LONDON (Reuters) – Highlights of day five of the Wimbledon tennis championships on Friday (all times GMT):
1800 BRITISH TOP SEED EVANS ELIMINATED BY KORDA
Three days shy of his 21st birthday, Sebastian Korda beat Briton Dan Evans 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-4 on his Centre Court debut to become the youngest American to reach the last-16 since 20-year-old Andy Roddick reached the semi-finals in 2003.
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Jabeur casts spell over Muguruza to reach last 16
Wolf-man Djokovic downs Kudla to reach last 16
Pliskova trumps Martincova in Czech battle to move into Wimbledon last-16
Swiatek crushes Begu to reach Wimbledon last 16
In-form Samsonova powers past Stephens to reach Wimbledon last 16
Shapovalov seeks taste of Centre Court against battle-scarred idol Murray
Federer gets his sparkle back as sun shines at Wimbledon
Hit or miss, but Ostapenko blazes into third round
Medvedev crushes teenager Alcaraz to reach third round
Gauff conquers Centre Court nerves to beat Vesnina at Wimbledon
Teenage wildcard Raducanu keeps home flag flying in women’s singles
Barty wins Blinkova battle to reach Wimbledon third round
Kyrgios delights in Mager victory at Wimbledon
Struggling Svitolina joins exodus of women’s seeds at Wimbledon
Wimbledon order of play on Friday
1652 DJOKOVIC OUSTS KUDLA
Top seed Novak Djokovic beat American Denis Kudla 6-4 6-3 7-6(7) to move into the last-16 at Wimbledon for the 13th time in his career.
Kudla threatened to take the match into a fourth set when he led 1-4 in the third before Djokovic forced a tiebreak, where the Serb fought back from 1-4 down again to advance.
1647 SCHWARTZMAN SENT PACKING BY FUCSOVICS
Unseeded Hungarian Marton Fucsovics beat ninth seed Diego Schwartzman 6-3 6-3 6-7(6) 6-4 to move into the second week of Wimbledon for the first time in his career. He will meet Russian fifth seed Andrey Rublev for a place in the quarter-finals.
For Schwartzman, Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam where he has never reached the last-16.
1505 JABEUR DUMPS MUGURUZA OUT
Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur became the first Arab woman to reach the second week of Wimbledon as she rallied from a set down to beat 2017 champion Garbine Muguruza 5-7 6-3 6-2.
1430 SAMSONOVA OUSTS STEPHENS
Russian wildcard Liudmila Samsonova earned her 10th straight win on grass as she stunned former U.S. Open winner Sloane Stephens 6-2 2-6 6-4 to reach the last-16 of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career.
1315 RUBLEV PASSES FOGNINI TEST
Fifth seeded Russian Andrey Rublev booked a place in the second week of the tournament for the first time with a 6-3 5-7 6-4 6-2 win over Italian Fabio Fognini.
1310 SABALENKA RACES INTO LAST 16
Second seed Aryna Sabalenka broke Colombian teenager Maria Camila Osorio Serrano’s serve six times in an impressive 6-0 6-3 victory, booking a place in the Wimbledon fourth round for the first time in her career.
1140 PLISKOVA TOPPLES MARTINCOVA IN ALL-CZECH CLASH
Eighth seed Karolina Pliskova, one of the four top-10 seeded players left in the women’s draw, struck 30 winners in a dominant 6-3 6-3 victory over fellow Czech Tereza Martincova.
1058 SWIATEK ADVANCES IN 55 MINUTES
Former French Open champion Iga Swiatek beat Irina-Camelia Begu 6-1 6-0 in 55 minutes to move into the fourth round where she will face Jabeur.
The seventh seed fired 11 winners while Begu made 25 unforced errors.
1000 PLAY GETS UNDERWAY
Play on the fifth day of Wimbledon began on time under mostly cloudy conditions, with the temperature hovering around 19 degrees Celsius (66.2°F).
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak, Rohith Nair and Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Radnedge and Pritha Sarkar)
