Gille Simon ends emotional week for Thanasi Kokkinakis at Queen`s Club

London: French seventh seed Gilles Simon ended Thanasi Kokkinakis`s emotional Queen`s Club debut with a 6-4, 6-2 second round victory over the Australian teenager on Wednesday.

Kokkinakis has spent much of this week in the air after making the long flight back to Australia to spend a day at home with his sick grandmother before an unscheduled return to Queen`s.

The highly-rated world number 70 had jetted back to Adelaide to be with his family after the French Open, only to discover on landing that he had been offered a wildcard entry into the Wimbledon warm-up event in west London.

Kokkinakis got back on a plane, shrugged off the inevitable jet-lag and captured his first tour-level win on grass on Tuesday when he came from a set down to defeat France`s Jeremy Chardy.

But the 19-year-old, one of only four teenagers in the top 100, can now take a well-earned rest and catch up on some sleep after being brushed aside by Simon.

Next up for world number 13 Simon in the quarter-finals will be the winner of Wednesday`s meeting between Canadian third seed Milos Raonic and France`s Richard Gasquet.

Also in second round action on, Wednesday, French Open champion Stan Wawrinka, looking to extend his eight-match winning streak, takes on South African world number 17 Kevin Anderson.

After his shock three-set victory over Rafael Nadal in the first round, world number 79 Alexandr Dolgopolov of the Ukraine will try to advance to the last eight when he faces Spain`s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.