Hewitt, Evans, Ward Enjoy Perfect Opening Day
9th June 2014With the sun beating down and the grass playing perfectly, four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt and Britain’s No.2 and No.3 players were all victorious on day one of the Aegon Championships at The Queen’s Club.
After joining Tournament Director Ross Hutchins and the Centre Court crowd in a minute’s silence in memory of Elena Baltacha, James Ward overcame Blaz Rola of Slovenia 7-5, 6-4.
He was followed by Dan Evans, who battled tenaciously to see off the former World No.8 Jurgen Melzer, 6-3, 6-7(5) 7-6(2).
After that, it was Hewitt’s turn to remind everyone just why he won Wimbledon in 2002, dismantling Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-3, 6-3, before Feliciano Lopez and Dusan Lajovic were interrupted by rain with the score at 6-3.
On Tuesday, Lopez and Lajovic will play to a finish at the earlier time of 12 Noon, and they will be followed by Evans in second round action against Kevin Anderson. After that, the 2012 champion Marin Cilic will take on Marinko Matosevic of Australia, before arguably the match of the day between James Ward and the youngest man inside the Top 20, Grigor Dimitrov. After that, the second seed Tomas Berdych meets James Duckworth