Serbia's Hamad Medjedovic put paid to Britain's final hope in the gentlemen's Qualifying competition with a 6-4, 7-6(6), 6-4 win over Billy Harris, fighting through to the main draw of his second consecutive Grand Slam.

"I didn't know I was capable of doing it in the first year because I didn't play so much on the grass," he said.

"I'm really happy and it means the world to me.”

The 19-year-old, who also qualified for Roland-Garros this year, will make his debut at the All England Club next week.

Asked whether he might relish the prospect of being drawn against compatriot Novak Djokovic, Medjedovic admitted that he'd maybe like to experience some of what Wimbledon has to offer first.

“I would love that. It would be nice, but maybe in a later round."

Harris had demonstrated his grass court abilities by winning his first two Qualifying matches - beating world No.161 Switzerland's Alexander Ritschard and then No.25 seed Hugo Gaston of France - but he couldn't keep that run going against Medjedovic, who is ranked almost 200 places above him.

British tennis' 'man with a van' was playing the biggest match of his career at Roehampton, but unfortunately for Harris - who used to sleep on a mattress in a van while travelling to small tournaments around Europe - he couldn't match the Serb's fast serve and remarkable intensity.

What a story it would have been if Harris - a 28-year-old from the Isle of Man ranked No.346 in the world - had made it through to the main draw of The Championships and been drawn to play one of the top seeds, pitching him against a member of the tennis jet set.

Unlike the elite players, Harris economises by stringing his own rackets, and apparently isn't sure exactly what tension he is doing it at.

Harris is not accustomed to playing best-of-five-sets matches; the previous two rounds had been best of three, as have all the other matches he plays at a lower level than this.

He had apparently had an extra sausage with his beans on toast for breakfast, but those added calories couldn't help him against Medjedovic, who kept on going for his shots, even after medical timeouts for a sore shoulder and blisters on his foot.

"I had a very tough match yesterday [beating Ricardas Berankis in three sets]," Medjedovic explained. "We played three hours and didn’t have much time to recover."