Harriet Dart turned the first British casualty at Wimbledon after she misplaced in three units to Frenchwoman Diane Parry.
The British quantity 4 had a formidable build-up to her dwelling grand slam, reaching the quarter-finals in Nottingham and Birmingham, however fell 6-7 (4) 6-0 6-4 to Parry.
Dart, who reached the third spherical right here in 2019, was up towards it from the begin in difficult circumstances on Courtroom 12, the place the wind was inflicting points, as she fell 3-0 down in the opening set.
However she discovered her toes and levelled at 5-5 after a formidable lengthy rally led to her firing an outstanding cross-court backhand winner.
That appeared to show the tide as Dart went on take the set in a tie-break and the Briton would have been eyeing a straight-sets win.
However the wheels quickly got here off as Parry raised her degree with some heavy forehand hitting and breezed to the second set in simply 33 minutes with out letting Dart win a recreation.
The writing was on the wall when Parry broke early in the decider to take a 3-1 lead, however to Dart’s credit score she instantly hit again to remain in the match.
Nonetheless, the world quantity 96 struck once more at 5-4 to clinch her place in the second spherical and ship the first dwelling hope packing.
