Top seed and world number one Andy Murray will have a new opponent for the opening match of his title defence at the Aegon Championships on Tuesday after fellow Briton Aljaz Bedene withdrew from the Queen's Club event with a wrist injury.
The 23-year-old Australian, who has been on the Tour for less than four years, was drafted in as a late lucky loser after Aljaz Bedene withdrew in the morning with an injured wrist and was, Murray conceded, a worthy 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 victor in an hour and 43 minutes.
Also Murray has a tendency to bounce back from these slumps and disappointing results, like he did at Roland Garros, but the question is whether Murray can do that once again at Wimbledon with no match-wins on the grass this season.
Murray has yet to enter another tournament in a bid to get some match practice on grass, something both he and Novak Djokovic have done in the past, but that isn't a concern for Rusedski.
Murray was hoping to warm up for his Wimbledon title defense by winning the Queen's title for a sixth time, but instead he succumbed to an astonishing 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 exit against the world No. 90.
Grass is a very different surface and can take time to adjust to, but I had plenty of time on the courts in the week before and was practising well, so no excuses there.
Wawrinka, who reached the French Open final earlier this month but lost to Rafael Nadal, was beaten 7-6 (7-4) 7-5 by Feliciano Lopez after Raonic endured a 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (10-8) defeat to Australian wild card Thanasi Kokkinakis.
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His arrival was followed by a flypast by the world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, and France's aerial display team. He said Airbus still aims to deliver 200 A320neo planes despite some problems with one of the two engines available to clients.
However, despite the lean patch, the Brit is likely to defend the coveted Wimbledon trophy this year, believes former British tennis player Tim Henman.
Thompson is the first player to stop Murray breaking serve in a match since Roger Federer in 2015 and, after spending his career trying to eke out a living on the unglamourous second tier Challenger circuit, it was hardly surprising he rated the win as the best of his career.
Following the best win of his career, Thompson said: "I signed in for the "Lucky Loser" spot. That's always been the case for me".
"It's just when you're playing a lot of matches and winning consistently helps you make better decisions at important moments".
'Right now I am not playing as well as I was twelve months ago. I would have liked more matches here. I just wanted to go out there and enjoy it. I made some mistakes in the middle part of the tiebreak, which gifted it to him a little bit. Murray was less successful in the first half of 2016 so the impact of his stuttering form has been reduced but he will be more vulnerable from Wimbledon onwards as he will have far more points to defend. It's a grass court so it's quick.
'I hit a fair few aces and got a fair few serve winners and unreturnables.
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