Maya Joint has given Serena Williams her third ever first-round exit from Wimbledon, taking her down in three sets on Centre Court.

Joint came out blazing, taking the first set 6-3 in 35 minutes before Williams stretched the match out in the second to a tiebreaker.

The champion forcefully hit the tiebreaker to 6-6 and experience prevailed as she managed to gain an edge over joint at 7-6.

Williams remained composed in an extensive rally with a straight sets loss on the line – Maya eventually hit it out to drop the second set and take the match to a third.

The length of the match started to show on Williams as her endurance began to taper in the final set and Joint was able to execute the third 6-3 and advance to the next round.

Channel 9 commentator Brett Phillips joined Sports Breakfast this morning.

“Maya Joint in the occasion of the day to beat Serena Williams. Well done to Maya… she played some much better tennis beating Serena today,” he said.

“Serena was certainly targeting the forehand because Maya, her rise last year to be inside the top 30 was built on the back of one of the best backhands you’d see in tennis full stop. Rennae Stubbs knows all the Aussies in the box coaching Serena, certainly that was the directive – stay away from that backhand – and most of the unforced errors [for Joint] were coming off the Maya forehand throughout the match.

“Maya really stepped into the court and went after her shots. She couldn’t let Serena sort of push her around… she had to go with that mentality and she was able to break the back of Serena who seemed to lose her energy towards the back end.”

Of the thirteen Aussies to qualify for this year’s tournament, just five now push on to the second round.

Alex de Minaur was clinical in his match with Roman Burruchaga, taking him down in straight sets.

The Argentinian fought hard in the first set to take it to a tiebreaker, but once the Australian took the first it was pure domination in the following sets – 6-1 and 6-0.

“[He] really pushed in the opening set up against Roman Burruchaga… a very good clay court player, a very solid Argentinian inside the top 100.”

“He got an early break against Alex, but Alex got it back on his terms and then the next two sets were quite incredible, it’s not everyday you see Alex winning back-to-back sets 6-1, 6-0.

“He got to work, he was the aggressor in his match and when he ups the tempo and he is the dictator of the match, Alex can certainly weigh you down pretty comfortably.”

James Duckworth cruises through to the next round with a win over Talon Griekspoor in four sets.

Kimberly Birrell took out her match with Alina Korneeva despite a mid-match fright.

She dropped the second set 6-0 but was able to regain composure and take out the third 6-2.

“James Duckworth I thought was really solid today up against Talon Griekspoor – former world number 21.”

“He’s the oldest Aussie inside the top 100 at 34 [years old] and he still maintains a really healthy ranking for his age, he’s been durable.

“Nice work by Kim, she’s had some big wins this year taking a couple of really good scalps.

“She’d never won a match at Wimbledon… I thought Kim really held her nerve after losing the second set 6-0 which was a bit strange, but she was able to get things back on her terms pretty quickly.”

Maya Joint now takes on 29 seed Alexandra Eala, while Birrell will play number 17 Sorana Cirstea.

James Duckworth will wait to see who his opponent in the second round will be as Alex de Minaur prepares to face Frenchman Adrian Mannarino.

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