British teenagers Felix Gill, Jack Pinnington Jones and Arthur Fery overcame big rankings gaps to win their openers in Wimbledon qualifying.

Gill, 19, beat Serbia’s Danilo Petrovic, ranked 823 places above him,.

Fery, also 19, defeated 29th seed Prajnesh Gunneswaran of India, ranked 891 places higher.

Pinnington Jones, 18, overcame a deficit of 983 places in a victory over Brazil’s Joao Menezes.

They are joined in the second round by Anton Matusevich, who came from behind to beat 16-year-old William Jansen in an all-British encounter.

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