell in the 1st round on his
debut here in 2014 (l. David Ferrer), and in 2015 (Gael Monfils), 2016 (Milos Raonic) and 2018 (l. Radu Albot).
• Carreno Busta’s best Grand Slam result is reaching the semifinals at the US Open on 2 occasions – in 2017 (l.
Kevin Anderson) and 2020 (l. Alexander Zverev).
• In Grand Slam play this year, Carreno Busta reached the round of 16 at Roland Garros (l. Stefanos Tsitsipas).
He also reached the 3rd round at the Australian Open, where he defeated Kei Nishikori and Jiri Vesely before
retiring due to an abdominal injury while trailing Grigor Dimitrov in the 3rd round.
• Carreno Busta’s best result in 2021 is winning the title at Marbella, where as No. 1 seed he
defeated Jaume Munar in the final. He also reached the semifinals at Barcelona (l. Rafael Nadal) and on grass at
Mallorca (l. Daniil Medvedev), the 3rd round at Monte Carlo-1000 (l. Casper Ruud) and the 2nd round at Rome-
1000, where he defeated Laslo Djere before giving a walkover to Kei Nishikori in the 2nd round due to a lower
back injury. He fell in the 1st round at Madrid-1000 (l. Federico Delbonis).
• Carreno Busta has lost the only five-set match he has contested at Wimbledon – he defeated Albot in 5 sets in
the 1st round here in 2018. He has a 6-10 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Carreno Busta has won 5 Tour-level titles – but has never won a grass court title. In addition to his victory at
Marbella this year, he also won the title on clay at 2017 Estoril (d. Gilles Muller). His other 3 titles came on hard
courts at 2016 Winston-Salem (d. Roberto Bautista Agut), 2016 Moscow (d. Fabio Fognini) and 2019 Chengdu (d.
Alexander Bublik).
• Grass is Carreno Busta’s weakest surface and the only surface on which he has a negative win-loss record. He
has a 4-9 win-loss record on grass, compared to 109-87 on hard courts and 98-78 on clay.
• Carreno Busta broke the Top 10, at No. 10, for the first time in his career after reaching the semifinals at the
US Open in September 2017. He plays here at No. 13.
• Carreno Busta made his Davis Cup debut in 2016. He has a 3-5 win-loss record the competition. He was a
member of the Spanish team that won their 6th Davis Cup title last year, but lost the only match he contested
at the Davis Cup Finals, falling to Guido Pella in the first match of Spain’s quarterfinal victory over Argentina. Spain
will compete alongside the Russian Tennis Federation team and Ecuador in Group A at the 2021 Davis Cup
Finals.
• Carreno Busta is coached by Samuel Lopez and Cesar Fagueras.
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notes• QUERREY is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 10th time. This is his 13th Wimbledon appearance and
his 56th Grand Slam appearance overall.
• At 2019 Wimbledon, Querrey reached the quarterfinals, defeating Dominic Thiem, Andrey Rublev, John Millman
and Tennys Sandgren before falling to Rafael Nadal in straight sets.
• Querrey’s best Grand Slam result is reaching the semifinals at 2017 Wimbledon. He defeated No. 1 seed Andy
Murray in the quarterfinals before falling to Marin Cilic in the last 4. By reaching his first Grand Slam semifinal on
his 42nd Grand Slam appearance, he went top of the Open Era list for most attempts before reaching
the semifinals at a major. He was the first American man to reach a Grand Slam semifinal since Andy Roddick at
2009 Wimbledon.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Querrey fell to Lorenzo Sonego in straight sets in the 1st round at the Australian
Open, before falling to John Isner, also in straight sets, in the 1st round at Roland Garros.
• Prior to coming here, Querrey recorded his best result of 2021 by reaching the final on grass at Mallorca (l. Daniil
Medvedev). He also reached the semifinals on grass at Stuttgart (l. Felix Auger-Aliassime), but fell in the 1st round
at Halle (l. Ugo Humbert).
• Prior to reaching the semifinals at Stuttgart, Querrey had recorded just two Tour-level match-wins in 2021. His
only other match-wins at Tour-level this year came in 2nd round finishes at Delray Beach (d. Mackenzie
McDonald, l. Gianluca Mager) and at the Great Ocean Road Open in Melbourne (d. Henri Laaksonen, l. Stefano
Travaglia). He contested just 2 events between the Australian Open and Roland Garros – falling in the 1st round
at both Miami-1000 (l. Yen-Hsun Lu) and Parma (l. Yoshihito Nishioka).
• Querrey has won 10 Tour-level singles titles – including one on grass. He defeated Mardy Fish in the final to
win the title on grass at 2010 Queen’s.
• Querrey has recorded 6 victories over Top 20 opposition at the Grand Slams. Four of those victories have come
here – against No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the 3rd round in 2016, No. 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the 3rd round in 2017,
No. 1 Andy Murray in the quarterfinals in 2017 and No. 4 Dominic Thiem in the 1st round in 2019. He has a 4-8
win-loss record against Top 20 opposition here and a 6-21 win-loss record against Top 20 opposition at the Grand
Slams overall.
• Querrey has won just one of his previous 7 matches against Top 20 opposition at Tour-level. His only victory in
that time came on grass against No. 10 Roberto Bautista Agut in the quarterfinals at Mallorca this year. He has a
47-121 win-loss record against Top 20 opposition at Tour-level overall.
• Wimbledon is Querrey’s most successful Grand Slam in terms of matches won. He has a 23-12 win-loss record
here, compared to 18-14 at the US Open, 14-15 at the Australian Open and 5-14 at Roland Garros.
• Querrey reached a career-high ranking of No. 11 in February 2018. He plays here at No. 54.
• Querrey is coached by Peter Smith.
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notesNO. 12 CASPER RUUD (NOR) v JORDAN THOMPSON (AUS)
Tour-level head-to-head: Ruud leads 2-0
2018 Roland Garros Clay (O) R128 Ruud 61 64 26 46 63
2018 Calgary Challenger (CAN) Hard (I) SF Thompson 67(5) 60 76(4)
2021 Australian Open Hard (O) R128 Ruud 63 63 2-1 RET
Both of Ruud and Thompson’s previous Tour-level meetings have also come at Grand Slams, with Ruud winning
their first meeting at Roland Garros in 5 sets, and also progressing after Thompson retired in the 3rd set in their
1st round match at the Australian Open this year. Thompson won their only previous meeting below Tour-level.
Both Ruud and Thompson are bidding to record their first Wimbledon match-win today.
RUUD v THOMPSON
22 Age 27
14 ATP Ranking 78
2 Titles 0
13-11 Career Grand Slam Record 11-23
0-1 Wimbledon Record 0-4
88-61 Career Record 63-86
2-2 Career Record - Grass 12-16
24-8 2021 Record 10-12
2-1 2021 Record - Grass 4-3
5-3 Career Five-Set Record 2-8
1 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 1
18-30 Career Tiebreak Record 30-41
6-4 2021 Tiebreak Record 8-4
• RUUD is bidding to record his first Wimbledon match-win on his 2nd appearance here. This is his 12th Grand
Slam appearance.
• At Wimbledon in 2019, Ruud fell in the 1st round (l. John Isner). In 2018, Ruud fell in the 1st round of qualifying
here (l. Antoine Hoang).
• Ruud recorded his best Grand Slam result by reaching the round of 16 at the Australian Open this year, where
he defeated Thompson, Tommy Paul and Radu Albot before retiring due to an abdominal injury while trailing
Andrey Rublev 62 76(3) in the last 16. He became the 2nd Norwegian player, man or woman, to reach the round
of 16 at a Grand Slam – after his father, Christian, who reached the last 16 at the 1997 Australian Open.
• Elsewhere in Grand Slam play this year, Ruud reached the 3rd round at Roland Garros, defeating Benoit Paire
and Kamil Majchrzak in the opening 2 rounds, before falling to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in 5-sets. He has a
5-3 win-loss record in 5-set matches and has not contested a 5-set match at Wimbledon.
• Ruud’s best result in 2021 is his 2nd Tour-level singles title at Geneva, where, as No. 3 seed, he defeated Denis
Shapovalov in the final. Both of Ruud’s Tour-level singles titles have come on clay. In addition to his victory at
Geneva this year, he also won the title at 2020 Buenos Aires (d. Pedro Sousa).
• Ruud is bidding to record his 3rd Tour-level match-win on grass in his 5th Tour-level match on the surface. His
previous appearances on grass have come here in 2019 and in a quarterfinal finish at Mallorca prior to coming
here. He defeated Gilles Simon and Tennys Sandgren in the opening 2 rounds – for his first Tour-level match
wins on grass – before falling to Daniil Medvedev in the quarterfinals.
• Rudd broke the Top 20 for the first time in May this year and plays here at a career-high ranking of No. 14.
• Ruud is a former junior No. 1. He reached the No. 1 ranking in January 2016 and is the only Norwegian player
to have held the top junior ranking. He fell in the 2nd round in the boys’ singles here in 2015 and fell in the 1st
round at the boys’ singles in 2016.
• Ruud has played Davis Cup for Norway since 2015 and has a 16-6 overall win-loss record in the competition. He
won his only singles match as Norway defeated Barbados 4-0 in the World Group I Play-offs in March last year.
Norway will host Uzbekistan in a World Group I tie in September.
• Ruud is coached by his father, Christian.
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notes• THOMPSON is bidding to record his first Wimbledon match-win on his 5th appearance here. This is his 24th
Grand Slam appearance overall.
• At Wimbledon in 2019, Thompson lost in the 1st round (l. Nick Kyrgios). He also lost in the 1st round in his
previous 3 appearances here, in 2016 (l. Roberto Bautista Agut), 2017 (l. Albert Ramos-Vinolas) and 2018 (l. Sam
Querrey).
• Thompson’s best Grand Slam result is reaching the round of 16 at the US Open last year. He defeated Stefano
Travaglia, Egor Gerasimov and Mikhail Kukushkin before falling to Borna Coric in straight sets.
• At the Grand Slams in 2021, Thompson retired due to a shoulder injury while trailing 36 36 1-2 against Ruud in
the 1st round at the Australian Open, and also fell in the 1st round at Roland Garros (l. Jaume Munar).
• Thompson warmed up for Wimbledon by reaching the quarterfinals at Mallorca (l. Pablo Carreno Busta), and
the 2nd round at both Stuttgart (d. Guido Pella, l. Alex De Minaur) and Halle (d. Daniel Altmaier, l. Andrey Rublev).
• Thompson’s best result in 2021 is reaching the quarterfinals at Great Ocean Road in Melbourne (l. Thiago
Monteiro). He reached the 2nd round at Miami-1000 (d. Federico Delbonis, l. Milos Raonic) and Monte Carlo-
1000 (d. Benoit Paire, l. Fabio Fognini).
• Thompson’s best Tour-level result on grass is reaching the final at 2019 s’Hertogenbosch where he fell to
Adrian Mannarino in the final. He also reached the semifinals at 2019 Antalya (l. Miomir Kecmanovic).
• Thompson is bidding to record his 2nd Grand Slam match-win against a Top 20 player. He defeated No. 16
Jack Sock in the 1st round at the 2017 US Open and has a 1-6 win-loss record against Top 20 opponents at the
majors. He has a 5-21 win-loss record against Top 20 opposition at Tour-level.
• Thompson lost the only 5-set match he has contested at Wimbledon – falling to Nick Kyrgios in the 1st round
here in 2019. He has a 2-8 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Thompson broke the Top 50 for the first time in June 2019 and reached a career-high ranking of No. 43 the
following month. He plays here at No. 78.
• Thompson made his Davis Cup debut in 2017 and has a 7-4 overall win-loss record in the competition. He
defeated Thiago Monteiro during Australia’s victory over Brazil in last year’s Davis Cup Qualifiers. Australia will
compete alongside Croatia and Hungary in Group D at the 2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Thompson is coached by Jaymon Crabb.
2021 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notesNO. 13 GAEL MONFILS (FRA) v (Q) CHRISTOPHER O’CONNELL (AUS)
Head-to-head: first meeting
Monfils is bidding to extend an 8-match winning streak against qualifiers at the Grand Slams. He has not lost to a
qualifier at a Grand Slam since retiring due to a lower back injury while trailing Illya Marchenko in the 1st round at
the 2015 US Open. He has won 2 of his 3 matches against qualifiers at Wimbledon, defeating Noam Okun in the
1st round in 2005 and Daniel Brands in the 1st round in 2017 but falling to Lukasz Kubot in the 3rd round in 2011.
He has an 18-2 win-loss record against qualifiers at the Grand Slams and a 68-22 win-loss record against
qualifiers at Tour-level overall.
Monfils has never lost a Grand Slam match to a player ranked as low as No. 130 O’Connell. The lowest-ranked
player to have defeated Monfils at a Grand Slam is No. 120 Marchenko at the 2015 US Open. The lowest-ranked
player to have defeated Monfils at Wimbledon is No. 105 Igor Kunitsyn in the 1st round in 2006.
MONFILS v O’CONNELL
34 Age 27
17 ATP Ranking (28 June) 130
10 Titles 0
111-55 Career Grand Slam Record 2-5
16-11 Wimbledon Record 0-0
495-289 Career Record 3-11
40-30 Career Record - Grass 0-0
2-8 2021 Record 2-7
0-2 2021 Record - Grass 0-0
17-17 Career Five-Set Record 0-1
2 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 0
197-147 Career Tiebreak Record 7-6
1-2 2021 Tiebreak Record 5-4
• MONFILS is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 9th time. This is his 12th Wimbledon appearance and his
56th Grand Slam overall.
• At 2019 Wimbledon, Monfils retired due to a left ankle injury while trailing Ugo Humbert 67(6) 36 64 75 3-0 in the
1st round. He also fell in the 1st round here in 2006 (l. Igor Kunitsyn) and 2016 (l. Jeremy Chardy)
• Monfils’ best Wimbledon performance is reaching the round of 16 in 2018, when he defeated Richard Gasquet,
Paolo Lorenzi and Sam Querrey before falling to Kevin Anderson.
• Monfils’ best Grand Slam performance is reaching the semifinals on 2 occasions. He reached the last 4 at 2008
Roland Garros, where ranked No. 59 he lost to Roger Federer, and at the 2016 US Open (l. Novak Djokovic).
• Monfils is bidding to record his 112th Grand Slam match-win. He is in 2nd place on the all-time list for most
Grand Slam match-wins by a Frenchman. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (121 Grand Slam match-wins) is the only
Frenchman to have recorded more Grand Slam match-wins than Monfils.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Monfils reached the 2nd round at Roland Garros (d. Albert Ramos-Vinolas,
l. Mikael Ymer) but fell to Emil Ruusuvuori in 5 sets in the 1st round at the Australian Open.
• Prior to coming here, Monfils lost his opening match at both Halle (l. Lloyd Harris) and Eastbourne (l. Max
Purcell). He is bidding to end a 5-match losing streak on grass, having not recorded a grass court match-win since
reaching the 2nd round at 2019 Stuttgart (d. Steve Johnson, l. Denis Kudla).
• Monfils is bidding to record his 3rd Tour-level match-win since the Tour resumed following the hiatus
between March and August last year. Since returning to competition at Rome-1000 last September, his only
match-wins have come in a 2nd round finishes at Lyon (d. Thiago Seyboth Wild, l. Yoshihito Nishioka) and Roland
Garros this year. He has lost his opening match at the other 9 individual events he has contested since last
September, and lost the only singles match he contested at the ATP Cup.
• Monfils has lost all 5 five-set matches he has contested at Wimbledon. He has a 17-17 win-loss record in
5-set matches overall.
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