Eugénie Bouchard laments third-round Wimbledon loss.

Canadian happy, but sad about third-round loss

LONDON • Eugénie Bouchard progressed further than she ever has at a grand Slam in her young career, but she was left lamenting missed chances that could have prolonged her run into the depleted field at Wimbledon.

Bouchard lost her bid for a spot in the fourth round at Wimbledon on Friday as the Montreal teenager lost to Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro 7-5, 6-2.

“This was an opportunity that I had that I lost,” Bouchard said. “I felt generally the whole match I had a few loose shots, loose errors, that I normally don’t make that I was making.”

The player who stunned Roger Federer in one of Wimbledon’s greatest upsets didn’t stick around very long.

Two days after eliminating the seven-time champion on Centre Court, Sergiy Stakhovsky fell to Jurgen Melzer in four sets Friday in the third round at the All england Club.

The 116th-ranked Ukrainian couldn’t replicate the serve-and-volley magic that stifled Federer, losing 6-2, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 to the left-handed Austrian. While Federer struggled with Stakhovsky’s serve, Melzer broke him six times.

“I’m just a little disappointed that I got so blinded by the game I produced with Roger that I kept going with the same game I played against Jurgen, which was just not right,” Stakhovsky said.

Stakhovsky, who called for the trainer and had his right ankle taped in the first set, kept coming to the net even though Melzer was zeroing in on his serve.

“I think I just played stupid,” the Ukrainian said.

despite the loss, it was a career-best grand slam showing for the 66th-ranked Bouchard. her previous best was a berth in the second round of the French Open earlier this year.

The 2012 junior champion at the All england club fought hard from 4-1 down in both sets but was unable to close the gap against the experienced Spaniard. The first set went well over an hour, the second was done in an additional 29 minutes.

“She returned really well, I knew that going in,” Bouchard said. “My serve wasn’t as good as previous matches.

“I’ll take lots of experience out of this whole week and try to learn from all the mistakes and take the good and the bad and just keep working hard.”

Doing everything right so far has been second-seeded Andy Murray, who trounced Tommy Robredo 6-2, 6-4, 7-5 under the Centre Court roof to cruise into the fourth round. The U.S. Open champion hasn’t dropped a set this week in his bid to become the first British player to win the men’s trophy in 77 years.

“I played my best match of the tournament so far,” said Murray, who no longer has Federer or Rafael Nadal in his half of the draw and remains on course to meet No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the final.

Advancing to the third round were fourth-seeded David Ferrer and No. 13 Tommy Haas. No. 15 Nicolas Almagro was knocked out by Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz in a third-round match.

Among the women, No. 7 Angelique Kerber was ousted in three sets in second-round play by estonia’s Kaia Kanepi. Kerber became the sixth player among the top-10 seeded women to go out.