Novak Djokovic and Grigor Dimitrov advanced to the third round at Wimbledon after defeating Radek Stepanek and Luke Saville respectively.
Djokovic won 6-4, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-5) against the Czech while Dimitrov defeated the Australian 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the third round.
According to the BBC, Djokovic said that he and Stepanek practised together before Wimbledon so they know each other's games well, but added that he should not have complicated his life in that way.
Meanwhile, seventh seed David Ferrer and 12th seed Ernests Gulbis are both out having lost to Andrey Kuznetsov and Sergiy Stakhovsky.
Spaniard Ferrer was beaten 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-9), 7-6 (11-9), 4-6, 7-5 by Russian Kuznetsov while Gulbis lost 6-4 6-3 7-6 (7-5) to Stakhovsky, the report added.
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