Men’s defending Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic will tackle British teen wildcard Jack Draper in his opening match, however Simona Halep, the ladies’s winner of the final championship in 2019, won’t function within the Open after withdrawing on Friday.
World No 1 Djokovic is midway to a calendar-year Grand Slam after profitable each the Australian and French Open titles this 12 months, bringing his complete to 19. Draper, 19, will make his Grand Slam primary draw debut.
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Romanian Halep introduced earlier on Friday that she could be dominated out of the event because of a calf harm, which might stop her from enjoying within the French Open.
Serena Williams, who defeated Halep to win the title in 2019, will start her newest quest to say a record-equalling 24 Grand Slam titles in opposition to Belarus’s Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
Women’s prime seed Ash Barty of Australia will face Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro, who has lately recovered from most cancers.
Britain’s two-time champion Andy Murray, taking part in singles for the primary time since 2017 following two hip surgical procedures, was slated to play Georgian twenty fourth seed Nikoloz Basilashvili.
Eight-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer, who turns 40 this 12 months, will tackle Frenchman Adrian Mannarino within the first spherical.
Wimbledon is making a comeback this 12 months as final 12 months’s event was canceled as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
The event is a government-approved ‘pilot occasion’ with a minimal of fifty% capability, which will increase to a full 15,000 attendance for the boys’s and ladies’s singles finals on middle court docket.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
