Wimbledon: Nick Kyrgios edges past wildcard Paul Jubb in five seats

Nick Kyrgios came through a five-set first-round Wimbledon thriller against British wildcard Paul Jubb as his fearsome serve, including 30 aces, eventually overpowered the 22-year-old 3-6 6-1 7-5 6-7(3) 7-5.

It was an unexpectedly testing examination for Kyrgios as the outsider kept his cool in the face of the Australian's usual verbal antics, but fell just short. The winner looked pretty flat in losing the opening set to a player whose career highlight was winning the US NCAA college title in 2019, and in his frustration he hammered a ball high and out of Court Three.

Kyrgios is a player the word "chuntering" was invented for as he seems to need to keep up a running monologue to get himself motivated.

He took great offence at a single fan uttering an almost polite boo, complaining to the umpire "You don't accept a hat with two logos on but you accept disrespect of an athlete?"

Kyrgios then complained about a line judge "reporting him" to the umpire. "Not one person has come here today to hear her speak," he said.

The chat appeared to energise him as he began to find his range in a strong second set but Jubb refused to lie down, being edged out in the third and going toe to toe to take the fourth on the back of a strong tiebreak. The Briton, in only his second Wimbledon appearance having lost in the first round three years ago, was ice-cool in ignoring any potential distraction from Kyrgios's running commentary, which included another extended whinge over a non-signalled net cord in the tiebreak.

It is now eight years since Kyrgios stunned then world number one Rafa Nadal to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals but he has never matched that since and has reached only one other Grand Slam quarter – in Australia in 2015.

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