Lucas Pouille led a slew of stars through the first round of Wimbledon qualifying on Monday with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Zdenek Kolar.

The former World No. 10 captured the hearts of fans at Roland Garros, where as the No. 675 player in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings he qualified and won a match in the main draw. The Frenchman will try to qualify again at SW19, where he made the quarter-finals in 2016.

Hyeon Chung, the 2018 Australian Open semi-finalist who has been battling injury in recent years, eliminated Dimitar Kuzmanov 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. It was a tough draw for Chung, as Kuzmanov two weeks ago reached an ATP Challenger Tour final in Bratislava. But that tournament was on clay, and the South Korean earned his first win of the year at any level on the Roehampton grass.

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Second seed Thanasi Kokkinakis was unable to advance. #NextGenATP Swiss Leandro Riedi stunned the Australian 7-5, 6-4. Another #NextGenATP player, Luca Nardi, ousted Jozef Kovalik 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Fellow Next Gen ATP Finals contender Hamad Medjedovic cruised past Pedro Martinez 6-0, 6-1.

Oscar Otte, who reached two tour-level semi-finals on grass last year, ousted Benoit Paire 6-3, 6-3 and third seed Fabian Marozsan, who upset Carlos Alcaraz in Rome, defeated Oleksii Krutykh 6-1, 1-6, 6-3.

Two 2022 Next Gen ATP Finals competitors also moved on. Top seed Matteo Arnaldi battled past Shang Juncheng 3-6, 7-6(0), 7-5 and 10th seed Dominic Stricker eliminated Steve Johnson 7-5, 6-4.

Although they did not receive a place in Wimbledon qualifying through the programme, ATP Accelerator Programme qualifiers Toby Samuel of the University of South Carolina and Johannus Monday of the University of Tennessee also advanced.