Milos Raonic, Eugenie Bouchard advance to Wimbledon's 3rd round
Women's No. 2 seed Muguruza upset
Eugenie Bouchard downed local favourite Johanna Konta and Milos Raonic blew past Andreas Seppi on Thursday to highlight a successful Day 4 for Canadian tennis players at Wimbledon.
Bouchard, from Montreal, beat 16th-seeded Briton Konta 6-3, 1-6, 6-1 to move into the women's third round. After being dominated in the second set, Bouchard broke Konta in the second game of the decisive set and controlled the match from there.
Bouchard won on her first break point opportunity when Konta returned her serve a few inches long.
The Canadian will next face 19th-seeded Slovak Dominika Cibulkova in the third round. Bouchard has won both career meetings with Cibulkova, including a win in the semifinals of the Hobart Open earlier this year.
Raonic moved into the men's third round with a 7-5 (5), 6-4, 6-2 win over Seppi.
The sixth seed from Thornhill, Ont., won a dogfight with Seppi in the first set before taking control of the match, taking his first match point opportunity with an ace.
Raonic, whose serve has been booming at the All England Club, fired 25 aces to Seppi's two. Raonic had 27 aces in his first-round win over Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta.
The Canadian, who has yet to drop a set at Wimbledon, will next face 27th-seeded American Jack Sock in the third round. Raonic has won seven straight matches against Sock, including a third-round victory at the Miami Open earlier this year.
Both Raonic and Bouchard were named to Canada's Olympic tennis tournament on Thursday.
No. 2 seed Muguruza loses to qualifier
French Open champion and 2015 Wimbledon runner-up Garbine Muguruza was stunned in the second round by a qualifier ranked 124th.
Less than a month after winning her first Grand Slam title, the second-seeded Muguruza lost 6-3, 6-2 to Jana Cepelova of Slovakia in less than an hour. Muguruza made 22 unforced errors and only managed to produce nine winners.
A year ago at Wimbledon, Muguruza reached her first major final, losing to Serena Williams. Less than a month ago at Roland Garros, Muguruza beat Williams for the championship.
Cepelova has equaled her best showing at a Grand Slam tournament by getting to the third round.
This, though, is hardly her first big victory. At Wimbledon last year, she knocked off third-seeded Simona Halep in the first round. And at Charleston, South Carolina, in 2014, Cepelova defeated top-ranked Serena Williams.
Radwanska survives
Third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, the 2012 runner-up at Wimbledon, saved three match points and came back to beat 18-year-old Croatian Ana Konjuh, who accidentally stepped on a tennis ball and injured her right ankle in the next-to-last game.
Radwanska pulled out the 2-6, 6-4, 9-7 victory in the second round after the 103rd-ranked Konjuh was broken while serving for the victory at 5-4 and 6-5 in the third set.
Radwanska has made it to at least the semifinals at Wimbledon in three of the past four years.
Murray cruises
Andy Murray improved to 7-0 on grass this season, beating Lu Yen-Hsun 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 to reach the third round.
The 2013 champion at the All England Club won his fifth title at Queen's before coming to Wimbledon.
Murray trailed 3-1 in the first set but dropped only three more games the rest of the match. He finished with only 12 unforced errors, while Lu had 25.
Murray will next face John Millman of Australia.
Venus stays alive
Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams beat Greek qualifier Maria Sakkari 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to reach the third round.
The eighth-seeded Williams, at 36 the oldest player seeded in the top eight at a major tournament since Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon in 1994, had 38 winners but 31 unforced errors.
Williams won the last of her five Wimbledon titles in 2008. Since 2011, she has not been past the fourth round.
An outburst worthy of McEnroe
Viktor Troicki put on a display not seen since the likes of bombastic American John McEnroe roamed the grass courts at Wimbledon.
"Worst umpire ever in the world! What are you doing? Did you see the ball?" Troicki screamed at chair umpire Damiano Torella.
"You're horrible!"
"What are you doing? Tell me!"
"What are you doing there?! What are you doing there?!"
It all happened as Troicki's opponent, Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain, served for the match at 5-3 in the final set. At 30-all, Ramos-Vinolas hit a serve that initially was called out by a linesman behind Troicki. It was not clear, exactly, who changed that ruling, but Torella announced the score was now 40-30, crediting Ramos-Vinolas with an ace and pushing him to match point.
Troicki began shouting, "No! No! No!" and went over to retrieve a ball and show it to Torella, saying there was no white chalk left on the yellow fuzz — and, therefore, it had not hit a line.
The umpire gave Troicki a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct. When play resumed, Ramos-Vinolas hit a serve that Troicki returned long with a backhand, giving the Spaniard a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 victory and a berth in the third round.
Troicki faces a fine for his rant.
"[Torella] should be also fined, if you ask me," Troicki said.
With files from The Associated Press & The Canadian Press