LONDON — Eugenie Bouchard downed local favourite Johanna Konta and Milos Raonic blew past Andreas Seppi on Thursday to highlight a successful Day 4 for Canadian tennis players at Wimbledon.
Bouchard, from Montreal, beat 16th-seeded Briton Konta 6-3, 1-6, 6-1 to move into the women’s third round. After being dominated in the second set, Bouchard broke Konta in the second game of the decisive set and controlled the match from there.
Bouchard won on her first break point opportunity when Konta returned her serve a few inches long.
The Canadian will next face 19th-seeded Slovak Dominika Cibulkova in the third round. Bouchard has won both career meetings with Cibulkova, including a win in the semifinals of the Hobart Open earlier this year.
Raonic moved into the men’s third round with a 7-5 (5), 6-4, 6-2 win over Seppi.
The sixth seed from Thornhill, Ont., won a dogfight with Seppi in the first set before taking control of the match, taking his first match point opportunity with an ace.
Raonic, whose serve has been booming at the All England Club, fired 25 aces to Seppi’s two. Raonic had 27 aces in his first-round win over Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta.
The Canadian, who has yet to drop a set at Wimbledon, will next face 27th-seeded American Jack Sock in the third round. Raonic has won seven straight matches against Sock, including a third-round victory at the Miami Open earlier this year.
Both Raonic and Bouchard were named to Canada’s Olympic tennis tournament on Thursday.
In men’s doubles, Toronto’s Adil Shamasdin and British partner Jonathan Marray upset fourth-seeds Jean-Julien Rojer of France and Horia Tecau of Romania 6-2, 7-6 (3). They will face the German pair of Jan-Lennard Struff and Dustin Brown in the second round.