Seventh seed Holger Rune had his Wimbledon warm-up reduce quick as he crashed out of the Queen’s Membership Championships in a shock 4-6 7-6(4) 6-3 first-round loss to Australian Jordan Thompson in London on Monday.
The 21-year-old Dane secured the opening set after it was all sq. at 4-4, however Thompson stepped up a gear to degree the competition by taking a good second set to a tiebreak the place he placed on a medical show to drive a decider.
Thompson, ranked forty third on the earth, then raced to a 3-0 lead and made no mistake to seize the win over the Fifteenth-ranked Rune whereas additionally ending his personal five-match shedding streak.
Rune, a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon final 12 months, bowed out within the second spherical of the Australian Open in January and was knocked out of the French Open within the fourth spherical earlier in June.
Wimbledon runs from July 1-July 14.