Charles Broom, Liam Broady and Arthur Fery are KNOCKED OUT of Wimbledon on difficult opening day for the British men - but Emma Raducanu, Lily Miyazaki and Sonay Kartal all make it to round two

Charlie Broom kickstarted a clean sweep of losses for the British men to begin Wimbledon, with Liam Broady and Arthur Fery both showing glimpses but failing to capitalise and ultimately leading a day of disappointment.

None of the trio of home hopefuls in the men’s draw were particularly fancied to spring a surprise but all three were left ruing costly errors in key moments, such as Broom’s 5-2 lead in the second set against three-time Grand Slam winner Stan Wawrinka.

Fery threatened to set sail and record a famous first main-draw win at SW19 – and looked in command when leading two sets to one – but hit some choppy waters and was eventually forced the distance and sunk by German Daniel Altmeier.

Then Broady, who shocked No 4 seed Casper Ruud in his best-ever career win to make the third round last year, continued the theme of woe and fell flat against Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp in four sets.

‘I am trying not to see it as losing, but learning,’ said wildcard Broom, the chess enthusiast facing former slam grandmaster Wawrinka. ‘(I need to) just use all the experience I've gained from playing him and on that court in front of a British crowd.’

Broom, 26 from St Albans, was playing his maiden tour-level match and was going toe to toe with Wawrinka in this week’s first installment of England versus Switzerland – the second to come in the football on Saturday.

The former biochemistry student had a commanding lead in the second set at 5-2 but lost the next five games and never rediscovered his best level thereafter, losing 6-3, 7-5, 6-4. ‘He's pretty good, huh?,’ he added.

Broom will be back later this week to play doubles with Fery, who also missed big chances. The French-born 21-year-old, whose father owns Ligue Un club Lorient and mother is a former tennis professional, struggled with fitness in his second-ever five-set match.

‘I didn't manage to close the match off,’ he said. ‘I think that kind of bit me. Fourth and fifth I was obviously struggling physically. He's got a lot more experience playing best of five matches. It’s a frustrating one because I felt like I was the better player on court for the most part.’

Broady followed a similar pattern in terms of fitness, though never replicated his best level that was one of the British highlights a year ago. The Stockport star has missed a chunk of this season with an ankle injury and also has suffered with migraines.

His ailments came after a freak accident saw him bang his head on his car boot when picking up a bunch of tennis balls which had fallen out. After his 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 defeat, the 30-year-old said: ‘I have found that with my migraines my eyes go a little funny.

‘They went a little bit funny this morning. Fortunately for me, I felt well enough to play. I'm glad I did. I am pleased. I am pleased that I got through the match and that I did manage to find some semblance of the tennis that I know I can play.’

‘I knew I had banged my head, but that's how I figured out that I had the concussion – it was the day after during practice I got a really bad migraine, and then all the other symptoms came on. I struggled the last couple of weeks with migraines and dizziness.

‘You know you don't want to make a fool of yourself and you don't want anything bad to happen on court, especially when you are taking a wildcard. I don't know if it was just the nerves and the stress that kind of overwhelmed me a bit.’

The British women had much better luck as Emma Raducanu, Lily Miyazaki and Sonay Kartal all reached the second round, although Heather Watson struggled and crashed out.

Raducanu took advantage of her slice of good fortune to claim a Centre Court victory on her Wimbledon comeback.

Raducanu had been preparing to face 22nd seed Ekaterina Alexandrova, a big-hitting Russian who reached the fourth round here last year.

But Alexandrova withdrew through illness on Monday morning, and instead Raducanu's opponent was Mexican lucky loser Renata Zarazua, who had never won a tour-level match on grass and was making her main draw debut here.

Zarazua, ranked 98, has an unconventional game and she made life very tricky for Raducanu in the opening set but the 21-year-old dug in well to secure a 7-6 (0) 6-3 victory and become the first British winner of the tournament.

'It was an incredibly difficult match,' said Raducanu. 'It took a lot of strength to get over the line. All props to her. In the morning you're not in the draw and then you're playing in Centre Court.'

Meanwhile, British wild card Miyazaki reached the second round at Wimbledon for the first time after crushing Tamara Korpatsch.

The Tokyo-born 28-year-old more than doubled her prize money for the year, earning £93,000 for less than an hour's work.

Miyazaki served superbly, dropping just seven points with the ball in her hand and not facing a single break point.

She also hit 14 winners to Korpatsch's three and made just 15 unforced errors in comparison to the German's 26.

A comprehensive 6-2 6-1 win over the world number 73 secured a second-round meeting with 14th seed Daria Kasatkina on Wednesday.

Kartal made it a hat-trick of British female winners on day one of Wimbledon with a career-best victory over 29th seed Sorana Cirstea.

Kartal had dropped to 298 in the world after a difficult 12 months due to health problems and had to qualify for this year's Championships.

A string of excellent displays at Roehampton last week booked Kartal's place in the main draw and the British number nine backed it up with a superb comeback win over Cirstea by a 3-6 6-2 6-0 score on Monday to join Raducanu and Miyazaki in round two.

However, Watson's 14th Wimbledon campaign lasted just one hour and 40 minutes after she was beaten in straight sets by her doubles partner Greet Minnen.

Watson, a wild card after slipping to 199 in the rankings, was the first British player in action on day one.

But the 32-year-old was also the first to depart after a 7-5 6-4 defeat to the Belgian world number 80. Having trailed 4-1 in the first set, Watson won four straight games to serve for it at 5-4.

The serve let her down badly, though, as Minnen forged ahead while Watson was admonished by her mother, Michelle, for being 'too lazy to move her feet'.

The second set went with serve until a double fault brought up match point for Minnen which she dispatched to send the former British number one packing.