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Federer: WTA Should Loosen Age-Eligibility Rule

"I've told the WTA they should loosen up the rules," says Roger Federer.
Roger Federer plays timeless tennis. The 37-year-old Swiss says it's time for the WTA to loosen its age-eligibility rule.

The eight-time Wimbledon champion knows about teenage prodigies. Federer once served as a ball boy for his friend, Martina Hingis, when the Swiss Miss was a teenage phenom. The pair later partnered to lead Switzerland to its first Hopman Cup championship.

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Federer, whose Team8 Management firm represents 15-year-old rising star Coco Gauff, said while he understands the intentions behind the rule are good, he's told the WTA it's time for a change.

"I understand the rule completely that they want the young players not to play too much," Federer told the media following his 6-1, 7-6 (3), 6-2, Wimbledon second-round win over Jay Clarke. "I've told the WTA they should loosen up the rules. I loved seeing Hingis doing what she did at a young age."

The WTA age-eligibility rule states: "Between the date of a player’s 15th birthday and the day before her 16th birthday, a player may participate in a maximum of 10 professional tennis Tournaments; plus the WTA Finals or WTA Elite Trophy (if she qualifies); plus Fed Cup."

The rule was initially designed to protect teenagers from over-playing and suffering burn-out. Some say it was created in response to Jennifer Capriati's issues after her initial teen-age success.

The second-seeded Swiss says his business connection to Gauff hasn't influenced his stance, he just believes limiting the number of tournaments teenagers can play puts more pressure on the events they do play.

"This is not me being involved in any shape or form as Team8 through Coco," Federer said. "I try to give her as much advice as I can through Team8. I think it would be nice, you know, if they could play more. I feel like it puts in some ways extra pressure on them every tournament they play.

"It's like their week, this is now where I finally am allowed to play, I have to do well, right? I'm not sure if it's maybe to some extent counterproductive."

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Federer favors allowing teenagers to play more tournaments and advocates expanding the WTA's mentoring program as an aid to young players.

"They could maybe do a mentoring system that there is maybe still a rule about how many tournaments they're allowed to play, but maybe it should be more, in my opinion," Federer said. "Then the mentors should come in, the legends like Billie Jean or Chris Evert, Navratilova, others, maybe speak to the parents, the coaches, the player for that matter, and really, like, educate them so they don't fizzle out.

"Maybe your best time, and your best time is from 14 to 20 for some reason. It's not like for everybody else from 20 to 30. So in a way you take away that opportunity, you know. Some want to have kids maybe at 24. At least you had a strong career for 10 years, from 14 to 24. I don't know. It's up to debate. I don't have the perfect solution. I see why they did it, because we've had the history of some tough parents out there. But at the same time you're also increasing the pressure for that player each week to produce." 

Photo credit: Coco Gauff Instagram

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Tomic Fined for Lack of Effort in First-Round Wimbledon Loss

The Aussie is in the news again, and it's not good news.


Bernard Tomic is in the news again. And, once again, the news is not good.

The controversial Aussie was fined £45,000 ($56,000) for his lack of effort against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga during his first-round loss, which lasted only 58 minutes.

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Here’s the statement from the All England Club:

“It is the opinion of the Referee that the performance of Bernard Tomic in his first round match against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga did not meet the required professional standards, and therefore he has been fined the maximum amount of £45,000 which will be deducted from prize money.”

After the match Tomic was questioned about his effort by reporters and said the following: “I think I played as best as I could. It's just I played terrible. And he served 24 aces.”

It's not the first time that Tomic has been fined for lack of effort at Wimbledon. He was fined 11,000 for his effort against Mischa Zverev in the first round in 2017.

"This is my 8th Wimbledon or 9th I think," he said. "I'm still 24, and it's tough to find motivation, you know. Really, me being out there on the court, to be honest with you, I just couldn't find any motivation."

The Aussie has the right to appeal this judgement.

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Azarenka on Mixed Doubles: Pissed Andy Didn’t Call Her

After reaching the final with Jamie Murray last year, Azarenka was expecting the call from Andy that never came.


Victoria Azarenka advanced to the third round of the singles draw and the second round of the singles draw on Day 3 at Wimbledon, but the former World No.1 says she’s not playing mixed at SW19 in 2019.

And she’s pissed.

Asked about why she isn’t laying mixed this year after reaching the final in 2018 alongside Jamie Murray, Azarenka said she’s not happy about the fact that Andy Murray didn’t pick her.

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“Well, Andy Murray didn't ask me to play,” she said with a smile. “Kind of pissed about that.”

Azarenka, who is a two-time mixed doubles major champion, says she thought her run with Jamie might have given her some clout with the family.

No such luck.


“Actually, no, that's okay,” she said. “I was hoping with the success what I did with Jamie last year I was going to be honored to get asked, but whatever.”

On a more serious note, Azarenka reflected on how important playing the mixed was for her game last year. Just getting the matches helped her start to find her rhythm on the court again.

“Last year was fun, because for me, at that time of my career it was important to get just any matches: singles, doubles, mixed doubles,” she said. “It was important to be on the court and to get the practice and to have that competitive spirit and competitive, again, like, opportunities.”

She later tipped the newly formed team of Andy Murray and Serena Williams as basically can’t miss.

“I mean, good luck to everybody else,” she said. “It's going to be a tough, tough, tough one to beat, you know. They both take it seriously. But I feel like it's going to be just a pleasure for people to watch. You know, it's going to be historic. So I'll be definitely watching, as w

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Toughest Wimbledon Mixed Draw Ever?

The Williams sisters could square off in the Wimbledon mixed doubles field.
The newly-minuted SerMur dream team of former world No. 1 superstars Serena Williams and Andy Murray may well be the most highly-anticipated mixed doubles pair in Wimbledon history.

They aren't the only former Wimbledon champions in a loaded mixed field that some are calling the toughest mixed doubles field in Wimbledon history.

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Reigning US Open mixed doubles champions Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands and five-time Wimbledon singles champion Venus Williams and Australian Open quarterfinalist Frances Tiafoe are among the other notable teams in the field.

Henri Kontinen and Britain's Heather Watson, the 2016 Wimbledon mixed doubles champion, are another prominent team in a field that features Great Britain's Jay Clarke partnering 15-year-old Coco Gauff, who stunned the 39-year-old Venus Williams in her singles opener. Clarke and Gauff face veteran Robert Lindstedt and 2017 Roland Garros singles champion Jelena Ostapenko

Buzz is already building for perhaps the most-highly anticipated mixed tandem since John McEnroe and Steffi Graf joined forces at Wimbledon.

"Yeah, it's brilliant," Watson said. "Doubles I'd say is a completely different sport to singles. It's a very different game. That's why you see so many doubles specialists.

"It's great that (Andy Murray is) playing, in general. That's so positive for the game. I think it will be really exciting to watch him play with Serena."

Milos Raonic suggests anything short of a SerMur title run could be deflating for fans. 

"I think it's one of those things that's either going to turn out incredibly well and be very exciting or it might sort of come up short," Raonic said. "I think people are expecting a lot from the two of them, especially with Andy already winning Queen's, playing well in the doubles matches.

"Serena, I believe, has won all the doubles with her sister and has won I believe most, maybe she's just missing one in the mixed in Australia. But she's won here before in mixed. So I think there is a lot expected of them. I think anything short of them winning, people might feel like they came up short."

While the Andy Murray and Serena Williams team will attract world-wide attention, Jamie Murray and Mattek-Sands, whose also covering Wimbledon as an analyst for ESPN, may well be the team to beat. Jamie Murray partnered Jelena Jankovic to the 2007 Wimbledon mixed title then repeated the feat a decade later joining forces with Hall of Famer Martina Hingis.

"We had good success at the US Open last year," Jamie Murray told British GQ. "In the last two Wimbledons I’ve won it with Martina Hingis and reached the final with Victoria Azarenka, so it’s obviously an event I’ve done well in.

"It’s always fun to play mixed; it’s a bit less stressful than the men’s doubles. But everyone that enters always wants to do well and I’ve been fortunate enough to play with some really good partners in the last couple of years, and again this year."

Asked if he's given brother and sometime doubles partner Andy Murray any advice, Jamie Murray told GQ: "Not really. Sometimes I’ll give him some pointers if I feel that he needs it, but whether he listens or not is a different story."

In January, Tiafoe joined forces with Serena Williams in a high-profile Hopman Cup mixed doubles showdown vs. Switzerland's Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic that gained global attention bringing two of the greatest players of all-time together.

Mixed doubles should have a major spotlight at Wimbledon this month.

Given 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams' quest to equal 24-time major winner Margaret Court's all-time Grand Slam singles record and the fact Andy Murray is partnering Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the men's doubles draw, it's unclear how much time Serena and Andy will have to practice together.

Still, the fact seven-time singles champion Serena and two-time men's champion Andy Murray have combined to claim nine Wimbledon singles crowns should provide the pair a comfort level.

Additionally, given the pair's popularity it is likely their matches will be staged on either Centre Court or Court No. 1, which can be unnerving for opponents who typically play mixed matches on the outer courts.

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Serena Williams won the 1998 Wimbledon mixed crown with the beast of Belarus Max Mirnyi.

Fourteen years later, Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka defeated Andy Murray and Laura Robson, 2-6, 6-3, 10-8, to capture the Olympic mixed doubles gold medal at the 2012 Olympic tennis tournament staged at Wimbledon. 

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Wimbledon Day 3 Schedule

Second round action begins on Wednesday at the AELTC. THE CHAMPIONSHIPS, WIMBLEDON 2019

INTENDED ORDER OF PLAY FOR DAY 3 WEDNESDAY 3 JULY

CENTRE COURT – 1:00PM

1. Monica Puig v Karolina Pliskova
2. Kyle Edmund v Fernando Verdasco
3. Novak Djokovic v Denis Kudla

NO.1 COURT – 1:00PM

1. Heather Watson v Anett Kontaveit
2. Karen Khachanov v Feliciano Lopez
3. Caroline Wozniacki v Veronika Kudermetova

NO.2 COURT – 11:00AM

1. Stan Wawrinka v Reilly Opelka
2. Simona Halep v Mihaela Buzarnescu
3. Kevin Anderson v Janko Tipsarevic
4. Cori Gauff v Magdalena Rybarikova

NO.3 COURT – 11:00AM

1. Elina Svitolina v Margarita Gasparyan
2. Robin Haase v Milos Raonic
3. Felix Auger-Aliassime v Corentin Moutet
4. Madison Keys v Polona Hercog

COURT 12 – 11:00AM

1. Victoria Azarenka v Ajla Tomljanovic
2. Daniil Medvedev v Alexei Popyrin
3. Andreas Seppi v Guido Pella

Not Before: 6:00pm

4. Danielle Collins v Anastasija Sevastova

COURT 18 – 11:00AM

1. Su-Wei Hsieh v Kirsten Flipkens
2. Jeremy Chardy v David Goffin
3. Sofia Kenin v Dayana Yastremska

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4. Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan / Purav Raja v Lleyton Hewitt / Jordan Thompson

COURT 4 – 11:00AM

1. Shuai Peng / Zhaoxuan Yang v Anna-Lena Friedsam / Laura Siegemund
2. Desirae Krawczyk / Giuliana Olmos v Alexa Guarachi / Sabrina Santamaria
3. Ricardas Berankis / Marton Fucsovics v Nikola Mektic / Franko Skugor
4. Jonathan Erlich / Artem Sitak v Maximo Gonzalez / Horacio Zeballos

COURT 5 – 11:00AM

1. Freya Christie / Katie Swan v Greet Minnen / Alison Van Uytvanck
2. Naiktha Bains / Naomi Broady v Barbora Krejcikova / Katerina Siniakova
3. Oliver Marach / Jurgen Melzer v Cheng-Peng Hsieh / Christopher Rungkat
4. Luke Bambridge / Jonny O'Mara v Raven Klaasen / Michael Venus

COURT 6 – 11:00AM

1. Sorana Cirstea / Galina Voskoboeva v Sarah Beth Grey / Eden Silva
2. Alex De Minaur / Matt Reid v Federico Delbonis / Andres Molteni
3. Kirsten Flipkens / Johanna Larsson v Belinda Bencic / Viktoria Kuzmova

COURT 7 – 11:00AM

1. Timea Babos / Kristina Mladenovic v Jessica Pegula / Maria Sanchez
2. Lukasz Kubot / Marcelo Melo v Ben McLachlan / Jan-Lennard Struff
3. Kateryna Kozlova / Arina Rodionova v Darija Jurak / Katarina Srebotnik

COURT 8 – 11:00AM

1. Hao-Ching Chan / Latisha Chan v Harriet Dart / Katy Dunne
2. Jaume Munar / Cameron Norrie v Dominic Inglot / Austin Krajicek
3. Filip Krajinovic / Dusan Lajovic v Matthew Ebden / Vasek Pospisil
4. Timea Bacsinszky / Bernarda Pera v Aliaksandra Sasnovich / Lesia Tsurenko

COURT 9 – 11:00AM

1. Irina Bara / Magda Linette v Nicole Melichar / Kveta Peschke
2. Ons Jabeur / Fanny Stollar v Gabriela Dabrowski / Yifan Xu
3. Radu Albot / Malek Jaziri v Rajeev Ram / Joe Salisbury
4. Sander Gille / Joran Vliegen v Guillermo Duran / Juan Ignacio Londero

COURT 11 – 11:00AM

1. Anna Blinkova / Yafan Wang v Nao Hibino / Miyu Kato
2. Natela Dzalamidze / Cornelia Lister v Elise Mertens / Aryna Sabalenka
3. Jack Draper / Paul Jubb v Juan Sebastian Cabal / Robert Farah
4. Mate Pavic / Bruno Soares v Sander Arends / Matwe Middelkoop

COURT 14 – 11:00AM

1. Marie Bouzkova v Maria Sakkari
2. Ivo Karlovic v Thomas Fabbiano
3. Marcel Granollers v Ugo Humbert
4. Anna-Lena Groenefeld / Demi Schuurs v Monique Adamczak / Ellen Perez

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COURT 15 – 11:00AM

1. Benoit Paire v Miomir Kecmanovic
2. Viktorija Golubic v Yulia Putintseva
3. Ken Skupski / John-Patrick Smith v Jay Clarke / James Ward

COURT 16 – 11:00AM

1. Pablo Cuevas v Jiri Vesely
2. Steve Darcis v Roberto Bautista Agut
3. Yanina Wickmayer v Shuai Zhang

Not Before: 6:00pm

4. Petra Martic v Anastasia Potapova

COURT 17 – 11:00AM

1. Madison Brengle v Karolina Muchova
2. Leonardo Mayer v Hubert Hurkacz
3. Lidziya Marozava / Storm Sanders v Victoria Azarenka / Ashleigh Barty
4. Marcelo Demoliner / Divij Sharan v Kevin Krawietz / Andreas Mies

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Not Before: 5:30pm

1. Lloyd Harris / Casper Ruud v Marcelo Arevalo / Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela

Not Before: 5:30pm

2. Leander Paes / Benoit Paire v Alexander Bublik / Mikhail Kukushkin

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Wawrinka Finding Form on Wimbledon’s Grass in 2019

The Swiss says he's feeling better than ever on the surface.


Stan Wawrinka isn’t exactly known for his grass prowess, but the two-time Wimbledon quarter-finalist isn’t exactly a slouch on the surface either. That said, he hasn’t been past the second round at Wimbledon since 2015.

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But a few years removed from his double knee surgery, Wawrinka could be ready to make some big strides on grass. The World No.19 eased past Ruben Bemelmans in straight sets on Monday to book a second-round clash with American Reilly Opelka.

Afterwards Wawrinka talked about the subtle adaptations he has to make in order to become a better player on the grass.

“I think it's more adaptation,” he said. “You need to make quicker decision on the grass. You need to play not more risky, but you cannot just take your time like I can do on the clay court, really put my shot there, make some long rallies.”

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Wawrinka, who has hired Dani Vallverdu to work alongside his longtime coach Magnus Norman for the grass season, says that part of the process is accepting that things move faster on the grass.

“You need to accept and get through the frustration of going a little bit against my [normal] style or the way I want to play,” he said. “That's the little things we are doing. There is some small exercise for the technique, for the games that you play more on the grass court.”

He added: “At the end of the day, it's not a lot of big change technique-wise,” he said. “It's just about the way or the shot selection you are taking on the grass court.”

Wimbledon is the only major that Wawrinka has yet to win, but he believes he can be headed for a deep run in 2019.

“I do believe that this year I'm playing well, I playing the best I ever played on grass court. For sure I am having a tough next match. Every match is difficult. I can go out the next round. But I believe if I enter the court, I can beat anybody.”

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Wimbledon Day 2 Schedule

The quarter of death on the top half of the women's side gets it rolling on Day 2 of Wimbledon.

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INTENDED ORDER OF PLAY FOR DAY 2 TUESDAY 2 JULY

CENTRE COURT – 1:00PM

1. Tatjana Maria v Angelique Kerber
2. Lloyd Harris v Roger Federer
3. Serena Williams v Giulia Gatto-Monticone

NO.1 COURT – 1:00PM

1. Ashleigh Barty v Saisai Zheng
2. Ana Bogdan v Johanna Konta
3. Yuichi Sugita v Rafael Nadal

NO.2 COURT 11:00 AM

1. Sloane Stephens v Timea Bacsinszky
2. Dominic Thiem v Sam Querrey
3. Maria Sharapova v Pauline Parmentier
4. Casper Ruud v John Isner

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NO.3 COURT – 11:00AM

1. Nick Kyrgios v Jordan Thompson
2. Beatriz Haddad Maia v Garbine Muguruza
3. Ons Jabeur v Petra Kvitova
4. Marin Cilic v Adrian Mannarino

COURT 12 – 11:00AM

1. Kei Nishikori v Thiago Monteiro
2. Laura Siegemund v Katie Swan
3. Bernard Tomic v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Not Before: 6:00pm

4. Kiki Bertens v Mandy Minella

COURT 18 – 11:00AM

1. Federico Delbonis v Daniel Evans
2. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova v Belinda Bencic
3. Carla Suarez Navarro v Samantha Stosur
4. Frances Tiafoe v Fabio Fognini

COURT 4 – 11:00AM

1. Ekaterina Alexandrova v Katerina Siniakova
2. Gilles Simon v Salvatore Caruso
3. Jan-Lennard Struff v Radu Albot

COURT 5 – 11:00AM

1. Barbora Strycova v Lesia Tsurenko
2. Kateryna Kozlova v Lauren Davis
3. Dominik Koepfer v Filip Krajinovic
4. Pablo Andujar v Mikhail Kukushkin

COURT 6 – 11:00AM

1. Svetlana Kuznetsova v Alison Van Uytvanck
2. Magda Linette v Anna Kalinskaya
3. Yasutaka Uchiyama v Tennys Sandgren
4. Guido Andreozzi v Laslo Djere

COURT 7 – 11:00AM

1. Steve Johnson v Albert Ramos-Vinolas
2. Yafan Wang v Tereza Martincova
3. Lesley Kerkhove v Ivana Jorovic
4. Hugo Dellien v John Millman

COURT 8 – 11:00AM

1. Elise Mertens v Fiona Ferro
2. Brayden Schnur v Marcos Baghdatis
3. Jay Clarke v Noah Rubin
4. Arina Rodionova v Taylor Townsend

COURT 9 – 11:00AM

1. Stefanie Voegele v Kaia Kanepi
2. Cristian Garin v Andrey Rublev
3. Kaja Juvan v Kristyna Pliskova
4. Marton Fucsovics v Dennis Novak

COURT 10 – 11:00AM

1. Vera Lapko v Qiang Wang
2. Matteo Berrettini v Aljaz Bedene
3. Paula Badosa v Varvara Flink
4. Alexander Bublik v Gregoire Barrere

COURT 14 – 11:00AM

1. Harriet Dart v Christina McHale
2. Tamara Zidansek v Eugenie Bouchard
3. Denis Shapovalov v Ricardas Berankis

Not Before: 5:30pm

4. Lucas Pouille v Richard Gasquet

COURT 15 – 11:00AM

1. Marco Cecchinato v Alex De Minaur
2. Vitalia Diatchenko v Kristina Mladenovic
3. Matthew Ebden v Diego Schwartzman

Not Before: 6:00pm

4. Donna Vekic v Alison Riske

COURT 16 – 11:00AM

1. Andrea Petkovic v Monica Niculescu
2. Denis Istomin v Cameron Norrie
3. Taylor Fritz v Tomas Berdych

COURT 17 – 11:00AM

1. James Ward v Nikoloz Basilashvili
2. Amanda Anisimova v Sorana Cirstea
3. Elena-Gabriela Ruse v Julia Goerges
4. Joao Sousa v Paul Jubb

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Wimbledon Day 1 Schedule

The top half of the men's draw and the bottom half of the women's draw are in play on Day 1 of Wimbledon THE CHAMPIONSHIPS, WIMBLEDON 2019
INTENDED ORDER OF PLAY FOR DAY 1 MONDAY 1 JULY

Centre Court – 1:00 PM

1. Novak Djokovic v Philipp Kohlschreiber
2. Yulia Putintseva v Naomi Osaka
3. Kyle Edmund v Jaume Munar

NO.1 COURT – 1:00PM

1. Simona Halep v Aliaksandra Sasnovich
2. Jiri Vesely v Alexander Zverev
3. Venus Williams v Cori Gauff

NO.2 COURT – 11:00AM

1. Stan Wawrinka v Ruben Bemelmans
2. Lin Zhu v Karolina Pliskova
3. Thomas Fabbiano v Stefanos Tsitsipas
4. Caroline Wozniacki v Sara Sorribes Tormo

NO.3 COURT – 11:00AM

1. Kevin Anderson v Pierre-Hugues Herbert
2. Magdalena Rybarikova v Aryna Sabalenka
3. Kristie Ahn v Anastasija Sevastova
4. Ugo Humbert v Gael Monfils

COURT 12 – 11:00AM 1

1. Caty McNally v Heather Watson
2. Felix Auger-Aliassime v Vasek Pospisil
3. Prajnesh Gunneswaran v Milos Raonic
4. Alize Cornet v Victoria Azarenka

COURT 18 – 11:00AM

1. Elina Svitolina v Daria Gavrilova
2. Karen Khachanov v Soonwoo Kwon
3. Daniil Medvedev v Paolo Lorenzi

Not Before: 6:00pm

4. Su-Wei Hsieh v Jelena Ostapenko

COURT 4 – 11:00AM

1. Peter Gojowczyk v Roberto Bautista Agut
2. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova v Monica Puig
3. Danielle Collins v Zarina Diyas
4. Lorenzo Sonego v Marcel Granollers

COURT 6 – 11:00AM

1. Polona Hercog v Viktoria Kuzmova
2. Mihaela Buzarnescu v Jessica Pegula
3. Hubert Hurkacz v Dusan Lajovic
4. Roberto Carballes Baena v Miomir Kecmanovic

COURT 7 – 11:00AM

1. Cedrik-Marcel Stebe v Reilly Opelka
2. Karolina Muchova v Aleksandra Krunic
3. Andrea Arnaboldi v Ivo Karlovic
4. Dalila Jakupovic v Kirsten Flipkens

COURT 8 – 11:00AM

1. Dayana Yastremska v Camila Giorgi
2. Ernests Gulbis v Leonardo Mayer
3. Pablo Carreno Busta v Alexei Popyrin

COURT 9 – 11:00AM

1. Marie Bouzkova v Mona Barthel
2. Steve Darcis v Mischa Zverev
3. Veronika Kudermetova v Ysaline Bonaventure
4. Jeremy Chardy v Martin Klizan

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COURT 10 – 11:00AM

1. Margarita Gasparyan v Anna-Lena Friedsam
2. Denis Kudla v Malek Jaziri
3. Anastasia Potapova v Jil Teichmann
4. Rebecca Peterson v Yanina Wickmayer

COURT 11 – 11:00AM

1. Marcos Giron v Feliciano Lopez
2. Iga Swiatek v Viktorija Golubic
3. Pablo Cuevas v Damir Dzumhur

COURT 14 – 11:00AM

1. Sofia Kenin v Astra Sharma
2. Shelby Rogers v Anett Kontaveit
3. Jozef Kovalik v Robin Haase
4. Benoit Paire v Juan Ignacio Londero

COURT 15 – 11:00AM

1. Janko Tipsarevic v Yoshihito Nishioka
2. Marketa Vondrousova v Madison Brengle
3. Grigor Dimitrov v Corentin Moutet

Not Before: 6:00pm

4. Shuai Zhang v Caroline Garcia

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COURT 16 – 11:00AM

1. Bernarda Pera v Maria Sakkari
2. Andreas Seppi v Nicolas Jarry
3. Kamil Majchrzak v Fernando Verdasco
4. Ajla Tomljanovic v Daria Kasatkina

COURT 17 – 11:00AM

1. Madison Keys v Luksika Kumkhum
2. Petra Martic v Jennifer Brady
3. Marius Copil v Guido Pella

Not Before: 5:30pm

4. Bradley Klahn v David Goffin

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Lucky Letcord Podcast: What Have We Learned from Two Weeks of Grass Court Tennis?

Tennis Now editor Richard Pagliaro joins the podcast to talk about the first two weeks of grass season.

Today on the Lucky Letcord Podcast Tennis Now editor Richard Pagliaro joins to discuss the first two weeks of grass-court season.

How amazing was Andy Murray's doubles performance at Queen's club and wasn't it cool how 37-year-old Feliciano Lopez stole the show?

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What are Ash Barty's chances at Wimbledon now that she's riding hot with a 12-match winning streak and is the WTA's new No.1? Who will spend more weeks at No.1 when it's all said and done, Naomi Osaka or Barty?

We know 20-year-old Sofia Kenin is one heck of a fighter, but there must be more to her game than just that, right?

Father timeless Roger Federer won his 10th Halle title and looked pretty solid in the process. What is it that makes him so special on the grass?

Felix-Auger Aliassime may have Stefanos Tsitsipas' number but that does not mean the Greek isn't a threat to go deep at Wimbledon. Come for the chatter, stay for the passion (or vice versa!) Thanks to all for listening, and thanks to our sponsors, Tennis Express.

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Del Potro Will Have Surgery Saturday in Barcelona

The Tower of Tandil recorded a message to fans to update them on his situation. Juan Martin del Potro will undergo surgery in Barcelona on Saturday to repair his fractured patella. The Tower of Tandil took to Instagram to share the news with fans and to share his feelings.

“It’s sad to go through all this again,” says Del Potro in Spanish (translated by Team Delpo). “I didn’t expect this at all.”

Del Potro, who originally injured the knee last October in Shanghai, was happy that he was able to complete his rehab without surgery. He returned to tennis in February and then took another few months off before resuming his season on the clay. He injured the knee Wednesday during his victory over Denis Shapovalov.

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“I don’t know what will happen next,” he said. “Hopefully I will have a good recovery. I hope my knee can heal properly.”

He added: “If that match was the last one of my career, that I don’t know. During rehab I will be able to think clearly. I will know what my body is able to do.”

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