Alex de Minaur v Roberto Carballes Baena Wimbledon LIVE: Australian faces off in first-round action
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8.21pm
How about that heat ....
The one and only Carlos Alcaraz was able to help ...
8.17pm
It's 1-1 between de Minaur and Carballes Baena
The players are easing into this contest. Early days in this match. The temperature is in the range of 31 degrees Celsius in London - positively sweltering for those in the capital.
8.15pm
Scenes from Wimbledon
8.13pm
Carballes Baena leads de Minaur 1-0
A stock-standard opening game as Roberto Carballes Baena holds serve to go to a 1-0 lead in the opening set. All Australian eyes on de Minaur's movement tonight.
8.07pm
De Minaur's opening match is about to begin
Let's go .... the conditions look absolutely sensational. This match-up has been allocated court 18 at the All-England club.
8.07pm
American men still searching for a way to emulate Keys and Gauff
With Madison Keys and Coco Gauff raising hopes that they could complete an 'American slam' of the majors this year, their male counterparts at Wimbledon can only look on enviously.
Keys ended her long wait to get her hands on a grand slam trophy at the Australian Open this year and when Gauff triumphed at the French Open earlier this month it seemed like there was no stopping the Americans – in the women's draw at least.
Unfortunately for the men, Andy Roddick's U.S. Open victory in 2003 remains a painful reminder -- year after year -- of how long it has been since an American man picked up a singles trophy at one of the four majors.
The singles draw at Wimbledon is populated with 35 Americans - 19 in the women's and 16 in the men's - more than any other country.
Some of the players in action this year at Wimbledon, such as Learner Tien and Alex Michelsen, were not even born when Roddick was the toast of Flushing Meadows.
This year, the leader of the men's pack was supposed to be fifth seed Taylor Fritz, who came into the tournament riding high on confidence after winning his fourth Eastbourne title two days ago.
In fact, in the Wimbledon men's field, he owns the second-highest number of grasscourt titles - his haul of five only behind seven-times Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic.
But on Monday he came within two points of going out in the first round before hanging tough to win the fourth set tiebreak and leave the match deadlocked at two sets all when play was suspended for the night, 45 minutes before the 11pm curfew.
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