Another quick hold by Arthur Fery, who is at a career-high world ranking of 114th at the moment and is inching closer to the top 100.

A win today will certainly help his cause.

French Open finalist Flavio Cobolli and two-time Grand Slam champion Coco Gauff feature in our video of Wednesday's best shots at Wimbledon.

Encouraging signs for Arthur Fery, who looks to have the better of Otto Virtanen when the points go longer than a couple of shots.

Trouble is that Virtanen picks up a lot of points with that huge serve and he completes the hold with an ace.

Otto Virtanen produces some more massive serves but when Arthur Fery can extend the points, he is getting some success.

Virtanen goes long on deuce to give Fery a first break point of the match, but Fery can't take advantage on this occasion.

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• Defending champion Jannik Sinner and seven-times winner Novak Djokovic both made it safely through to round three of the men's singles draw.
• World number one Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka were among the winners in the women's draw, but French Open champion Mirra Andreeva was knocked out by former Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova.
• Great Britain's Dan Evans played his final match as a professional before retiring - he lost in the first round of the men's doubles playing alongside Henry Searle.

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"Excuse me, can you just move that?" the umpire says to one of the ball kids.

The 'that' is a little bird hopping around on Arthur Fery's side of the court and the chosen ball kid sprints towards it, chases it away and earns a laugh from the crowd.

Another service game wrapped up with the minimum of fuss by Arthur Fery, who holds to love and walks back to his chair with a confident spring in his step.

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There's not a spare seat to be seen on Court 18, with fans flocking in to see Arthur Fery - one of only four Brits left standing in singles.

He's ranked 26 places higher than Otto Virtanen, but the Finn did knock out fourth seed Ben Shelton in the biggest shock of the men's draw so far.

A solid start for the Briton as he begins his bid to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time.

Otto Virtanen is 6ft 4in tall, seven inches taller than Arthur Fery, and his serve is going to be a big weapon for Fery to try to overcome in this second-round match.

Fery takes the Finnish player to deuce but Virtanen finds a couple of big serves to secure his first game of the match.

Also in action early on day four are Australia's Alex de Minaur and American Taylor Fritz, the fifth and sixth seeds in the men's draw respectively.

Fritz arrived in style for his first-round match against Dusan Lajovic, wearing an all-white blazer and trouser combo over his usual tennis attire.

He backed up his grand arrival with a dominant 6-3 6-4 6-3 win, but later revealed the outfit had made him more nervous than usual.

"You show up in a full outfit and get snipped in the first round, you kind of look stupid," Fritz said. "You look really stupid, honestly."

Arthur Fery sends down a double fault with the second point of the match, but that's the only point he drops in his opening service game.

An excellent start for the Briton.

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In the Open era, which began in 1968, there have only been two occasions when no British players have reached the third round of the singles draws at Wimbledon. They were in 1990 and 2007.

The first person who has the chance to stop that from happening again in 2026 is world number 114 Arthur Fery, who takes on Finnish qualifier Otto Virtanen.

Virtanen is ranked 26 places below Fery in the world rankings but caused one of the biggest upsets of the tournament so far by knocking out fourth seed Ben Shelton in round one.

The four British players left in the singles draws at Wimbledon play their second-round matches today.

Naomi Broady takes a look at their chances in her latest column for BBC Sport.

• Arthur Fery - first on Court 18 v Otto Virtanen (players warming up)
• Katie Swan - first on Court One v Madison Keys (13:00 BST start)
• Jacob Fearnley - third on Court 12 v Jaume Munar
• Jan Choinski - fourth on Court Two v Frances Tiafoe

Good morning and welcome to TV, radio and text coverage of the first Thursday at Wimbledon 2026.

The four players that carry British hopes in the singles are in action today, as well as defending women's champion Iga Swiatek and Alexander Zverev, who won the French Open last month.

Play is about to get under way on the outside courts and you can watch whichever match you'd like on the BBC iPlayer.