2019 WIMBLEDON DAY 3 MEN’S NOTES Wednesday 3 July 2nd Round Top Half Featured matches No. 1 Novak Djokovic (SRB) v Denis Kudla (USA) No. 4 Kevin Anderson (RSA) v Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) No. 10 Karen Khachanov (RUS) v (WC) Feliciano Lopez (ESP) No. 11 Daniil Medvedev (RUS) v (Q) Alexei Popyrin (AUS) No. 15 Milos Raonic (CAN) v Robin Haase (NED) No. 19 Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) v (Q) Corentin Moutet (FRA) No. 21 David Goffin (BEL) v Jeremy Chardy (FRA) No. 22 Stan Wawrinka (SUI) v Reilly Opelka (USA) No. 26 Guido Pella (ARG) v Andreas Seppi (ITA) No. 30 Kyle Edmund (GBR) v Fernando Verdasco (ESP) On court today… • Having become the first man born in the 2000s to record a Grand Slam match-win by winning his 1st round match on Monday, No. 19 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime returns to court to face qualifier Corentin Moutet today. 18-year-old Auger-Aliassime and 20-year-old Moutet are the youngest and 4th-youngest men left in the draw here, respectively. While the Canadian is ranked more than 60 places higher than Moutet, he will be wary of the Frenchman, who came back from 0-2 down to defeat former Wimbledon semifinalist Grigor Dimitrov in the 1st round here. • British No. 1 Kyle Edmund will once again take centre stage here today – he goes up against former Top 10 player Fernando Verdasco in the 3rd match on Centre Court. Edmund is one of 7 British players, men and women, to reach the 2nd round here – the highest number of home players through to the 2nd round at Wimbledon since 2006, when there were also 7. Edmund defeated a Spanish player in Jaume Munar in the 1st round, but Verdasco, who reached the quarterfinals here in 2013, will present an even greater challenge today. • No. 10 seed Karen Khachanov plays the wild card and wily grass court campaigner Feliciano Lopez in a mouth- watering clash on No. 1 Court today. Lopez dropped to his lowest ranking in over 17 years earlier this year but, having won the singles and doubles titles at Queen’s last month, is now just outside the Top 50 and will hope to climb even higher with a good performance here too. The Spaniard is a 3-time Wimbledon quarterfinalist – but Khachanov has reached the 3rd round or better in each of his previous appearances here and will be determined to maintain that record with victory today. • Qualifier Alexei Popyrin is hoping to emulate his compatriot and mentor Pat Cash at Wimbledon this year. The 1987 champion is working with the 19-year-old Australian during the grass court season, and Popyrin will hope that the work they have done together will pay off when he takes on the No. 11 seed Daniil Medvedev in the 2nd match on Court 12 today. Popyrin comes into the tournament on a strong grass court run, having battled through qualifying last week, but Medvedev is among the stand-out performers of the season so far and Popyrin will have to be at his best if he is to prevent the Russian from notching up a 30th Tour-level match-win of 2019. For more information, visit the ITF website and follow @ITFMedia on Twitter If you would like to receive the Wimbledon men’s match notes by email please contact the Men’s Tour Information desk in the media centre 2019 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notes NO. 1 NOVAK DJOKOVIC (SRB) v DENIS KUDLA (USA) Head-to-head: first meeting Djokovic has lost a Grand Slam match to a player ranked as low as No. 111 Kudla on just one previous occasion – when he fell to No. 117 Denis Istomin in the 2nd round at the 2017 Australian Open. Djokovic has lost a grass court match to a player ranked as low as Kudla on just one previous occasion – to No. 128 Jan Hernych in the 2nd round at 2006 ’s-Hertogenbosch. The lowest-ranked player to defeat Djokovic at Wimbledon is No. 75 Marat Safin in the 2nd round in 2008. DJOKOVIC v KUDLA 32 Age 26 1 ATP Ranking 111 74 Titles 0 271-42 Career Grand Slam Record 11-20 66-10 Wimbledon Record 6-5 865-182 Career Record 49-89 89-18 Career Record - Grass 21-19 29-6 2019 Record 8-15 1-0 2019 Record - Grass 3-2 29-10 Career Five-Set Record 4-6 4 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 2 239-136 Career Tiebreak Record 22-32 6-3 2019 Tiebreak Record 4-4 • Defending champion DJOKOVIC is bidding to reach the 3rd round here for the 14th time • Djokovic is bidding to reach the 3rd round here for the 11th consecutive year and claim sole ownership of 2nd place on the list 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 No. 75 Marat Safin. It was his earliest exit here. • Djokovic advanced to the 2nd round here after defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber 63 75 63 in the 1st round on Monday. • Last year here, Djokovic won his 4th Wimbledon title, defeating Kevin Anderson 62 62 76(3) in the final. At No. 21, he became the lowest-ranked man to win the Wimbledon title since No. 125 Goran Ivanisevic in 2001. This is his 15th consecutive appearance at Wimbledon and his 58th Grand Slam overall. • Djokovic is bidding to win his 5th Wimbledon title and move into joint-4th place on the list for most Wimbledon titles won in history, alongside Bjorn Borg and Laurie Doherty (see Preview page 1) • Djokovic is also bidding to win back-to-back Wimbledon titles for the 2nd time in his career, having won consecutive titles here in 2014-15, defeating Roger Federer in the final on both occasions. He defeated Rafael Nadal to win his first Wimbledon title in 2011, and also reached the final here in 2013 (l. Andy Murray). • Djokovic is looking to win his 16th Grand Slam title here. By defeating Nadal to win his 15th Grand Slam title at the Australian Open this year, he claimed sole ownership of 3rd place on the all-time list for most Grand Slam men’s singles titles, ahead of Pete Sampras. Federer (20 major titles) and Nadal (18) are the only men to have won more Grand Slam singles titles than Djokovic. (see Preview page 2) • Also at the Grand Slams in 2019, Djokovic reached the semifinals at Roland Garros where he fell to Dominic Thiem in 5 sets, ending a 26-match winning streak at the Grand Slams which began in the 1st round here last year. • Djokovic did not contest a grass court event prior to coming here. It is the 7th time in the last 10 years that he has entered Wimbledon without playing a grass court event – but the first time since 2016, having played at Eastbourne in 2017 and Queen’s in 2018. 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 and 2014-15. (see Preview page 9) 2019 Wimbledon day 3 men’s match notes • Also in 2019, Djokovic won his 74th Tour-level title at Madrid-1000 (d. Stefanos Tsitsipas). His victory against Tsitsipas was his 200th match-win against a Top 10 player. He also finished runner-up at Rome-1000 (l. Nadal), reached the semifinals at Doha (l. Roberto Bautista Agut), the quarterfinals at Monte Carlo-1000 (l. Daniil Medvedev), the round of 16 at Miami-1000 (l. Bautista Agut) and the 3rd round at Indian Wells-1000 (l. Kohlschreiber). • This is the 21st Grand Slam at which Djokovic has been seeded No. 1. He was also seeded No. 1 at the Australian Open and Roland Garros this year, having previously not been seeded No. 1 at a Grand Slam since the 2016 US Open. • Djokovic returned to the world No. 1 ranking for the first time since October 2016 in November last year, and has been ranked No. 1 since then. He is guaranteed to remain at No. 1 when the new rankings are released on Monday 15 July regardless of his performance here. • Djokovic has an 8-1 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 29-10 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall. • Djokovic has played Davis Cup for Serbia since 2004 and has a 34-10 overall win-loss record in the competition. Serbia will compete in Group A against France and Japan at the Davis Cup Finals in Madrid in November. • Djokovic is coached by Marian Vajda. • KUDLA is bidding to record his 50th Tour-level match-win today. • Kudla is bidding to reach 3rd round here for the 2nd time. This is his 6th Wimbledon appearance and his 21st Grand Slam overall. • Kudla advanced to the 2nd round here for the 4th time after defeating Malek Jaziri 64 61 63 in the 1st round on Monday. • Last year here, as a wild card, Kudla fell to Lucas Pouille in 4 sets in the 1st round. • Kudla’s best Grand Slam result is reaching the round of 16 as a wild card here in 2015, where he defeated Pablo Cuevas, Alexander Zverev and Santiago Giraldo before falling to Marin Cilic.