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Exciting Australian teenage prospect Alexei Popyrin has fired down four straight aces to finish off Pablo Carreno Busta in a hugely impressive Wimbledon debut.

Boom youngster Alexei Popyrin has lived up to the hype to surge into the second round of Wimbledon with a straight-sets statement win over Pablo Carreno Busta.

After stampeding through the qualifying draw, Popyrin outgunned the 2017 US Open semi-finalist 7-6 (7-2) 7-5 6-2 in his much-anticipated main-draw debut at the All England Club on Monday.

The 19-year-old signed off with four straight aces to wipe out Carreno Busta, a one-time world No.10, in less than two hours.

Australia's exciting teenage prospect next plays either Russian 11th seed Daniil Medvedev or Italian Paolo Lorenzi on Wednesday and will fancy his chances of continuing his charge.

Popyrin thundered down 15 aces in all, but was also hugely impressive at the net.

Showing the strides made under the grass-court tuition of 1987 Wimbledon Pat Cash, the young net rusher - who stands a towering 195cm tall - won 28 points moving forward.

"That's what we aimed to do," Cash said before the match.

"He needs to come forward and he's actually got pretty good volleys.

"His technique, they (Popyrin and his fulltime coach Phillip Wagner) have done a lot of work behind the scenes and it's all coming together."