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CENTRE COURT - 1:30PM

1. Novak Djokovic v Soonwoo Kwon
2. Alison Van Uytvanck v Emma Raducanu
3. Andy Murray v James Duckworth

NO.1 COURT - 1:00PM

1. Mirjam Bjorklund v Ons Jabeur
2. Jan-Lennard Struff v Carlos Alcaraz
3. Angelique Kerber v Kristina Mladenovic

NO.2 COURT - 11:00AM

1. Cameron Norrie v Pablo Andujar
2. Bernarda Pera v Anett Kontaveit
3. Jannik Sinner v Stan Wawrinka
4. Maria Sakkari v Zoe Hives

NO.3 COURT - 11:00AM

1. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina v Hubert Hurkacz
2. Danielle Collins v Marie Bouzkova
3. Tamara Korpatsch v Heather Watson
4. Ryan Peniston v Henri Laaksonen

COURT 12 - 11:00AM

1. Casper Ruud v Albert Ramos-Vinolas
2. Kaja Juvan v Beatriz Haddad Maia
3. Belinda Bencic v Qiang Wang
4. Steve Johnson v Grigor Dimitrov

COURT 18 - 11:00AM

1. Jodie Burrage v Lesia Tsurenko
2. Enzo Couacaud v John Isner
3. Jay Clarke v Christian Harrison
Not Before: 5:00pm
4. Marta Kostyuk v Katie Swan

COURT 4 - 11:00AM

1. Tommy Paul v Fernando Verdasco
2. Camila Osorio v Elise Mertens
3. Martina Trevisan v Elisabetta Cocciaretto
4. Carlos Taberner v Reilly Opelka

COURT 6 - 11:00AM

1. Tomas Martin Etcheverry v Ugo Humbert
2. Clara Tauson v Mai Hontama
3. Tamara Zidansek v Panna Udvardy
4. Taro Daniel v Sebastian Baez

COURT 7 - 11:00AM

1. Anhelina Kalinina v Anna Bondar
2. Alejandro Tabilo v Laslo Djere
3. Oscar Otte v Peter Gojowczyk

COURT 8 - 11:00AM

1. Maximilian Marterer v Aljaz Bedene
2. Aleksandra Krunic v Sorana Cirstea
3. Daniel Altmaier v Mikael Ymer
4. Daria Saville v Viktoriya Tomova

COURT 9 - 11:00AM

1. Benoit Paire v Quentin Halys
2. Federico Coria v Jiri Vesely
3. Lucia Bronzetti v Ann Li
4. Yanina Wickmayer v Lin Zhu

COURT 10 - 11:00AM

1. Ylena In-Albon v Alison Riske
2. Rebecca Marino v Katarzyna Kawa
3. Maddison Inglis v Dalma Galfi
4. Alexander Bublik v Marton Fucsovics

COURT 11 - 11:00AM

1. Thiago Monteiro v Jaume Munar
2. Jule Niemeier v Xiyu Wang
3. Tim Van Rijthoven v Federico Delbonis

COURT 14 - 11:00AM

1. Adrian Mannarino v Max Purcell
2. John Millman v Miomir Kecmanovic
3. Astra Sharma v Tatjana Maria
4. Oceane Dodin v Jelena Ostapenko

COURT 15 - 11:00AM

1. Nikoloz Basilashvili v Lukas Rosol
2. Kaia Kanepi v Diane Parry
3. Dusan Lajovic v Pablo Carreno Busta
4. Shuai Zhang v Misaki Doi

COURT 16 - 11:00AM

1. Katerina Siniakova v Maja Chwalinska
2. Thanasi Kokkinakis v Kamil Majchrzak
3. Tallon Griekspoor v Fabio Fognini
4. Ekaterine Gorgodze v Irina-Camelia Begu

COURT 17 - 11:00AM

1. Frances Tiafoe v Andrea Vavassori
2. Caroline Garcia v Yuriko Miyazaki
3. Magda Linette v Fernanda Contreras Gomez
4. David Goffin v Radu Albot

Eh? I thought Swiatek was to hit the first ball? What was that all about, then?!

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 2:31 am Eh? I thought Swiatek was to hit the first ball? What was that all about, then?!

Yeah, weird. Was it ever officially announced? Makes sense for the backup to be the men's defending champ. Mark this down as a time Wimbledon broke with tradition and absolutely nothing bad happened. (So let's break some more, shall we?)

The defending men's champion always has hit the first ball on Centre Court on Monday, and the defending women's champion always has hit the first ball on Centre Court on Tuesday.

With Barty retired, the debate always was about who would hit the first ball on Centre Court on Tuesday.

jazzyg wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 5:19 am The defending men's champion always has hit the first ball on Centre Court on Monday, and the defending women's champion always has hit the first ball on Centre Court on Tuesday.

With Barty retired, the debate always was about who would hit the first ball on Centre Court on Tuesday.

that made sense in the days when Tuesday was officially 'ladies day' but now Raducanu would have already played on Centre court on Monday so the first ball on Tuesday has no value now..

jazzyg wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 5:19 am The defending men's champion always has hit the first ball on Centre Court on Monday, and the defending women's champion always has hit the first ball on Centre Court on Tuesday.

Once more, with feeling.

And it is First Ball ON CENTRE COURT. Wimbledon, and if I remember well, all the four slams, start play outside of their main court earlier in the day. At W, 11:00 am, on the dot. So there will be several players serving a first ball all over the complex.

jazzyg wrote:The defending men's champion always has hit the first ball on Centre Court on Monday, and the defending women's champion always has hit the first ball on Centre Court on Tuesday.

With Barty retired, the debate always was about who would hit the first ball on Centre Court on Tuesday.

Ah okay thanks.

Barty was throwing out support for the 2019 Champion Simon Halep which really made sense to me because she missed out on the opportunity to be the first lady to hit the ball on Centre Court in 2020 because it was cancelled because of Covid. Then Ash Barty retired. So it just seemed the right thing to go back to Halep but the Wimbledon officials did not want to do that.

I thought it would be Halep, particularly since she has a tough match with Muchova.

Maybe they prefer to have the opening player cruise to an easy victory, which Swiatek will do against Fett.

And...we made it 42 minutes into the tournament before the first rain delay

JTContinental wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:44 am And...we made it 42 minutes into the tournament before the first rain delay

I was watching the Riske match and she was rolling right along and now all I am watching is a Wimbledon tarp on the court. And to think I am losing sleep on my Summer vacation because of this.

Play resumes, Ons just cruised on the first set.
First set of the Ruud/Ramos-Vinolas is not over, and the grass behind the baseline is already showing wear and tear. Service boxes, pristine. How the grass game has changed.

Risks the first player in 2022 Wimbledon to win a main draw match.

jazzyg wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:50 pm Risks the first player in 2022 Wimbledon to win a main draw match.

I watched the Riske match and she didn't have much difficulty at all. She seems to have a really good game for the grass surface. I think they said she reached the QF before.