Rune, 20, will face British wildcard Ryan Peniston, who beat the Dane at Eastbourne last year, next. In contrast to Alcaraz, Danish second seed Holger Rune had a smoother start to his grass-court season with a 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-3) win over American world number 42 Maxime Cressy. WTA 50th anniversary: Billie Jean King and Rosie Casals on how they changed women's tennisĮarlier on Tuesday, Spanish top seed Carlos Alcaraz earlier came through a tricky test to win on his debut at the Cinch Championships.Īlcaraz, 20, recovered against French lucky loser Arthur Rinderknech to win 4-6 7-5 7-6 (7-3) in the first round.īritish number five Liam Broady, ranked 143rd, lost 1-6 6-4 6-3 to France's world number 46 Adrian Mannarino.īroady looked on course for his best win by ranking of the season before the experienced Mannarino fought back.Former world number two Kontaveit to retire after Wimbledon.British number one Boulter loses in Birmingham first round.There are a lot of positive signs there.' 'I was holding serve very comfortably, moving well, hitting the ball good. I only lost one set in Surbiton,' he said. 'It's obviously not the same level of opponents, but I won Nottingham last week without dropping a set. Murray said he knows there are things he can do better but he can also take positives from his good grass-court form in the past few weeks. 'I don't want to overanalyse,' said 36-year-old Murray, who won titles in Surbiton and Nottingham before Queen's.
