Myriam Casanova, a Swiss qualifier who is just 17 years old and playing in her first Grand Slam, eliminated the 29th seed, Barbara Schett of Austria, in chilly, windy conditions on Court 3. It was easily the finest victory of her young career for Casanova, who is a member of the Swiss Fed Cup squad.

The vastly-experienced Schett, aged 26 and playing her eighth Wimbledon, never managed to impose her greater height and experience on the highly-promising Casanova, who gave indication of what may be in store when she qualified for her first WTA tournament in Budapest and then went all the way to the final.

Ending last year ranked 340, she has improved to 180 and is certain to go much higher as a result of her Wimbledon progress.

In the first and third sets, Schett wasted numerous break points. She lost the first set in 29 minutes. Six more break points were missed by the Austrian in the second set before she managed to capture the Swiss girl's serve to take a 5-3 lead and serve out to level the match.

Casanova had dropped just 13 games in her three qualifying matches and her current excellent form on grass proved too much for Schett in the deciding set, when she raced into a 3-0 lead and then extended it to 5-1.

The lone blip came when she served for the match but was broken. At the next time of asking, Casanova was calm, confident and victorious 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in one hour and 24 minutes.

Singles
1R beat Cara Black 6-2 6-2
2R lost Miriam Casanova 3-6 6-3 3-6

Doubles with Farina-Elia
1R beat Gagliardi/Schiavone 6-4 2-6 6-2
2R beat Dhenin/Loit 4-6 6-4 6-4
3R lost Rodionova/Weingartner 2-6 6-4 4-6

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Wimbledon 2002 gallery

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