Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleThe opening day of Wimbledon saw the worst performance by British players this century, with ten losing their matches. Only nine of the 21 British players who entered the main draw remained by Monday evening. High-profile British players Emma Raducanu and Jack Draper withdrew before their matches due to injury setbacks. British No 1 Cameron Norrie suffered his earliest Wimbledon exit since 2018, losing in five sets to college player Michael Zheng. The poor results, including only five sets won out of 29 played by British competitors, raised concerns about the LTA's wildcard strategy and the state of British tennis. In full‘It stinks’: Ten Brits fall on nightmare opening day of WimbledonThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
How British players at Wimbledon made history for all the wrong reasons
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleThe opening day of Wimbledon saw the worst performance by British players this century, with ten losing their matches. Only nine of the 21 British players who entered the main draw remained by Monday evening. High-profile British players Emma Raducanu and Jack Draper withdrew before their matches due to injury setbacks. British No 1 Cameron Norrie suffered his earliest Wimbledon exit since 2018, losing in five sets to college player Michael Zheng. The poor results, including only five sets won out of 29 played by British competitors, raised concerns about the LTA's wildcard strategy and the state of British tennis. In full‘It stinks’: Ten Brits fall on nightmare opening day of WimbledonThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
