Wimbledon: Lucky Loser Mmoh stuns 11th-seeded Auger-Aliassime

American lucky loser Michael Mmoh edged out Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 11 seed, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-4 to reach the second round of Wimbledon at the All England Club in London on Monday afternoon.

It has been a wonderful year at the Slams for Mmoh. He had never been past the second round at a major prior to January, when he reached the third round as a Lucky Loser. Today, he earned his second top 20 Grand Slam of the season by taking out the Canadian in three hours and 59 minutes.

Mmoh, ranked No 119, will face German Maximilian Marterer next.

Auger-Aliassime: I wasn’t myself

The Candian has not been himself of late on tour. He has battled injuries as he has lost six of his last seven matches since April.

“It’s a tough day. I have to give him credit,” he said. “He served well. He played a good match, I think.

“I wasn’t totally myself out there for different reasons. Of course I knew I was not coming with the best preparation or the best few weeks before that, but I still tried and I thought I could do well – I thought I could be better.”

Felix is not himself

A tendon problem in the knee has bothered the Canadian for sometime, and he knew it would be difficult to compete at Wimbledon ahead of time.

“A problem with my tendon there, It’s been ongoing for a few months,” he said. “We’re working hard every day to try to resolve the situation. You know, we’ll keep going. We knew it was going to be challenging to come here. I didn’t play many matches. I wasn’t really able to test myself physically and play more than two practice sets in a row.”

Auger-Aliassime seems to believe that rest and recuperation will do the trick and he hopes to find his form later in the season.

“I can play. It’s just, yeah, I’m just not myself yet,” he said. “So I’ll keep working and be patient. Hopefully, you know, as the season goes on I can come back to a good level.”

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London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, most recent results first):

• Cameron Norrie vs. Tomas Machac
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Alexander Shevchenko
• Daniil Medvedev vs. Arthur Fery
• Dominic Stricker vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Yibing Wu
• Ryan Peniston vs. Andy Murray
• Shintaro Mochizuki vs. Tommy Paul
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Arthur Fils
• Sho Shimabukuro vs. Grigor Dimitrov
• Ilya Ivashka vs. Federico Coria
• Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Yosuke Watanuki
• Alexander Zverev vs. Gijs Brouwer
• Marco Cecchinato vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Jason Kubler vs. Ugo Humbert
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Nuno Borges
• Carlos Alcaraz vs. Jeremy Chardy
• Maxime Cressy vs. Laslo Djere
• Jiri Vesely vs. Sebastian Korda
• Milos Raonic vs. Dennis Novak
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Kimmer Coppejans vs. Alex De Minaur
• Dominic Thiem vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Ben Shelton vs. Taro Daniel
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Marton Fucsovics vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Marcos Giron vs. Hugo Dellien
• George Loffhagen vs. Holger Rune
• Matteo Berrettini vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Alexandre Muller vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Lloyd Harris vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Denis Shapovalov vs. Radu Albot
• Jannik Sinner vs. Juan Manuel Cerundolo
• Borna Coric vs. Guido Pella
• Quentin Halys vs. Daniel Evans
• Benjamin Bonzi vs. Harold Mayot
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Daniel Elahi Galan: monday
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Stan Wawrinka: monday
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Diego Schwartzman: monday
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles: monday
• Roman Safiullin vs. Roberto Bautista Agut: monday
• Alexander Bublik vs. Mackenzie McDonald: monday
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Taylor Fritz: monday
• Aleksandar Vukic vs. Daniel Altmaier: monday
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Oscar Otte: monday
• Mikael Ymer beat Alex Molcan: 6-3, 6-3, 6-4
• Jan Choinski vs. Dusan Lajovic: monday
• Casper Ruud (4) beat Laurent Lokoli (Q): 6-1, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
• Jaume Munar beat John Isner: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
• J.J. Wolf beat Enzo Couacaud (Q): 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Liam Broady (WC) beat Constant Lestienne: 6-1, 6-3, 7-5
• David Goffin (WC) beat Fabian Marozsan (LL): 6-2, 5-7, 6-2, 6-0
• Corentin Moutet beat Richard Gasquet: 6-3, 7-5, 7-5
• Novak Djokovic (2) beat Pedro Cachin: 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Hubert Hurkacz (17) beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas: 6-1, 6-4, 6-4
• Maximilian Marterer beat Borna Gojo: 7-5, 6-7 (8), 6-3, 6-4
• Andrey Rublev (7) beat Max Purcell: 6-3, 7-5, 6-4
• Jordan Thompson beat Brandon Nakashima: 2-6, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Lorenzo Musetti (14) beat Juan Pablo Varillas: 6-3, 6-1, 7-5
• Tomas Barrios Vera (Q) beat Sebastian Baez: 7-6 (7), 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (2)
• Aslan Karatsev beat Luca Van Assche: 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2, 6-4