LONDON (Reuters) - Highlights of the third day at Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Wednesday (times GMT):
1714 HEARTBREAK FOR LOCAL HOPE EDMUND
Briton Kyle Edmund surrendered a two-set lead before going down 4-6 4-6 7-6(3) 6-3 6-4 to Spain's Fernando Verdasco in a marathon encounter lasting three hours and 43 minutes.
"I'm a little tired. It's never easy to beat a player like Kyle, even more here," Verdasco told the BBC.
"The match was complicated in the first and second set and I was just trying to stay in the match and keep fighting even if things weren't going my way but I was able to come back slowly point after point."
1615 KHACHANOV OUTLASTS LOPEZ
Russian 10th seed Karen Khachanov bounced back after losing the first set to beat 37-year-old Feliciano Lopez 4-6 6-4 7-5 6-4 after the Spaniard saved numerous match points, much to the crowd's delight at Court One.
Although Lopez, playing in his 70th consecutive Grand Slam, won 48 net points and smashed 62 winners, he was undone by a rising unforced error count that allowed Khachanov to progress to the third round.
1552 OPELKA REVEALS NBA "REGRET"
Reilly Opelka may be through to the third round at a Grand Slam for the first time but the American wishes he could have been a basketball player, as he towers over most of them.
Asked in a news conference why he was not in the NBA, the 21-year-old said: "Good question... I wish I was. I regret it every day ... that's pretty much all I'm going to say."
Opelka was asked to clarify his height. "I've answered this question, like, 150 times. It's the same as it was yesterday, and, I don't know. Close, 6'11", 7'0". Not sure," he said.
1540 HALEP FENDS OFF BUZARNESCU
Former world number one Simona Halep's first Grand Slam meeting with a fellow Romanian ended in victory as she battled past Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-3 4-6 6-2. The seventh seed takes on Victoria Azarenka next.
Estonia's Anett Kontaveit beat local favourite Heather Watson 7-5 6-1 while Viktorija Golubic ended Yulia Putintseva's run with a 6-4 7-6(3) win.
1447 FABBIANO FELLS GIANT KARLOVIC
Italy's Thomas Fabbiano, a diminutive 5ft 8in, who stunned seventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in his opener, endured a second five-setter in as many rounds to edge past 6ft 11in Ivo Karlovic 6-3 6-7(6) 6-3 6-7(4) 6-4 in a little over three hours.
1412 MEDVEDEV OVERCOMES POPYRIN
Daniil Medvedev fought back from a set down to beat Australian qualifier Alexei Popyrin 6-7(6) 6-1 6-4 6-4. The Russian 11th seed takes on David Goffin next.
1331 OPELKA DUMPS OUT WAWRINKA
Swiss 22nd seed Stan Wawrinka was dragged into a dogfight by American Reilly Opelka, who beat the three-time Grand Slam winner 7-5 3-6 4-6 6-4 8-6 in three hours and 13 minutes.
Belgium's David Goffin advanced with a routine 6-2 6-4 6-3 victory over Jeremy Chardy while Czech Jiri Vesely joined him in the third round by beating Pablo Cuevas 4-6 7-6(5) 6-4 6-4.
1312 PLISKOVA STROLLS PAST PUIG
Former world number one Karolina Pliskova, who warmed up for Wimbledon by winning the title at Eastbourne, continued her good form on grass with a 6-0 6-4 win over Monica Puig.
The Czech third seed set up a clash with Taiwan's Hsieh su-Wei who beat Kirsten Flipkens 7-6(3) 6-3.
1207 SVITOLINA THROUGH AFTER GASPARYAN RETIRES
Russian Margarita Gasparyan, who beat Elina Svitolina in the first round at Birmingham last month, moved towards another upset against the Ukrainian by taking the first set 7-5 before a leg injury forced her to quit while trailing 5-6 in the second.
Frenchman Benoit Paire also progressed after Serb Miomir Kecmanovic retired due to an injury while trailing 7-6(5) 6-4.
1120 AZARENKA SWATS ASIDE TOMLJANOVIC
Former world number one Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, twice a semi-finalist at Wimbledon, beat Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic 6-2 6-0 to set up a potential third-round clash with Simona Halep who meets Romanian compatriot Mihaela Buzarnescu later.
1010 PLAY UNDER WAY AT WIMBLEDON
Play began in bright sunshine with the temperature hovering around 20 degrees Celsius and a forecast high of 21C.
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar and Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Ed Osmond and Alison Williams)
