Wimbledon 2019 - Day Six coverage: Andy Murray and Serena Williams win, Dan Evans out in heartbreaking fashion
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Your support makes all the difference.Follow live coverage from day six at Wimbledon where Andy Murray, Serena Williams, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal all in action.
The Scot, who returned to SW19 with a bang in the men's doubles on Thursday, finally gets his mixed doubles campaign underway alongside 23-time Grand Slam champion Williams after being made to wait by teenage sensation Cori Gauff on Friday evening. Murray was also in men's doubles action alongside Pierre-Hugues Herbert earlier in the day. Elsewhere eight-time champ Federer continued his march to what he hopes will be another All England title while Nadal faced Jo Wilfried Tsonga in the match of the day on Centre Court.
We'll have all the latest for you throughout the day:
ORDER OF PLAY - DAY SIX
CENTRE COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START
1 Ashleigh Barty (AUS) [1] 1 vs Harriet Dart (GBR) 5
2 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 92 vs Rafael Nadal (ESP) [3] 96
3 Lucas Pouille (FRA) [27] 121 vs Roger Federer (SUI) [2] 128
No.1 COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START
1 Serena Williams (USA) [11] 17 vs Julia Goerges (GER) [18] 24
2 Sloane Stephens (USA) [9] 49 vs Johanna Konta (GBR) [19] 56
3 Joao Sousa (POR) 83 vs Daniel Evans (GBR) 86
No.2 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:00 START
1 Magda Linette (POL) 59 vs Petra Kvitova (CZE) [6] 64
NOT BEFORE 13.00
2 Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) / Andy Murray (GBR) 30 vs Nikola Mektic (CRO) / Franko Skugor (CRO) [6] 32
3 Robert Lindstedt (SWE) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 21 vs Jay Clarke (GBR) / Cori Gauff (USA) 22
No.3 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:00 START
1 Kei Nishikori (JPN) [8] 97 vs Steve Johnson (USA) 101
2 Kiki Bertens (NED) [4] 33 vs Barbora Strycova (CZE) 39
3 Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) 14 vs Bob Bryan (USA) / Mike Bryan (USA) [7] 16
COURT 12 - SHOW COURT - 11:00 START
1 Alison Riske (USA) 10 vs Belinda Bencic (SUI) [13] 16
2 Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) [33] 105 vs Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) 110
3 Timea Babos (HUN) / Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) [1] 1 vs Jennifer Brady (USA) / Alison Riske (USA)
NOT BEFORE 17.30
4 Rebecca Peterson (SWE) / Tamara Zidansek (SLO) 37 vs Victoria Azarenka (BLR) / Ashleigh Barty (AUS) [10] 40
COURT 18 - SHOW COURT - 11:00 START
1 Elise Mertens (BEL) [21] 41 vs Qiang Wang (CHN) [15] 48
2 Matteo Berrettini (ITA) [17] 113 vs Diego Schwartzman (ARG) [24] 120
3 Neal Skupski (GBR) / Hao-Ching Chan (TPE) [9] 9 vs Matwe Middelkoop (NED) / Zhaoxuan Yang (CHN) 12
NOT BEFORE 17.30
4 John Peers (AUS) / Shuai Zhang (CHN) [4] 17 vs Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) / Abigail Spears (USA) or Henri Kontinen (FIN) / Heather Watson (GBR) 20
COURT 4 - 11:00 START
1 Eric Vanshelboim (UKR) 3 vs Leandro Riedi (SUI) 4 (BS)
2 Dane Sweeny (AUS) 55 vs Harold Mayot (FRA) [17] 56 (BS) 2 Rinky Hijikata (AUS) 5 vs Govind Nanda (USA) 6 (BS)
3 Toby Kodat (USA) [7] 33 vs Tristan Schoolkate (AUS) 34 (BS)
4 Kristyna Lavickova (CZE) 27 vs Erin Richardson (GBR) 28 (GS)
COURT 5 - 11:30 START
1 Valentina Ryser (SUI) 39 vs Sohyun Park (KOR) [12] 40 (GS)
2 Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 61 vs Destinee Martins (GBR) 62 (GS)
3 Matteo Arnaldi (ITA) 11 vs Arthur Fery (GBR) 12 (BS)
4 James Story (GBR) 63 vs Jonas Forejtek (CZE) [2] 64 (BS)
COURT 6 - 11:30 START
1 Mai Napatt Nirundorn (THA) 37 vs Holly Fischer (GBR) 38 (GS)
2 Ane Mintegi Del Olmo (ESP) 43 vs Victoria Allen (GBR) 44 (GS)
3 Sonay Kartal (GBR) 5 vs Annerly Poulos (AUS) 6 (GS)
4 Harry Wendelken (GBR) 31 vs Jiri Lehecka (CZE) [5] 32 (BS)
5 Valentin Royer (FRA) 15 vs Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) [8] 16 (BS)
COURT 7 - 11:30 START
1 Flavio Cobolli (ITA) 43 vs Sergey Fomin (UZB) 44 (BS)
2 Emma Navarro (USA) [1] 1 vs Diana Shnaider (RUS) 2 (GS)
3 Anastasia Tikhonova (RUS) [13] 41 vs Hong Yi Cody Wong (HKG) 42 (GS)
4 Martin Damm (USA) [4] 17 vs Francesco Passaro (ITA) 18 (BS)
5 Dalibor Svrcina (CZE) 37 vs Wojciech Marek (POL) 38 (BS) 5
COURT 8 - 11:00 START
1 Xinyun Han (CHN) / Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO) 22 vs Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) / Monica Niculescu (ROU) [15] 24
2 Sorana Cirstea (ROU) / Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 5 vs Alize Cornet (FRA) / Petra Martic (CRO) 7
3 Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) / Xinyun Han (CHN) 37 vs Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) / Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) 38
4 Bruno Soares (BRA) / Nicole Melichar (USA) [1] 1 vs Denys Molchanov (UKR) / Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 3 4
COURT 9 - 11:00 START
1 Anna Blinkova (RUS) / Yafan Wang (CHN) 53 vs Maria Sakkari (GRE) / Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) 55
2 Raquel Atawo (USA) / Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR) [16] 57 vs Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER) / Laura Siegemund (GER) 60
3 Ivan Dodig (CRO) / Filip Polasek (SVK) 26 vs Nicholas Monroe (USA) / Mischa Zverev (GER) 27
4 Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) [13] 41 vs Artem Sitak (NZL) / Laura Siegemund (GER) or Ken Skupski (GBR) / Darija Jurak (CRO) 44
COURT 10 - 11:00 START
1 Antonia Samudio (COL) 3 vs Selena Janicijevic (FRA) 4 (GS)
2 Mell Elizabeth Reasco Gonzalez (ECU) 63 vs Maria Camila Osorio Serrano (COL) [2] 64 (GS)
3 Youcef Rihane (ALG) 21 vs Taha Baadi (CAN) 22 (BS)
4 Joanna Garland (TPE) [14] 57 vs Aubane Droguet (FRA) 58 (GS) 4
COURT 11 - 11:00 START
1 Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP) / Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 53 vs Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG) [9] 56
2 Samantha Stosur (AUS) / Shuai Zhang (CHN) [5] 33 vs Danielle Collins (USA) / Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 36
3 Luke Bambridge (GBR) / Asia Muhammad (USA) 54 vs Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) / Andreja Klepac (SLO) [11] 56
4 Abigail Forbes (USA) 45 vs Liubov Kostenko (UKR) 46 (GS) 4
COURT 14 - 12:30 START
1 Tennys Sandgren (USA) 76 vs Fabio Fognini (ITA) [12] 80
2 Joran Vliegen (BEL) / Saisai Zheng (CHN) 62 vs Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) / Demi Schuurs (NED) [2] 64
3 Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) / Barbora Strycova (CZE) [3] 17 vs Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) / Viktorija Golubic (SUI) 19
COURT 15 - 11:30 START
1 Filip Cristian Jianu (ROU) [13] 41 vs Toby Samuel (GBR) 42 (BS)
NOT BEFORE 12.30
2 Marcus Daniell (NZL) / Wesley Koolhof (NED) 21 vs Jaume Munar (ESP) / Cameron Norrie (GBR) 23
3 Divij Sharan (IND) / Yingying Duan (CHN) [16] 57 vs Evan Hoyt (GBR) / Eden Silva (GBR) 60
4 Wesley Koolhof (NED) / Kveta Peschke (CZE) [5] 33 vs Philipp Oswald (AUT) / Monique Adamczak (AUS) 36
COURT 16 - 11:00 START
1 Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) [30] 25 vs Lauren Davis (USA) 30
2 Oliver Marach (AUT) / Jurgen Melzer (AUT) [14] 57 vs Roman Jebavy (CZE) / Philipp Oswald (AUT) 59
3 Carlos Gimeno Valero (ESP) 47 vs Thiago Agustin Tirante (ARG) [3] 48 (BS)
4 Elina Avanesyan (RUS) 11 vs Carlota Martinez Cirez (ESP) 12 (GS) 4
COURT 17 - 11:00 START
1 Sam Querrey (USA) 66 vs John Millman (AUS) 70
2 Shunsuke Mitsui (JPN) [14] 57 vs Juan Bautista Torres (ARG) 58 (BS)
3 Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida (BRA) 27 vs Alejo Lorenzo Lingua Lavallen (ARG) 28 (BS)
4 Qinwen Zheng (CHN) [3] 17 vs Thasaporn Naklo (THA) 18 (GS)
MATCHES TO BE ARRANGED NOT BEFORE 17.30
Andy Murray (GBR) / Serena Williams (USA) or Andreas Mies (GER) / Alexa Guarachi (CHI) 6
Pouille 5-7 Federer*
FEDERER WINS THE SECOND SET!
He takes it on set point number two, and out of nothing, the 8-time champion secures the first set!
Sousa 3-4 Evans*
Evans has another opportunity for the double break, as he continues his inspiring start. He can't quite get it done, as Sousa stays within arm's length of the Brit on Court No 1.
Sousa 4-6 2-3 Evans*
Evans continues to hold with ease, while Sousa struggles through his service games. Another opportunity for a double break goes begging for Evans though, will he come to regret that?
Pouille 5-7 2-6 1-1 Federer*
Federer in cruise control here. The Swiss is oozing class as he hits one cracking shot after another. Still, Pouille is putting up a fight and certainly holds the capacity to catch out his opponent - as seen with a stunning forehand winner that had the eight-time Wimbledon champ scrambling for a return. At advantage, the Frenchman holds for serve after coming close to being broken.
With this match looking like it'll be wrapped up within the hour, I suspect Andy Murray and Serena Williams' mixed doubles match will be held here on Centre Court. A fitting venue for the pair.
Sousa 4-6 3-4 Evans*
The pattern of this match has not changed one bit: Evans holds easily, Sousa struggles but somehow holds.
Same again.
Evans, it has to be said, is playing some stunning tennis.
Clarke and Gauff lost in the mixed doubles first round, in straight sets.
Sousa 4-6 3-4 Evans* (40-40)
At 30-30, Sousa blasts a return back and out of nothing he has a BREAK POINT.
But the Portuguese nets his return, deuce.
*Sousa 4-6 4-4 Evans
SOUSA BREAKS!
This time on break point though, Sousa hits an aggressive return and Evans can only slice into the net.
I said Evans may come to regret those missed break point opportunities... we're back on serve in the second set.
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