Keothavong slumps to early exit
| By Chris Bevan |
 Keothavong paid the price for losing seven games in a row |
British number one Anne Keothavong saw her poor record at Wimbledon continue as she lost 7-5 6-2 to Patricia Mayr.
The world number 51, ranked 29 places above her Austrian opponent, had a set-point at 5-3 in the first set but collapsed and won only two more games.
Keothavong, 25, has now won only two matches in nine visits to SW19.
Elsewhere, fellow Briton Joshua Goodall lost 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 3-6 6-4 to Michael Llodra and debutant Dan Evans lost 6-2 6-3 6-4 to Nikolay Davydenko.
Goodall came closest to making progress, pushing Llodra all the way in a match that had begun on Monday evening.
The 23-year-old from Basingstoke, ranked 188th in the world, used his big serve to full advantage in the first set and was unlucky to lose the second in a tie-break before darkness fell.
When play resumed on Tuesday, Goodall went a break up before Llodra fought back to take the third set but he rallied to force his first five-set match.
The decider went with serve until Llodra led 5-4 and Goodall chose the worst possible time to falter, putting a backhand into the net to send the Frenchman through.
Evans never looked like causing an upset on Court Four against Davydenko, the 12th seed.
The Russian was too clever for the 19-year-old, who caused problems with his big serve but made far too many mistakes to threaten an upset.
Birmingham wildcard Evans was always playing catch-up in set one, despite clawing back from 3-0 to 3-2 down.
He led 2-0 in the second but could not hold on and was edged out in the third.
The first set lasted just 32 minutes but Evans then made a bright start to the second set, breaking after a brilliant retrieval forced an error from Davydenko.
However he was quickly broken back and the Russian wore him down to extend his lead.
A double fault and then a poor drop shot in the third set gave Davydenko a sniff of a chance at 3-3, 0-30 and he hit a superb backhand winner to break.
 Davydenko has never passed the fourth round at Wimbledon |
At 3-5 Evans hit another double fault at 30-30 and then put a backhand wide on match point to finish off a patchy display that saw him rarely put Davydenko under any real pressure and lose in an hour and 49 minutes.
Evans insisted the scoreline flattered his highly-ranked opponent and vowed to take heart from his defeat.
"If you look at it on paper, it's horrible for me but I think I did well out there," he said.
"Obviously I lost, which is not good, but it's good to find out what the level is."
