Tennis - Wimbledon - All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, Britain - July 1, 2021 Ball boy during the second round REUTERS/Paul Childs

LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - Highlights of day five of the Wimbledon tennis championships on Friday (all times GMT):

Top seed Novak Djokovic beat American Denis Kudla 6-4 6-3 7-6(7) to move into the last-16 at Wimbledon for the 13th time in his career.

Kudla threatened to take the match into a fourth set when he led 1-4 in the third before Djokovic forced a tiebreak, where the Serb fought back from 1-4 down again to advance.

Unseeded Hungarian Marton Fucsovics beat ninth seed Diego Schwartzman 6-3 6-3 6-7(6) 6-4 to move into the second week of Wimbledon for the first time in his career. He will meet Russian fifth seed Andrey Rublev for a place in the quarter-finals.

For Schwartzman, Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam where he has never reached the last-16.

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Tunisia's Ons Jabeur became the first Arab woman to reach the second week of Wimbledon as she rallied from a set down to beat 2017 champion Garbine Muguruza 5-7 6-3 6-2.

Russian wildcard Liudmila Samsonova earned her 10th straight win on grass as she stunned former U.S. Open winner Sloane Stephens 6-2 2-6 6-4 to reach the last-16 of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career.

Fifth seeded Russian Andrey Rublev booked a place in the second week of the tournament for the first time with a 6-3 5-7 6-4 6-2 win over Italian Fabio Fognini.

Second seed Aryna Sabalenka broke Colombian teenager Maria Camila Osorio Serrano's serve six times in an impressive 6-0 6-3 victory, booking a place in the Wimbledon fourth round for the first time in her career.

Eighth seed Karolina Pliskova, one of the four top-10 seeded players left in the women's draw, struck 30 winners in a dominant 6-3 6-3 victory over fellow Czech Tereza Martincova.

Former French Open champion Iga Swiatek beat Irina-Camelia Begu 6-1 6-0 in 55 minutes to move into the fourth round where she will face Jabeur.

Play on the fifth day of Wimbledon began on time under mostly cloudy conditions, with the temperature hovering around 19 degrees Celsius (66.2°F).

Reporting by Manasi Pathak, Rohith Nair and Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru Editing by Christian Radnedge and Pritha Sarkar

Source: Reuters

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