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
*Williams 4-2 Goerges
BREAK! And it's Williams who draws first blood.
The American took the game to two-break points with an angled backhand that Goerges could only flap at. The German looked ruffled, netting on the next point to gift the seven-time Wimbledon champion the first break of the match.
Williams 5-2 Goerges*
Williams holds comfortably. The American is finding her groove now. Can't see this set lasting too much longer...
Barty 3-0 Dart*
Ash Barty has the early break on Centre, after capitalising during a game which went to deuce.
Dart lost 6-0 6-0 to Maria Sharapova at the Australian Open on the Rod Laver Arena in January, so she'll want to get on the board as soon as possible here...
Herbert/Murray 2-1 Mektic/Skugor*
A comfortable hold apiece for both teams, with Mektic and Skugor looking to finish the point off quickly at the net when possible.
Williams 6-3 Goerges
And that's the first set wrapped up!
The American was made to work for it but she eventually got over the line on the third set point, firing across a curled forehand winner that landed plum on the sideline.
Barty 5-0 Dart
Over on Centre Court it looks like Britain's Harriet Dart is being taken to the cleaners. She's now 5-0 down, having been broken twice on her serve. She'll need to up her game if she's to put up any form of resistance against the world No 1, who has looked formidable so far at these Championships.
*Herbert/Murray 2-2 Mektic/Skugor
Blimey, that was a long old game!
An early break opportunity for Herbert and Murray at 30-40, but Skugor hits an irretrievable serve out wide to save it.
However, the Croat's game point opportunities are thwarted: with a trademark spot-on Murray return to the feet of Skugor, and then an attacking volley from Herbert forcing the error not once, not twice, not three times (alright... the third volley was a clean out winner) but four times.
On deuce no.7 though, Murray hits a volley lob and Mektic bizarrely lets it bounce on the line - Murray puts away the subsequent smash... yet the break point is scuppered by a big Skugor serve.
But some quick reaction volleys by Mektic eventually clinch the game for the sixth seeds!
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