Hello and welcome to coverage from day two of Wimbledon where Katie Boulter represents Great Britain\u2019s best chance of a presence in the second week after a dismal opening day.<\/p>\n
Ten Britons were beaten on Monday, which is one of the worst set of results in recent history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It could have been even worse but Jack Pinnington Jones was spared by bad light against Brandon Nakashima at two sets down and will have to finish his opener on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The tally of losses is the worst for the home nation since daily records began in 2000, while there is a possibility the record of 16 first-round defeats could be exceeded when the remaining players take to the court today.<\/p>\n
Fran Jones, who became the final faller when she lost 6-4, 6-4 to France\u2019s Diane Parry, said: \u201cIt will create bad headlines, probably slightly unfairly. I think, with some of the draws that people are handed, it was always going to be difficult.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut no one can hide from the heaviness of Wimbledon. It\u2019s important to everyone, and I\u2019m sure it played a factor being at the home slam.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lawn Tennis Association can justifiably point to the fact that the draws were particularly unkind this year, with only Cameron Norrie facing a player ranked lower than him.<\/p>\n
The British No 1\u2019s defeat by American Michael Zheng was undoubtedly the most disappointing of the day, although the qualifier played a terrific match to win in a fifth-set tie-break.<\/p>\n
It was a sixth defeat in a row for last year\u2019s quarter-finalist Norrie, who said: \u201cIf I could have had a few more matches leading in, I think I can win this match. There were so many small moments in the match that he did really well to go on his side.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harriet Dart was close to pulling off a sizeable upset against former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko, eventually losing out 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n
Qualifier Oliver Tarvet, who lost in the second round to Carlos Alcaraz last year, also played at a high level in a four-hour battle against 25th seed Arthur Rinderknech but was unable to force a deciding set.<\/p>\n
Britain\u2019s teenage trio of Mimi Xu, Hannah Klugman and Mika Stojsavljevic were also among the losers after being handed very difficult draws.<\/p>\n
Xu won her first senior set at Wimbledon against former quarter-finalist Daria Kasatkina but fell to a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 defeat while Stojsavljevic was quickly beaten 6-2, 6-1 by last year\u2019s semi-finalist Belinda Bencic.<\/p>\n
Klugman, 17, took on 2024 champion Barbora Krejcikova and was left feeling encouraged after a close second set in a 6-1, 6-4 loss.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel so motivated because it was 4-4, I had points to go 5-5,\u201d said Klugman. \u201cIn the first set I think I had a break point in most of her service games. So it\u2019s close.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, wild card Felix Gill was beaten by rising Spanish star Rafael Jodar while fellow debutants Alicia Dudeney and Max Basing also lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello and welcome to coverage from day two of Wimbledon where Katie Boulter represents Great Britain\u2019s best chance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[160074,9434,160075,217,101,118,56,54,55,157732,223111,164415,54657],"class_list":["post-666127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-apple-news-free","tag-katie-boulter","tag-live-priority","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content","tag-wimbledon-live","tag-wimbledon-tennis","tag-womens-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}