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#NextGenATP Moutet, Popyrin also book places in main draw
Wimbledon doesn't start until Monday, but Belgian Ruben Bemelmans has already made history at The Championships.
The 31-year-old qualified for an Open Era record sixth time at Wimbledon on Thursday, beating American Donald Young 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. Bemelmans had been tied for the qualifying record with Alejandro Falla, Ken Flach, Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Jimmy Wang.
Next for the Belgian: Reaching the fourth round at SW19 for the first time. Bemelmans made the third round in 2017 (l. to Anderson) and the second round in 2018 (l. to Isner).
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A pair of #NextGenATP players also qualified. Aussie Alexei Popyrin, 19, overcame American Bjorn Fratangelo 6-3, 7-6(6), 6-7(4), 7-6(6). Popyrin, who cracked the Top 100 of the ATP Rankings on Monday, has played in every Grand Slam main draw this year after playing only at the Australian Open last year.
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Top seed Corentin Moutet of France qualified with a routine 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 win against Aussie Andrew Harris, who won two boys' junior doubles titles with Nick Kyrgios in 2012 (Roland Garros, Wimbledon). The 20-year-old Frenchman made the third round in Roland Garros but will be making his Wimbledon debut.
Moutet is currently in seventh place in the ATP Race To Milan, which will determine seven of the eight players who compete at the Next Gen ATP Finals, to be held 5-9 November in Milan. The eighth spot will be given to the winner of an all-Italian qualifying tournament to be held just before the 21-and-under event. Popyrin sits in 11th place.
Italy will have nine men in the main draw after Andrea Arnaboldi and Salvatore Caruso qualified. Arnaboldi battled past Evgeny Karlovskiy 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3. Caruso knocked out Canadian Brayden Schnur, New York Open finalist in February, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 in only 84 minutes. Italy also had nine in the Roland Garros draw and at 2018 Wimbledon.
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American Marcos Giron is continuing the best season of his career. The 25-year-old made the third round at the BNP Paribas Open in March and now will play at Wimbledon for the first time. Giron beat Viktor Galovic of Croatia 7-5, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4.
Noah Rubin, 2014 Wimbledon boys' junior singles champion, also will be making his main draw debut. The American beat German Yannick Hanfmann 7-6(5), 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.
Seventh seed Jiri Vesely, who climbed to a career-high of No. 35 in April 2015, beat Tommy Paul of the U.S. 6-2, 6-3, 6-3. Vesely has twice reached the fourth round at SW19. Last year, he fell to World No. 1 Rafael Nadal in the Round of 16, and in 2016, Vesely lost in five sets to countryman Tomas Berdych.

#NextGenATP Popyrin, Moutet, Ymer also advance
Aussie Andrew Harris has never played in a tour-level match, but come Monday, he might be playing at The Championships. The 25-year-old reached the final round of Wimbledon qualifying on Wednesday, beating 17th seed Sergiy Stakhovsky 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Stakhovsky famously upset Roger Federer in the second round of the grass-court Grand Slam in 2013. Harris, however, has his own compelling background story. The Melbourne native reached No. 6 in the world as a junior and won the 2012 Roland Garros and Wimbledon junior boys' doubles titles with countryman Nick Kyrgios.

Harris ended his junior career after winning the Wimbledon title and then played collegiate tennis at the University of Oklahoma under coach John Roddick, brother of former No. 1 Andy Roddick. The Aussie helped the Sooners reach the 2016 National Collegiate Athletic Association final, falling to the University of Virginia Cavaliers.

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Harris will next meet top seed Corentin Moutet, who made the third round at Roland Garros. The #NextGenATP Frenchman routed American Tim Smyczek 6-1, 6-3.

Attila Balazs, 30, is one match away from playing in his first tour-level grass-court event. The Hungarian was down 2-6, 1-5 and saved two match points from 4-5 in the second set to beat Illya Marchenko 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-3. Balazs retired in August 2014 and started coaching tennis, but he felt like it was too soon to be on the other side of the net.

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“It was just too boring,” Balazs said in April, when he reached the Hungarian Open quarter-finals. “I said that I’m too young for coaching and felt the motivation in myself to make a comeback. I felt that I had nothing to lose and obviously now I’m very happy with the decision.”

He has put the hip injury that made him miss seven months last year behind him as well. Balazs will next meet Spain's Marcel Granollers.

In other action, American Noah Rubin, 2014 Wimbledon boys' singles champion, beat Ecuador's Roberto Quiroz 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 and will next play German Yannick Hanfmann. #NextGenATP Swede Mikael Ymer knocked out fan favourite Dustin Brown of Germany 7-6(5), 6-2.

Brown upset Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Wimbledon second round and, just two weeks ago, beat No. 5 Alexander Zverev at the MercedesCup in Stuttgart. Ymer, who qualified and won his first Grand Slam match at Roland Garros, will meet Austrian Dennis Novak for a place in the main draw.

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#NextGenATP Aussie Alexei Popyrin, the fourth seed, will face American Bjorn Fratangelo in the final round as the 19-year-old seeks his Wimbledon main draw debut. The 6'5” Popyrin, who cracked the Top 100 of the ATP Rankings on Monday, beat 27-year-old Mats Moraing of Germany 6-1, 3-6, 6-1.

Fratangelo, who played in the main draw in 2016, reached the third round by edging France's Quentin Halys 3-6, 6-2, 13-11.