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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A recap of the action on Day 5 on Friday at Wimbledon 2016, including results, tweets, hot shots, photos and more.&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;h3&gt;Results Roundup&lt;/h3&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 Welcome back, Delpo! Playing in his first Grand Slam since the 2014 Australian Open, Argentina\u2019s Juan Martin Del Potro pulled off a huge upset to start the day on Friday, knocking out No. 4-seed Stan Wawrinka 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(2), 6-3. For Wawrinka, the loss marks his first before the fourth round at a major since the 2014 French Open. For del Potro, it\u2019s his first win against an ATP Top five player since he beat Rafael Nadal in Shanghai in 2013.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"Now I'm feeling so glad just to be playing tennis again. Of course, when you beat these guys, everything change in the good way,\" del Potro&amp;nbsp;said after the match. \"But I am still need time to feel 100% with my wrist. Sometimes I scared to hit harder with my backhand, as I did in the last game...\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I'm exciting to go far in this tournament. But anyways, I think I'm very pleased with my success at the moment.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Watch Wimbledon 2016 through the eyes of the Bryan brothers&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The last time Del Potro played on Centre Court at Wimbledon was three years ago, in an epic four-hour semifinal defeat against Novak Djokovic. He returned to the Grand Slam stage this year after a three-year absence and three operations on his left wrist.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"The crowd was unbelievable with me. The atmosphere on there was amazing,\" del Potro said. \"It's very nice just be on the Centre Court of this magnificent tournament. Is great for all the players.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI think I was focused on my game. I knew what I wanted to do. I was playing really well from the beginning, playing aggressive, serving well, staying with him,\u201D Wawrinka said after the match. \u201CI start to play a little bit between.&amp;nbsp;When I wanted to play aggressive, I was still hesitating a little bit.&amp;nbsp;I was a little bit slow to go to the net.&amp;nbsp;When I wanted to put the ball in, I wasn't clear with what I was doing\u2026.I start to think a little bit too much what to do.&amp;nbsp;That make[s] the whole difference.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wawrinka also credited del Potro for his strong play. \u201CToday was for sure tough to play him. He played really well.&amp;nbsp;I had some chance[s].&amp;nbsp;I could have won the match,\u201D he said. \u201CHe was serving big, doing good job with his forehand.&amp;nbsp; Couldn't really do what I wanted when he was slicing his backhand.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;10 American players storm into the next round on Wimbledon Day 4&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The meeting was the first match between two former Grand Slam champions\u2014Wawrinka has won the French Open and Australian Open, del Potro was the 2009 U.S. Open champion\u2014in the second round at Wimbledon since Marat Safin beat Djokovic in 2008.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the third round, 27-year-old del Potro will face No. 32-seed Lucas Pouille, who beat American Donald Young 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 on Friday.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 After dropping the first set, No. 1 Serena Williams rallied to defeat fellow American Christina McHale 6-7(7), 6-2, 6-4 on Centre Court on Friday. In a match that started with the roof open and was suspended due to rain, McHale played a strong first set to take it in a tiebreak. After Serena won the second set, McHale didn\u2019t back down, fighting all the way to the end, including an incredible, 25-shot rally at 4-4, 30-30 in the third set. The rally earned a standing ovation from the crowd.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But in the end, Serena fired three straight aces to close out the victory and advance.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Serena and Venus Williams avoid upset bids on Wimbledon Day 5&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CThere were times where I was down and out. I just kept fighting,\u201D Serena said after the match. \u201CThat's what I know I can do best.&amp;nbsp;I knew that I could count on that, rely on that.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She will next face Annika Beck in the third round.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;No. 8-seed Venus Williams fought off the rain and tough opponent in Daria Kasatkina on Friday, pulling out a 7-5, 4-6, 10-8 to advance to the fourth round.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Playing on No. 1 Court, the match was delayed four times by rain, including when Venus had match point at 7-6 in the third set.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI can't say that I've ever had a rain delay at match point. Probably not ideal,\u201D Venus said after the match. \u201CShe handled it well. She played smart. It was just, I guess, non\u2011stop action.&amp;nbsp;It was like a Hollywood script.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When they resumed, No. 29-seed Kasatkina, playing in just her fourth grass court match in her career, held serve to 7-7. But Venus finally broke the 19-year-old\u2019s serve and closed out the win after several rain delays, an unexpected deluge on match point and 2 hours and 41 minutes.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CThere was no rain. The crowd was just in an uproar. I didn't understand what was happening,\u201D Venus said of the unexpected downpour on match point. \u201CThe rain didn't come until quite a few seconds later.&amp;nbsp;She and I were both like, \u2018What is going on here?\u2019 She handled it well.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 No. 15-seed Nick Kyrgios defeated Dustin Brown in a highly-entertaining, but short, five-setter on Friday. The 21-year-old Aussie closed out the 6-7, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 win in only two hours and five minutes to advance to the third round.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 No. 1 Novak Djokovic left the All England Club on Friday evening finding himself in big trouble. At the end of Day 5 when the match was suspended due to rain, American Sam Querrey led the three-time champion 7-6 (6), 6-1. Djokovic has come back from 2-0 down four times and he will need to make it a fifth to stay on course for the calendar Grand Slam.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;Two top men\u2019s seeds cruised through their second round matches on Friday. No. 10-seed Tomas Berdych beat Benjamin Becker 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 and No. 12-seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated Juan Monaco 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 to advance.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;In the last match of the day on Centre Court, Roger Federer had no trouble\u2014and wasted no time\u2014dispatching of Britain\u2019s Daniel Evans, winning 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 in one hour and 26 minutes to advance to the fourth round. The win marked&amp;nbsp;Federer's&amp;nbsp;305th singles match victory at a Grand Slam tournament, only one behind the record set by Martina Navratilova.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Federer joins Venus and Carla Suarez Navarro as one of only three players that are into the Round of 16 as of Day 5.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 &lt;strong&gt;Scheduling notes: &lt;/strong&gt;After several delays and stoppages since the beginning of the day on Friday, play suspended on outer courts at the end of the day, with four second round matches still to finish: Zverev-Youzhny,&amp;nbsp;Stephens-Minella, Bacsinszky-Niculescu and Kvitova-Makarova.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after, the tournament announced that there will be play on Middle Sunday, the first time Wimbledon tradition has been broken since 2004. (It will be only the fourth time in Wimbledon\u2019s history there will be tennis on Middle Sunday, previously 1991, 1997 and 2004.)\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 &lt;strong&gt;More results: &lt;/strong&gt;Carla Suarez Navarro d. Marina Erakovic 6-2, 6-2; Annika Beck d. Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-2, 6-1; Barbora Strycova d. Evgeniya Rodina 6-4, 6-0; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova d. Yulia Putintseva 7-5, 6-1;&amp;nbsp;Svetlana Kuznetsova d. Tara Moore 6-1, 2-6, 6-3; John Isner d. Matthew Barton 7-6, 7-6, 7-6\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;h3&gt;Tweets of the Day&lt;/h3&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;h3&gt;Hot shots of the Day&lt;/h3&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;h3&gt;Quote of the Day&lt;/h3&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SERENA WILLIAMS:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; I've cracked a number of racquets throughout my career.&amp;nbsp; I've gotten fined a number of times for cracking racquets. In fact, I look at it like I didn't crack one at the French Open or Rome, so I was doing really good. I don't want to go too long without cracking a racquet.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You know, I'm on track. I try to crack a certain amount a year. I'm a little behind this year, so it was good.\r\n\r\n&lt;h3&gt;The Day in Photos&lt;/h3&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIMBLEDON DAY 5&lt;/b&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u200B\r\n\r\n&lt;h3&gt;Daily Data Viz&lt;/h3&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two men have reached the third round at Wimbledon without losing serve: Roger&amp;nbsp;Federer&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Milos&amp;nbsp;Raonic.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em &gt;This post will be updated.&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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