Andy Murray has withdrawn from the singles at Wimbledon and can as a substitute make his farewell from SW19 within the doubles alongside brother Jamie.
Murray was scheduled to face Tomas Machac this night however the two-time champion introduced on Tuesday morning that he has withdrawn having not made ample restoration following an operation on a spinal cyst 10 days in the past.
Elsewhere, day two sees Novak Djokovic take to Centre Courtroom after overcoming an damage of his personal as he faces Vit Kopriva of the Czech Republic because the second match on, following defending girls’s champion Marketa Vondrousova opening play on the second day of the match.
A mammoth 11 British gamers will nonetheless be in motion together with Katie Boulter and Jack Draper, the ladies’s and males’s No 1s, with each seeded for the primary time, whereas world No 1 Iga Swiatek additionally begins her marketing campaign towards former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin, in what’s a rematch of the 2020 French Open remaining.
Monday noticed Emma Raducanu admit to “profitable ugly” as she overcame tough fortunate loser Renata Zarazua 7-6 6-3 to progress to the second spherical and was joined within the second spherical by Britons Lily Miyazaki and Sonay Kartal, who loved a career-best victory over twenty ninth seed Sorana Cirstea.
Comply with all the most recent updates and reside scores from Wimbledon beneath:
Wimbledon day 1 – reside updates
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Wimbledon 2024: Play to restart as quickly as doable
Excellent news from the skin courts as play is because of restart as quickly as doable as soon as the circumstances have been assessed.
On Courtroom No 1, the 2022 girls’s champion Elena Rybakina will get her match underway shortly towards Elena-Gabriela Ruse.
Rybakina has been disrupted by accidents and sickness this season, however stays a contender ought to she keep match over the subsequent two weeks. She’s actually obtained the sport for it.
Nicely, truly, the qualifier Ruse has damaged Rybakina in her very first recreation!
Jamie Braidwood2 July 2024 13:08
Wimbledon 2024 prize cash: How a lot do gamers earn round-by-round?
The full prize cash at Wimbledon has reached £50m for the primary time forward of the 2024 Championships.
The winner of the lads’s and girls’s singles titles will take house a report £2.7m every, with the runner-ups incomes £1.4m.
The prize cash will increase round-by-round, ranging from £60,000 for reaching the primary spherical – even in the event you don’t win.
Carlos Alcaraz and Marketa Vondrousova took house a report £2.35m final yr, with the prize cash for the lads’s and girls’s singles champion growing by virtually 15 per cent in 2024.
A complete prize fund of £50m contains singles, doubles and wheelchair occasions and represents an 11.9 improve from final yr.
Right here’s the way it breaks down:
Luke Baker2 July 2024 13:04
Wimbledon 2024 – rain replace!
There’s motion on the courts and it seems to be just like the covers are coming off! It’s nonetheless damp within the air, in addition to overcast and gray however the rain has stopped. This bodes properly for a restart quickly.
Luke Baker2 July 2024 12:54
Wimbledon 2024 commentators and presenters: BBC line-up together with Nick Kyrgios, Clare Balding and John McEnroe
Luke Baker2 July 2024 12:47
On the day that Andy Murray pulled out of the singles at possible his final-ever Wimbledon, it’s value studying Jamie Braidwood’s good piece about what he has meant to the city of Dunblane.
Andy Murray didn’t put Dunblane on the map. It was already there, sitting quietly between Stirling and Perthshire in central Scotland, when a sleepy city house to some thousand folks grew to become the scene of Britain’s deadliest mass taking pictures. Murray was eight, his older brother Jamie 10, when on 13 March 1996 a gunman broke into the fitness center corridor at Dunblane Major Faculty and killed 16 youngsters aged between 5 and 6 and their trainer.
Each Andy and Jamie are survivors of the Dunblane bloodbath. Andy’s class had been on their method to the fitness center corridor when the primary pictures had been heard and so they had been taken to cover within the headmaster’s workplace, sheltering beneath a window. Their mom, Judy Murray, later revealed how she raced to the varsity to hitch the a whole bunch of oldsters gathered on the gates on the Doune Street, not understanding if their youngsters had been alive or lifeless, all fearing the worst.
The Murrays knew the gunman, who ran youth golf equipment within the space. He had been of their automobile, having taken up provides of lifts to the practice station. All through his 20-year profession, Murray has solely sometimes talked concerning the Dunblane bloodbath and the consequences that day had on him. Probably the most revealing perception got here from the 2019 documentary Resurfacing, the place Murray defined that inside two years of the taking pictures his mother and father had divorced, his older brother had left house to hitch an academy and all of it contributed to him affected by nervousness. Murray stated that ever since then, tennis has been his method to escape from the trauma of the previous, his gas.
Learn the complete piece right here:
Luke Baker2 July 2024 12:35
Wimbledon 2024 – RAIN UPDATE!
We’ve had some information concerning the suspended play and we’ll have to indicate a little bit of persistence, I’m afraid. There can be no play earlier than 1pm BST – so at the least one other 35 minutes to this delay.
Play will nonetheless begin as deliberate at 1pm on Courtroom 1 and 1.30pm on Centre Courtroom as each these venues have a roof.
Luke Baker2 July 2024 12:27
Wimbledon 2024 – RAIN DELAY!
Unhealthy information from Wimbledon – the rain has began to return down and the covers are on! Gamers taken off and all matches suspended.
Hopefully that is solely a short bathe – it’s not too heavy to be sincere.
Luke Baker2 July 2024 12:18
Wimbledon 2024: Order of play, day two – Centre Courtroom
We’re just a little beneath 90 minutes away from play starting on Centre Courtroom for the day – right here’s a reminder of what’s in retailer.
Wimbledon supposed order of play – Tuesday 2 July
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP) vs Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) [6]
Vit Kopriva (CZE) vs Novak Djokovic (SRB) [2]
Jack Draper (GBR) [28] vs Elias Ymer (SWE)
See beneath for the complete order of play on day two:
Luke Baker2 July 2024 12:08
Wimbledon 2024 – newest scores
The best-seeded participant out on courtroom presently, girls’s fifth seed Jessica Pegula, is losing no time towards fellow American Ashlyn Krueger as she races by means of the primary set 6-2 and is already a double-break up within the second at 3-0.
British No 2 Harriet Dart has additionally simply pinched the primary set 6-4 towards Zhuoxuan Bai, breaking Bai at 5-4 to place one foot within the second spherical. Extra excellent news for Britain as Paul Jubb took the primary set 6-1 towards Thiago Seyboth Wild and is a break up at 3-1 within the second.
However in-form British wildcard Billy Harris misplaced the primary set 6-4 towards Spain’s Jaume Munar on Courtroom 15, as did Jan Choinski 7-5 to Luciano Darderi.
Luke Baker2 July 2024 11:55
Andy Murray withdraws from Wimbledon singles following again operation
A reminder of the most important story to this point this morning.
Andy Murray has pulled out of the singles at Wimbledon forward of his first-round match towards Tomas Machac, however the 37-year-old will make a farewell look on the Championships alongside his older brother Jamie within the doubles.
“Sadly, regardless of working extremely arduous on his restoration since his operation simply over per week in the past, Andy has taken the very troublesome resolution to not play the singles this yr,” an announcement from Murray’s workforce learn.
“As you’ll be able to think about, he’s extraordinarily disenchanted however has confirmed that he can be enjoying within the doubles with Jamie and appears ahead to competing at Wimbledon for the final time.”
Luke Baker2 July 2024 11:35
