Fearnley is struggling to deal with Moutet in this second set, fighting to keep his deficit to the Frenchman to a single break in this set.
He held after a mammoth game for 5-2 but is now a game away from being taken to a decider.
Flo Clifford19 June 2025 14:48
Boulter leads Kartal in Nottingham
In other tennis news: at the Nottingham Open, two-time defending champion Katie Boulter leads fellow Brit Sonay Kartal 6-4 in their second-round encounter.
But sixth seed Magda Linette beat 17-year-old Mimi Xu, meaning only one Brit will progress to the quarter-finals.
Flo Clifford19 June 2025 14:35
Teenage British trio set for Wimbledon debuts as wildcards revealed
Teenagers Hannah Klugman, Mimi Xu and Mika Stojsavljevic will make their senior Wimbledon debuts at this summer’s Championships after being awarded main-draw wild cards.
Klugman and Stojsavljevic, both 16, and 17-year-old Xu are at the forefront of an exciting generation of British youngsters.
Xu, meanwhile, has beaten two top-100 players on grass this month and is close to breaking into the top 300 in the women’s game.
Flo Clifford19 June 2025 14:25
GAME AND FIRST SET! Fearnley 6-3 Moutet
Fearnley lashes down an ace and that’s the first set in the bag!
Flo Clifford19 June 2025 14:16
Jack Draper overcomes Alexei Popyrin to battle into Queen’s quarter-finals
Now the world No 6, a couple of spots down from his peak earlier this month at No 4, Jack Draper is in a very different position to a year ago. His rise has been stratospheric; he has spoken measuredly about taking it in his stride.
“Since I was a young guy, I have always wanted to be at the top of the game, and I knew eventually that [expectation and pressure] would come with it,” he said after his first-round win. “I feel confident, happy. I feel this is exactly where I want to be, regardless of any external noise.”
But it was external noise that he would in fact rely on Wednesday: the combined cheers and roars of 7,700 people inside a packed Andy Murray Arena, who collectively got him over the line in a hard-fought three-set win over Alexei Popyrin.
Flo Clifford19 June 2025 14:00
*Jacob Fearnley 3-0 Corentin Moutet
And Fearnley builds on that start, racing to a 0-40 lead on Moutet’s serve.
The Frenchman drags himself back to 30-40, but hands over the break as he skews a forehand wide.
Fearnley backs it up with another service hold, putting pressure on Moutet at the net and the qualifier folding, shanking the ball into the tape. A nice three-game lead for the Brit.
Flo Clifford19 June 2025 13:49
Jacob Fearnley 1-0 Corentin Moutet*
Fearnley serves first but gets off to a less than ideal start, hooking a forehand long to gift the Frenchman three break points.
An ace saves the first, and Moutet is then sent scrambling for a powerful forehand can’t keep it in play.
A brilliantly-constructed point by Fearnley almost backfires as he sprints back for a lob, but a booming strike has Moutet on the run and nearly into the splits trying to get it back in the court – but wide it goes.
A fine couple of smashes seal the hold, from 0-40 down. That should settle the nerves.
Flo Clifford19 June 2025 13:40
Jacob Fearnley v Corentin Moutet
The players are out on court at Queen’s and warm-ups are just being completed now. Not long until this one gets underway with a quarter-final spot at stake
Luke Baker19 June 2025 13:35
Jack Draper has proven his doubters wrong and is ready to win Wimbledon
To pinpoint the exact moment where British No 1 Jack Draper launched his ascent to the upper echelons of men’s tennis, you’d need only go back 12 months this very weekend.
Off the back of a disappointing first-round exit at the 2024 French Open, Draper broke his ATP title duck with a statement triumph on the grass in Stuttgart. That week, as he has since acknowledged, something clicked in his big-hitting, flamboyant lefty game.
A few days later, the Brit outgunned Carlos Alcaraz at Queen’s. While the Spaniard would go on to win his second title at SW19 a few weeks later, Draper slumped to a disappointing second-round loss to compatriot Cameron Norrie.
Kieran Jackson on why he’s backing Draper for glory at SW19:
Jack Draper has proven his doubters wrong and is ready to win Wimbledon
Born to tennis royalty, Draper’s supreme work ethic and ascent up the rankings in the past 12 months have been astonishing. As he begins his grass court season at Queen’s, Kieran Jackson looks at why he poses a serious challenge to Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner for the Wimbledon title
Flo Clifford19 June 2025 13:30
Jiri Lehecka beats Gabriel Diallo
Another good win for the increasingly impressive Jiri Lehecka, who beat fifth seed Alex De Minaur in the first round and has now cruised past Canadian rising star Gabriel Diallo to seal a quarter-final spot.
He triumphed 6-4, 6-2 to keep on rolling and will now face the winner of Jacob Fearnley v Corentin Moutet, which is next on the Andy Murray Arena.
GB’s Fearnley will hope to continue his recent rise in front of the home fans at Queen’s
(Getty Images for LTA)
Luke Baker19 June 2025 13:30