Top seed Carlos Alcaraz made a flying start to his Wimbledon campaign on Tuesday as defending women’s champion Elena Rybakina recovered from a set down to reach the second round. On a soggy day at the All England Club, most of the action took place on the covered Court One and Centre Court. 

The sport’s new golden boy Alcaraz raced through the first set against French veteran Jeremy Chardy in just 22 minutes before breaking twice in the second set.