Davydenko crashes to Becker

Fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko became the biggest casualty of this year’s Wimbledon so far as the Russian suffered a disappointing straight sets defeat to Germany’s world number 116 Benjamin Becker.

Davydenko’s 6-4 6-4 6-4 loss was his fifth first-round exit in seven appearances at the All England Club, although his best run had come last year when he reached the last 16.