Andy Murray has withdrawn from the singles at Wimbledon and will instead make his farewell from SW19 in the doubles alongside brother Jamie.
Murray was scheduled to face Tomas Machac this evening but the two-time champion announced on Tuesday morning that he has withdrawn having not made sufficient recovery following an operation on a spinal cyst 10 days ago.
Elsewhere, day two sees Novak Djokovic take to Centre Court after overcoming an injury of his own as he faces Vit Kopriva of the Czech Republic as the second match on, following defending women’s champion Marketa Vondrousova opening play on the second day of the tournament.
A mammoth 11 British players will still be in action including Katie Boulter and Jack Draper, the women’s and men’s No 1s, with both seeded for the first time, while world No 1 Iga Swiatek also begins her campaign against former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin, in what is a rematch of the 2020 French Open final.
Monday saw Emma Raducanu admit to “winning ugly” as she overcame tricky lucky loser Renata Zarazua 7-6 6-3 to progress to the second round and was joined in the second round by Britons Lily Miyazaki and Sonay Kartal, who enjoyed a career-best victory over 29th seed Sorana Cirstea.
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Wimbledon 2024: Warm-ups underway
Just to recap, as there are a lot of British players currently in action: Harriet Dart leads the qualifier Zhuoxuan Bai 6-4 3-0 on Court 18, Paul Jubb is 6-1 5-3 up on Thiago Seyboth Wild, while Billy Harris trails Jaume Munar 6-4 3-3 and Jan Choinski is behind against Luciano Darderi 7-5 2-1.
We’re back underway after the warm-ups.
Jamie Braidwood2 July 2024 13:19
Wimbledon 2024: Play to restart as soon as possible
Good news from the outside courts as play is due to restart as soon as possible once the conditions have been assessed.
On Court No 1, the 2022 women’s champion Elena Rybakina will get her tournament underway shortly against Elena-Gabriela Ruse.
Rybakina has been disrupted by injuries and illness this season, but remains a contender should she stay fit over the next two weeks. She’s certainly got the game for it.
Well, actually, the qualifier Ruse has broken Rybakina in her very first game!
Jamie Braidwood2 July 2024 13:08
Wimbledon 2024 prize money: How much do players earn round-by-round?
The total prize money at Wimbledon has reached £50m for the first time ahead of the 2024 Championships.
The winner of the men’s and women’s singles titles will take home a record £2.7m each, with the runner-ups earning £1.4m.
The prize money increases round-by-round, starting from £60,000 for reaching the first round – even if you don’t win.
Carlos Alcaraz and Marketa Vondrousova took home a record £2.35m last year, with the prize money for the men’s and women’s singles champion increasing by almost 15 per cent in 2024.
A total prize fund of £50m includes singles, doubles and wheelchair events and represents an 11.9 increase from last year.
Here’s how it breaks down:
Luke Baker2 July 2024 13:04
Wimbledon 2024 – rain update!
There’s movement on the courts and it looks like the covers are coming off! It’s still damp in the air, as well as overcast and grey but the rain has stopped. This bodes well for a restart soon.
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Luke Baker2 July 2024 12:54
Wimbledon 2024 commentators and presenters: BBC line-up including 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 likely his final-ever Wimbledon, it’s worth reading Jamie Braidwood’s brilliant piece about what he has meant to the town 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 town home to a few thousand people became the scene of Britain’s deadliest mass shooting. Murray was eight, his older brother Jamie 10, when on 13 March 1996 a gunman broke into the gym hall at Dunblane Primary School and killed 16 children aged between five and six and their teacher.
Both Andy and Jamie are survivors of the Dunblane massacre. Andy’s class had been on their way to the gym hall when the first shots were heard and they were taken to hide in the headmaster’s office, sheltering underneath a window. Their mother, Judy Murray, later revealed how she raced to the school to join the hundreds of parents gathered at the gates on the Doune Road, not knowing if their children were alive or dead, all fearing the worst.
The Murrays knew the gunman, who ran youth clubs in the area. He had been in their car, having taken up offers of lifts to the train station. Throughout his 20-year career, Murray has only occasionally talked about the Dunblane massacre and the effects that day had on him. The most revealing insight came from the 2019 documentary Resurfacing, where Murray explained that within two years of the shooting his parents had divorced, his older brother had left home to join an academy and it all contributed to him suffering from anxiety. Murray said that ever since then, tennis has been his way to escape from the trauma of the past, his fuel.
Read the full piece here:
Luke Baker2 July 2024 12:35
Wimbledon 2024 – RAIN UPDATE!
We’ve had some news about the suspended play and we’ll have to show a bit of patience, I’m afraid. There will be no play before 1pm BST – so at least another 35 minutes to this delay.
Play will still start as planned at 1pm on Court 1 and 1.30pm on Centre Court as both those venues have a roof.
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Luke Baker2 July 2024 12:27
Wimbledon 2024 – RAIN DELAY!
Bad news from Wimbledon – the rain has started to come down and the covers are on! Players taken off and all matches suspended.
Hopefully this is only a brief shower – it’s not too heavy to be honest.
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Luke Baker2 July 2024 12:18
Wimbledon 2024: Order of play, day two – Centre Court
We’re a little under 90 minutes away from play beginning on Centre Court for the day – here’s a reminder of what’s in store.
Wimbledon intended 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 below for the full order of play on day two:
Luke Baker2 July 2024 12:08
Wimbledon 2024 – latest scores
The highest-seeded player out on court currently, women’s fifth seed Jessica Pegula, is wasting no time against fellow American Ashlyn Krueger as she races through the first set 6-2 and is already a double-break up in the second at 3-0.
British No 2 Harriet Dart has also just pinched the first set 6-4 against Zhuoxuan Bai, breaking Bai at 5-4 to put one foot in the second round. More good news for Britain as Paul Jubb took the first set 6-1 against Thiago Seyboth Wild and is a break up at 3-1 in the second.
But in-form British wildcard Billy Harris lost the first set 6-4 against Spain’s Jaume Munar on Court 15, as did Jan Choinski 7-5 to Luciano Darderi.
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Luke Baker2 July 2024 11:55