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First-round woe for Mimi on bad day for Brit stars
Western Mail
|June 30, 2026
MIMI Xu joined the list of early British casualties as she suffered a first-round singles defeat on Wimbledon’s opening day.
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The Welsh teenager was beaten in three sets by Australia’s Daria Kasatkina.
Xu lost the first set 6-2, but hit back in superb fashion to force a decider as she won the second set 6-3.
But former French Open semi-finalist Kasatkina upped her level in the final set, taking it 6-2 to move into the last 64 of the women’s singles.
Cameron Norrie was a shock first-round casualty.
The British number one, a former semi-finalist, was beaten in a final-set tie-break by American qualifier Michael Zheng after a four-hour marathon on Court Two.
Britain’s hopes of any singles success this year looked set to rest solely on Norrie’s shoulders after Jack Draper's withdrawal from the Championships, coming a day after Emma Raducanu also pulled out.
But the South Africa-born left-hander arrived at SW19 in poor form, on a five-match losing streak and without a win on grass in 2026.
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