Wimbledon: Galan makes third round, will meet Ymer
Daniel Elahi Galan edged out Oscar Otte 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3) on Thursday and will face the winner of the match between Swede Mikael Ymer and American Taylor Fritz, the No 9 seed, in the next round
Colombian Daniel Elahi Galan moved into the third round of Wimbledon by edging out German qualifier Oscar Otte 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3) at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Thursday afternoon.
Galan, ranked No 85, will face the winner of the match between Swede Mikael Ymer and American Taylor Fritz, the No 9 seed, next.
The Colombian beat Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka, the No 24 seed (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) in the previous round of The Championships.
During the first round of The Championships, Otte, ranked No 233, won against Dominik Koepfer (7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (9)).
London (Grand Slam), other second-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 16.077.000, most recent results first):
- Cameron Norrie vs. Christopher Eubanks
- Carlos Alcaraz vs. Alexandre Muller
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Jiri Vesely
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Holger Rune
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
- Matteo Berrettini vs. Alex De Minaur
- Alexander Zverev vs. Yosuke Watanuki
- Jason Kubler vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Ilya Ivashka vs. Grigor Dimitrov
- Andy Murray vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Marcos Giron vs. Marton Fucsovics
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Adrian Mannarino
- Ben Shelton vs. Laslo Djere: thursday
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Dominic Stricker: thursday
- Mikael Ymer vs. Taylor Fritz: thursday
- Guido Pella vs. Harold Mayot: thursday
- Jiri Lehecka beat Francisco Cerundolo (18): 6-2, 6-2, 6-2
- Tomas Barrios Vera vs. David Goffin: thursday
- Corentin Moutet vs. Roman Safiullin: thursday
- Milos Raonic vs. Tommy Paul: thursday
- Liam Broady (WC) beat Casper Ruud (4): 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
- Andrey Rublev (7) beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4, 7-5
- Denis Shapovalov (26) beat Gregoire Barrere: 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7)
- Stan Wawrinka beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry (29): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Maximilian Marterer beat Michael Mmoh (LL): 7-5, 7-6 (5), 6-4
- Alexander Bublik (23) beat J.J. Wolf: 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-0
- Hubert Hurkacz (17) beat Jan Choinski (WC): 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Lorenzo Musetti (14) beat Jaume Munar: 6-4, 6-3, 6-1
- Quentin Halys beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-3, 6-1, 6-4
- Jannik Sinner (8) beat Diego Schwartzman: 7-5, 6-1, 6-2
- Novak Djokovic (2) beat Jordan Thompson: 6-3, 7-6 (4), 7-5