Sinner, Swiatek & Djokovic Headline Saturday's Wimbledon Action

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Men's world number 1 Jannik Sinner, seven-time champion Novak Djokovic and five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek are among nan header acts connected nan first Saturday of Wimbledon fortnight.

Sinner has demonstrated why he is 1 of nan large favourites for a first title astatine SW19 by cruising done his first 2 matches, while Djokovic showed glimpses of his champion shape successful his second-round triumph complete Great Britain's Dan Evans.

Meanwhile, eighth seed Swiatek is 1 of nan highest remaining seeds successful nan women's tie and nan Pole will dream to get into information 4 astatine Wimbledon for only nan 3rd clip successful her career.

Defending champion Barbora Krejcikova, 2022 victor Elena Rybakina and highly-rated teen Mirra Andreeva will besides beryllium looking to unafraid their passages done to nan past 16.

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Italian Sinner has reached nan finals of nan past 3 Grand Slam events, winning 2 of them. At 13:30 BST, he will unfastened play connected Centre Court against Spaniard Pedro Martinez, who is classed 52nd successful nan world.

Djokovic, 38, is making his 20th quality successful nan men's singles astatine Wimbledon and will purpose to make it to nan 4th information for nan 17th time.

He is 3rd connected Centre against chap Serb Miomir Kecmanovic, who has equalled his best-ever tally astatine nan tournament.

In betwixt those 2 matches, world number 4 Swiatek takes connected erstwhile Australian Open runner-up Danielle Collins.

Seventh seed Andreeva plays successful nan first lucifer connected Court One (13:00 BST) against Wimbledon debutant Hailey Baptiste, followed by Krejcikova's necktie against 10th seed Emma Navarro of nan United States.

Men's 10th seed Ben Shelton, having needed conscionable complete a infinitesimal to wrap up his second-round triumph connected Friday, rounds things disconnected connected Court One against Hungarian qualifier Marton Fucsovics.

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'Super, scintillating' Shelton wraps up second-round win

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There are nary British players successful singles action connected Saturday, but nan 3 doubles events incorporate location liking and nan juniors' tournaments besides get nether way.

Fifth seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool are successful show tribunal action arsenic they return connected Hendrik Jebens and Albano Olivetti past connected tribunal 2 successful nan 2nd information of nan men's doubles.

Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski - nan sixth seeds - besides proceed their quest for nan men's doubles title erstwhile they return to tribunal 15 for their second-round lucifer against Nicolas Barrientos and Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli.

Salisbury returns to nan aforesaid tribunal later arsenic he partners Luisa Stefan of Brazil successful nan mixed doubles.

It mightiness beryllium a time disconnected from nan singles for location dream Sonay Kartal, but she is backmost successful action alongside Jodie Burrage arsenic they look 11th seeds Beatriz Haddad Maia and Laura Siegemund successful nan women's doubles second-round connected tribunal 16.

Also successful nan women's doubles, Ella McDonald and Mimi Xu return connected American pairing and 16th seeds Caroline Dolehide and Sofia Kenin 3rd connected tribunal three.

There are 2 notable names successful girls' singles first-round action, pinch 2nd seed Hannah Klugman and seventh seed Mika Stojsavljevic - who some made their debuts successful nan women's tie this twelvemonth - get their inferior competitions nether measurement later connected tribunal 12.

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Kazakhstan's Rybakina, 1 of nan astir awesome performers during nan first week, will beryllium among those first successful action erstwhile play connected nan extracurricular courts originates astatine 11:00 BST.

She is up against Denmark's 23rd seed Clara Tauson, while erstwhile Eastbourne champion Daria Kasatkina, now representing Australia, is first connected tribunal 3 against Russian Liudmila Samsonova.

In nan men's draw, Alex de Minaur could meet Djokovic successful information 4 if he gets past Danish qualifier August Holmgren, while Grigor Dimitrov whitethorn meet Sinner successful nan past 16 should he conclusion Austria's Sebastian Ofner.

Veteran Croat Marin Cilic, who knocked retired British number 1 Jack Draper successful information two, successful 2nd connected tribunal 18 against unseeded Spaniard Jaume Munar.

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'That's unbelievable!' - rocket returns and instrumentality shots connected time 5 astatine Wimbledon