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Your support makes all the difference.Wimbledon 2018 - day three: Order of play, prize money, how to get tickets, everything you need to know.
Today sees the second round begin at The Championships.
Serena Williams is in action on Centre Court, with Karolina Pliskova opening play against Victoria Azarenka. Carolina Wozniacki and Venus Williams are meanwhile in action on Court One, while Agnieszka Radwanska’s match against Lucie Safarova is not to be missed.
Roger Federer will of course be in action too – he takes on Lukas Lacko of Slovenia. Marin Cilic plays Guido Pella on Court One, with Andreas Seppi up against Kevin Anderson on Court Two.
Follow all the live coverage below:
Order of play:
CENTRE COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START
1 Karolina Pliskova (CZE) [7] 65 vs Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 68
2 Roger Federer (SUI) [1] 1 vs Lukas Lacko (SVK) 3
3 Viktoriya Tomova (BUL) 102 vs Serena Williams (USA) [25] 104
No.1 COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START
1 Alexandra Dulgheru (ROU) 77 vs Venus Williams (USA) [9] 80
2 Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 126 vs Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) [2] 128
3 Marin Cilic (CRO) [3] 33 vs Guido Pella (ARG) 36
No.2 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 John Millman (AUS) 45 vs Milos Raonic (CAN) [13] 48
2 Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) [32] 121 vs Lucie Safarova (CZE) 124
3 Andreas Seppi (ITA) 30 vs Kevin Anderson (RSA) [8] 32
4 Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) 85 vs Barbora Strycova (CZE) [23] 88
No.3 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 Katie Swan (GBR) 70 vs Mihaela Buzarnescu (ROU) [29] 72
2 Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) 22 vs Gael Monfils (FRA) 23
3 Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) 62 vs Stan Wawrinka (SUI) 63
4 Tatjana Maria (GER) 98 vs Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 100
COURT 12 - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 Luksika Kumkhum (THA) 109 vs Madison Keys (USA) [10] 112
2 Sam Querrey (USA) [11] 17 vs Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) 19
3 John Isner (USA) [9] 49 vs Ruben Bemelmans (BEL) 52
4 Katerina Siniakova (CZE) 114 vs Ons Jabeur (TUN) 116
COURT 18 - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 Lucas Pouille (FRA) [17] 41 vs Dennis Novak (AUT) 44
2 Kiki Bertens (NED) [20] 73 vs Anna Blinkova (RUS) 76
3 Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) [31] 57 vs Jared Donaldson (USA) 60
COURT 5 - 11:30 START
1 Ana Bogdan (ROU) / Kaitlyn Christian (USA) 43 vs Yingying Duan (CHN) / Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 44
2 Taro Daniel (JPN) / Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) 37 vs Antonio Sancic (CRO) / Andrei Vasilevski (BLR) 38
3 Dominic Inglot (GBR) / Franko Skugor (CRO) [15] 41 vs Marton Fucsovics (HUN) / Mischa Zverev (GER) 42
COURT 6 - 11:30 START
1 Mirza Basic (BIH) / Dusan Lajovic (SRB) 35 vs Fabrice Martin (FRA) / Purav Raja (IND) 36
2 Shuko Aoyama (JPN) / Jennifer Brady (USA) 51 vs Darija Jurak (CRO) / Qiang Wang (CHN) 52
3 Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) / Nicolas Mahut (FRA) [4] 17 vs Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP) / Marco Cecchinato (ITA) 18
4 Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Yifan Xu (CHN) [6] 49 vs Alison Riske (USA) / Olga Savchuk (UKR) 50
COURT 7 - 11:30 START
1 Anett Kontaveit (EST) / Monica Puig (PUR) 39 vs Nicole Melichar (USA) / Kveta Peschke (CZE) [12] 40
2 Matteo Berrettini (ITA) / Maximilian Marterer (GER) 29 vs 4 Roman Jebavy (CZE) / Andres Molteni (ARG) 30
3 Maria Irigoyen (ARG) / Carina Witthoeft (GER) 59 vs Kaia Kanepi (EST) / Andrea Petkovic (GER) 60
4 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) / Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) [9] 9 vs David Ferrer (ESP) / Marc Lopez (ESP) 10
COURT 8 - 11:30 START
1 Rebecca Peterson (SWE) 94 vs Donna Vekic (CRO) 95
2 Mackenzie McDonald (USA) 38 vs Nicolas Jarry (CHI) 39
3 Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) [25] 25 vs Gilles Muller (LUX) 27
COURT 9 - 11:30 START
1 Andre Begemann (GER) / Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 55 vs Pablo Cuevas (URU) / Marcel Granollers (ESP) [11] 56
2 Christina McHale (USA) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 29 vs Naomi Broady (GBR) / Asia Muhammad (USA) 30
3 Katie Boulter (GBR) / Katie Swan (GBR) 23 vs Lucie Hradecka (CZE) / Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) [14] 24
4 Elise Mertens (BEL) / Demi Schuurs (NED) [8] 33 vs Sorana Cirstea (ROU) / Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) 34
COURT 10 - 11:30 START
1 Robin Haase (NED) / Robert Lindstedt (SWE) 39 vs Ivan Dodig (CRO) / Rajeev Ram (USA) [10] 40
2 Sofia Kenin (USA) / Sachia Vickery (USA) 5 vs Nicola Geuer (GER) / Viktorija Golubic (SUI) 6
3 Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) / Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) 7 vs Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) / Monica Niculescu (ROU) [13] 8
4 Max Mirnyi (BLR) / Philipp Oswald (AUT) [16] 57 vs Julio Peralta (CHI) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 58
COURT 11 - 11:30 START
1 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) / Samantha Stosur (AUS) 3 vs Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) / Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) 4
2 Liam Broady (GBR) / Scott Clayton (GBR) 45 vs Frances Tiafoe (USA) / Jackson Withrow (USA) 46
3 Matthew Ebden (AUS) / Taylor Fritz (USA) 13 vs Peter Gojowczyk (GER) / Benoit Paire (FRA) 14
4 Maria Sakkari (GRE) / Donna Vekic (CRO) 53 vs Xinyun Han (CHN) / Luksika Kumkhum (THA) 54
COURT 14 - 11:30 START
1 Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 106 vs Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) 107
2 Adrian Mannarino (FRA) [22] 9 vs Ryan Harrison (USA) 11
3 Julia Goerges (GER) [13] 81 vs Vera Lapko (BLR) 83
4 Jay Clarke (GBR) / Cameron Norrie (GBR) 5 vs Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI) 6
COURT 15 - 11:30 START
1 Jonathan Erlich (ISR) / Marcin Matkowski (POL) 61 vs Jonathan Eysseric (FRA) / Hugo Nys (FRA) 62
2 Ivo Karlovic (CRO) 5 vs Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) 7
3 Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) / Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 21 vs Danielle Collins (USA) / Jessica Moore (AUS) 22
COURT 16 - 11:30 START
1 Ken Skupski (GBR) / Neal Skupski (GBR) 11 vs Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) / Damir Dzumhur (BIH) 12
2 Aljaz Bedene (SLO) 53 vs Radu Albot (MDA) 55
3 Belinda Bencic (SUI) / Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) 19 vs Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) / Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP) 20
COURT 17 - 11:30 START
1 Andrea Petkovic (GER) 90 vs Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 92
2 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 13 vs Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 15
3 Madison Brengle (USA) 118 vs Camila Giorgi (ITA) 119
4 Alex Bolt (AUS) / Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 7 vs Raven Klaasen (RSA) / Michael Venus (NZL) [13] 8
MATCHES TO BE ARRANGED
NOT BEFORE 17.00
Raquel Atawo (USA) / Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER) [11] 25 vs Xenia Knoll (SUI) / Anna Smith (GBR) 26
Luke Bambridge (GBR) / Jonny O'Mara (GBR) 63 vs Lukasz Kubot (POL) / Marcelo Melo (BRA) [2] 64
Ysaline Bonaventure (BEL) / Bibiane Schoofs (NED) 31 vs Hao-Ching Chan (TPE) / Zhaoxuan Yang (CHN) [7] 32
The Williams sisters on their way
A host of top names have fallen by the Wimbledon wayside but Serena and Venus Williams, with 12 titles behind them, moved ominously into round three.
Just as second seed Caroline Wozniacki was tumbling out, joining Petra Kvitova, Maria Sharapova, Elina Svitolina and Sloane Stephens through the All England Club exit, Serena was seeing off Viktoriya Tomova.
Serena, 36, playing in her second grand slam since giving birth to her daughter in September, was just too powerful for her Bulgarian opponent.
The seven-time champion raced away with the first set and although Tomova, ranked 135 in the world, hung around slightly longer in the second, Serena completed a comprehensive 6-1 6-4 win.
Serena, granted a seeding of 25 this year after maternity leave saw her slip down the rankings, told the BBC: "It was better than my first round so I'm happy I'm going in the right direction.
"I didn't move a lot but I've been moving a lot better than I was in Paris. How close to my best am I? I'm getting there, I don't think I'm there yet but I expect to get there, not only at Wimbledon but other tournaments in the future."
Should they continue in the same vein, the American sisters could meet each other in the semi-finals.
Day 4 - Talking points:
British hopes of Wimbledon success have been tempered by the absence of Andy Murray, and the last three remaining home players in the main singles events are all in action on Thursday.
It is a day loaded with eye-catching matches and storylines.
Edmund and Djokovic on collision course
British number one Kyle Edmund and Serbia's three-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic will go head to head on Saturday, as long as both win on Thursday. The prospect is tantalising and it is hard to see Djokovic having any trouble with Argentinian left-hander Horacio Zeballos, and providing that theory holds true it would leave Edmund to take out little-known American Bradley Klahn to get the weekend match on. It should be well within his scope, but Edmund has never reached the third round at Wimbledon before, meaning the 23-year-old is edging towards unexplored territory.
Is Kyrgios a changed man?
The Australian has made headlines for his mischievous, sometimes misbehaving ways in the past at Wimbledon and elsewhere. But he was good as gold in his opener on Tuesday, a four-set win over Denis Istomin. On Thursday he tackles Dutchman Robin Haase, a player he beat in their only previous meeting three years ago in Estoril. Kyrgios has the tennis tools to make a huge impact on grass, and might be wising up to the need to adopt the right attitude too.
First big test for Konta
Dominika Cibulkova is a player few seeds would especially relish facing at Wimbledon. The hard-hitting Slovakian can name Caroline Wozniacki, Agnieszka Radwanska and Eugenie Bouchard among her past victims at the championships, and she has a point to prove after being knocked out of the seedings when Wimbledon officials elected to promote Serena Williams into the top-32 pack. Johanna Konta will have her work cut out, and if the British number one comes through that will be a highly positive sign of what she might achieve this fortnight. Fellow Briton Katie Boulter, meanwhile, faces a tall order against Japan's brilliant 20-year-old Naomi Osaka.
Junior-senior
Ashleigh Barty and Bouchard both already have Wimbledon titles after winning the girls' singles in 2011 and 2012 respectively. Bouchard looked the most likely to step up and claim slam trophy success at senior level, only to lose to Petra Kvitova in the 2014 Wimbledon women's final. The Canadian's decline in fortunes and ranking since - from a high of fifth to her current 188th - has coincided with Barty going the other way. Australian Barty has soared from outside the top 250 at the start of last year to her current status as world number 17. On Thursday they go head to head. It could be rather special.
Some rain at last here at Wimbledon! Play has been suspended on all courts across the grounds. Alas, it seems appropriate to whip out this bad-boy again:
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