• Verdasco: ‘We both fought hard but I was able to win’
Six years after hauling Andy Murray to the brink of defeat in the quarter-finals of the tournament in which the Scot ended 77 years of British misery at Wimbledon, Fernando Verdasco came from two sets down to put the current British No 1, Kyle Edmund, out in the second round on Wednesday.
It was a perplexing performance by Edmund – and by Verdasco, who looked resigned to his fate after an hour and a half, then cashed in on a steady decline by the Briton – seriously affected when his lingering knee injury flared mid-match – to win 4-6, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-4 in three hours and 43 minutes in front of a disbelieving audience on Centre Court.
Written by Kevin Mitchell at Wimbledon
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/03/kyle-edmund-fernando-verdasco under the title “Kyle Edmund blows two-set lead as Fernando Verdasco wins five-set thriller”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
