Wimbledon 2018: Third seed Marin Cilic stunned by Guido Pella in five sets

Updated 05/07/2018 at 18:06 GMT

Guido Pella stunned No 3 seed Marin Cilic with a five-set win in the second round of Wimbledon.

Guido Pella of Argentina returns to Jason Kubler of Australia during their Men's Singles first round match on day one of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 2, 2018 in London, England.

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The Croatian, who lost to Roger Federer in last year's final, was cantering to victory on Wednesday evening, before rain stopped play, taking the first two sets 6-3 6-1 on Court 1.

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However, the world No 82 from Argentina, who had never reached the third round of a Grand Slam before, came right back into the match, taking the next two sets 6-4 7-6 (3) after play resumed on Thursday.

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The 28-year-old then took the final set 7-5, breaking when 6-5 up, on his fourth match point, to set up a meeting with American Mackie McDonald in the third round.

"Yesterday he was playing so, so good, and hitting the ball so hard that I couldn't do anything," Pella said. "So the rain helped me a lot."

RESULTS

No. 2 Rafael Nadal defeats Mikhail Kukushkin 6-4, 6-3, 6-4

Guido Pella defeats No. 3 Marin Cilic 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6, 7-5

No. 8 Kevin Anderson defeats Andreas Seppi 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 6-4

No. 12 Novak Djokovic defeats Horacio Zeballos 6-1, 6-2, 6-3

No. 15 Nick Kyrgios defeats Robin Haase 6-3, 6-4, 6-5

No. 28 Philipp Kohlschreiber defeats Gilles Muller 7-6, 7-6, 7-6

No. 31 Stefanos Tsitsipas defeats Jared Donaldson 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3

Frances Tiafoe defeats Julien Benneteau 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2

Gilles Simon defeats Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 7-6, 6-2

Thomas Fabbiano defeats Stan Wawrinka 7-6, 6-3, 7-6

Alex de Minaur defeats Pierre-Hughes Herbert 6-2, 6-7, 7-5, 6-3

Matthew Ebden defeats Stephane Robert 6-3, 7-6, 4-6, 6-1

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