Wimbledon Day One Surprises

Frank Dancevic defeated 7th seed David Nalbandian

Dancevic’s 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 win, the biggest win of his career, came against a player who had never lost in the first round in five previous appearances at Wimbledon. What is more, Nalbandian had only been beaten in the opening round once in his previous 26 Grand Slams.

Casey Dellacqua defeated 12th seed Patty Schnyder

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defeated 17th seed Alize Cornet

Simon Stadler defeated 18th seed Ivo Karlovic

Vera Dushevina defeated 19th seed Maria Kirilenko

Evgeniya Rodina defeated 27th seed Virginie Razzano

Jie Zheng defeated 30th seed Dominika Cibulkova

Mario Ancic defeated 32th seed Michael Llodra


(photo/Reuters / A. Pierdominico)