LONDON — What a stark statistic for the nation of Bill Tilden and Don Budge, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi: It’s been 101 years since no men from the United States reached Wimbledon’s third round.
And the last time it happened, way back in 1912, no Americans even entered the oldest Grand Slam tournament.
By the end of Thursday, all 11 US men in the 2013 field at the All England Club were gone, with top-seeded Novak Djokovic accounting for the last one by beating 156th-ranked qualifier Bobby Reynolds 7-6 (7-22), 6-3, 6-1. Earlier in the day, former top-five player James Blake lost to Bernard Tomic, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5, while Denis Kudla was beaten by Ivan Dodig, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4), 7-5. Full story for BostonGlobe.com subscribers.
