Wimbledon board member declares 'it's great' as Gauff and 22 other stars upset at SW19

Wimbledon board member Tim Henman is delighted to see how unpredictable the tournament is this year. Coco Gauff's shock loss against Dayana Yastremska meant she was the 23rd seed to be knocked out in the opening round. The world No. 2 won the French Open title last month but struggled to keep up the momentum.

Henman was co-commentating for the BBC during Novak Djokovic's clash with Alexandre Muller on Centre Court and he was told of Gauff's loss over on Court 1.

"In some respects, I think it's great," he said. "It shows the strength in depth, the fine margins that are involved and then you reflect back and think back about how the greats just dominated. They never lost in those early rounds."

Gauff also addressed the mass upsets, which saw her former doubles partner and No.3 seed Jessica Pegula lose earlier in the day.

She added: "I feel like historically Wimbledon always has so many upsets first rounds here, to be honest. I think it's always a topic. I mean, I think I would say really the quick turnaround most of the seeds are going deeper in Roland Garros, and then you spend like a long clay season, and then you have to come and try to adjust to grass.

"Like you said, some people play the week before, but it's like you come here. I think Jess won on Saturday. She's lucky that she was on this side of the draw to play on Tuesday. It's not the easy, quick turnaround.

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"Then if you go deep in Roland Garros, you're debating on do I rush and play that week, or do I take time and play the week before? It's a tricky thing.

"It seems like Carlos and Novak are the ones to figure it out. Even he had a tough first-round match. Yeah, I think it's just a combination of everything. I don't know if it's just the conditions this year. I really just think it's that in this turnaround, I think this slam out of all of them is the most prone to have upsets because of how quick the turnaround is from clay."

Seeds out on day one:

MEN'S

9th seed Daniil Medvedev

24th seed Stefanos Tsitsipas via retirement

16th seed Francisco Cerundolo

20th seed Alexei Popyrin

8th seed Holger Rune

32nd seed Matteo Berrettini

31st seed Tallon Griekspoor

WOMEN'S

20th seed Jelena Ostapenko

32nd seed McCartney Kessler

9th seed Paula Badosa

Seeds out on day two:

MEN'S

7th seed Lorenzo Musetti

30th seed Alex Michelsen

27th seed Denis Shapovalov

28th seed Alexander Bublik

3rd seed Alexander Zverev

18th seed Ugo Humbert

WOMEN'S

3rd seed Jessica Pegula

26th seed Marta Kostyuk

5th seed Qinwen Zheng

15th seed Karolina Muchova

25th seed Magdalena Frech

27th seed Magda Linette

2nd seed Coco Gauff