Alcaraz cruises at Wimbledon as win streak hits 20

After being pushed to 5 sets successful his opening match, two-time defending Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz enjoyed a much regular 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 triumph implicit British qualifier Oliver Tarvet connected Wednesday to scope the 3rd circular astatine the All England Club.

Alcaraz, 22, became the 3rd antheral successful tennis past to triumph 20 oregon much matches astatine some the French Open and Wimbledon earlier his 23rd birthday. The others are Bjorn Borg and Rafael Nadal.

The No. 2 effect saluted the show of his opponent, who had the location crowd's enactment passim -- a uncommon alteration successful ambiance for the instrumentality favourite Alcaraz.

"I conscionable emotion his crippled to beryllium honest, the level helium tin play -- [and his] archetypal lucifer connected Centre Court," Alcaraz said successful an on-court interview. "I knew astatine the opening I had to beryllium truly focused to play my champion tennis ... conscionable truly blessed astir my show today."

Asked astir his caller tally of occurrence -- he's connected a 20-match winning streak, the longest of his tour-level vocation that included defending his rubric astatine Roland Garros -- Alcaraz said the cardinal for him the past 2 to 3 months has been uncovering the "right mode to bask ... doesn't substance if I'm winning oregon losing."

Tarvet, a inferior astatine the University of San Diego, would beryllium owed to person £99,000 ($135,000) for reaching the 2nd round. However, per NCAA rules, helium cannot judge prize wealth supra immoderate magnitude that covers his expenses if helium wants to decorativeness his past play of eligibility successful college.

In different men's results Wednesday, Frances Tiafoe was among the Americans to autumn connected Day 3 of the tournament, losing to section favourite Cameron Norrie successful 4 sets.

Russia's Karen Khachanov, the No. 17 seed, got past Japan's Shintaro Mochizuki 1-6, 7-6 (7), 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 successful a hard-fought five-setter to scope the 3rd round. Fellow Russian Andrey Rublev, seeded 14th, rallied from a acceptable down to bushed South Africa's Lloyd Harris 6-7 (1), 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-3.

Also advancing was Nuno Borges, who became the 3rd Portuguese subordinate to marque the last 32 astatine Wimbledon successful the Open epoch (since 1968). He defeated Britain's Billy Harris 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7).

ESPN Research and Reuters contributed to this report.