Quick Served: Wimbledon Day 3

Sinner’s telling stat, Gauff’s gritty escape and Andreeva’s early exit

Jul 02, 2026

Context-free soundbite: “I only had one choice, which was to heckle.”

Andy called Jannik Sinner’s second-round match on ESPN and delivers a deep dive on the defending champ’s form in today’s episode. He and JW also discuss why Novak Djokovic looks like a tournament favorite, Barbora Krejcikova’s massive upset of Mirra Andreeva and Tommy Paul’s momentum. Plus, the World Cup brings out Andy’s Cockney accent.

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The Rundown

Call Me Coco. No. 56 Solana Sierra led Coco Gauff 7–4 in the match tiebreak before Gauff won six straight points, sealing the comeback with an ace and a howl. She said later that she had “reminded myself who I am,” a frequent tip from her team. She reminded everyone with the shot below at 7–7 in the breaker, an athletic winner only she can produce.

The Crying Game. A lot of players have watered the Wimbledon lawns in Week 1, weeping in either triumph or disaster. Iga Swiatek, Taylor Townsend, Stan Wawrinka and Grigor Dimitrov all broke down for one reason or another. Today it was Mirra Andreeva. The 19-year-old’s emotions spilled over toward the end of her three-set loss to Barbora Krejcikova and again in the press conference. When the 2024 champion sealed the upset over the No. 5 seed, Andreeva chucked her racket from mid-court to her chair after match point and yelled to her box, “I’m quitting.” She backed off in the press conference, saying, “Well, of course I’m going to need a couple days. Then I’m going to be back to practice for hard courts.”

Emotions also ran high on Nick Kyrgios’s court toward the end of his doubles loss with Alexander Bublik as he contemplated retirement. “I just feel body-wise and everything, probably I’d be hard to see myself coming back here again and competing,” he said afterward. “It’s heartbreaking.” He also swore at the umpire, like old times.

Qualifiers on Fire. Is Mananchaya Sawangkaew the new Maja Chwalinska? Qualifier, tongue-twister of a name, dropping bagels on quality players? Poetically, the woman who took out Chwalinska in Round 1 (albeit when Chwalinska hurt herself on match point) advanced another round, 7-5, 6-0 over Alycia Parks. On the men’s side, American Michael Zheng backed up his upset of No. 29 seed Cameron Norrie with a win over Nicolas Mejia 6-7, 7-6, 6-1, 6-4—and the incredible dive volley below. It’s the NCAA champion’s first time making the third round of a Slam.

Bracket Busters

Marton Fucsovics def. Learner Tien [16] 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 6-3
Barbora Krejcikova def. Mirra Andreeva [5] 4-6, 7-5, 6-4

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Perfect Delivery: Ghost Story

Great Britain’s Dan Evans headed into retirement today after his doubles loss, and while the country’s Lawn Tennis Association remained quiet about the end of his 20-year career, he didn’t.

🎤 Dan Evans
“Are they working this week? I have not seen any of them. Serious. No one spoke to me this week. No one has congratulated me on my career this week.”

Let us do the honors. Congratulations on a stellar career, Dan Evans. You got to No. 21 in the world, beat Novak Djokovic and won Davis Cup and two ATP titles. We’ll miss your grit and your candor.

Evans had more to say about being denied a singles wild card into Wimbledon and an proper send-off in person. (The LTA posted a tribute to Evans online.)

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Consecutive Slam tiebreaks won by Aryna Sabalenka, an Open Era record

Sabalenka hasn’t lost a tiebreak at a Slam in three years. She extended the streak today with a 6-1, 7-6 win over McCartney Kessler.

Afterward, she explained the mindset behind the dominance.

🎤 Aryna Sabalenka
“I trust my shots on the tiebreak and I think that really makes a big difference. And also … the way you start is most likely the way it’s going to go because every point makes a difference at the beginning especially. So I feel like trusting my shots and staying aggressive really helps me to get this incredible stat.”

Andy's Take on the Stat of the Day

Tiebreak Trivia

On this day in 2019, 15-year-old Coco Gauff beat Venus Williams in the first round, making her the youngest player to win a match at Wimbledon since another American teenager. Who was it?

💡 The answer will be in Day 4’s Quick Served newsletter.

Day 2 answer: Both Ivo Karlovic and Feliciano Lopez were older than Stan Wawrinka when they played Slam matches this century. Wawrinka became the third-oldest man to play a major in the 2000s at 41 years and 94 days.

Quick Hits

Andy Murray and Kim Sears (Photo credit: *Harper’s Bazaar*)

Andy Murray, contemporary art collector and historic preservationist. Here’s a tour of his and Kim Sears’s renovation of Cromlix, a luxury hotel in Scotland. (Harper’s Bazaar)
Maja Chwalinska wears Chanel on the cover of Vogue Polska and talks about humility in the article. (h/t Hard Court)
The opposite of the queue: two tickets for half a million pounds.
The WTA Finals are moving from Saudi Arabia to Indian Wells this year. Bounces has a free story.
Italian media outlet Spazio Tennis reported that the ATP Tour is considering slashing doubles draws and prize money in half. In a paywalled story, Bounces says, “If the proposed ideas go through, the waves that crash into the doubles specialists could have tsunami force.”
Golf royalty took over Centre Court today. Rory McIlroy, Luke Donald, Justin Rose and Thomas Bjørn watched the day’s action from Princess Kate’s seats. More celebrity sightings. (ESPN)
Thanks for the Bracket Challenge shout-out, Rally Report. And great story on the GLTA. (h/t Chucker Adrian Margaret Brune)
Dad joke of the tournament ⬇️