[8] Michael Venus (NZL) and Nikola Mektić (CRO) v [WC] Lui Maxted (GBR) and Connor Thomson (GBR)

Lui Maxted and Connor Thomson may not be regulars on the ATP circuit, but have performed very well in American college tennis, so Michael Venus and Nikola Mektić weren’t taking the British wild card pair lightly when they played their first round doubles match at Wimbledon.  Thomson aced Venus to start to show that they…