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Hey and welcome to Centre Court docket, the place we’re poised and prepared for the primary British hope to step onto the hallowed turf – Emma Raducanu, up in just some minutes time for her first-round tie with Renata Zarazua.
With out having hit a tennis ball, Raducanu’s morning has – no less than on the floor – appeared charmed. First got here information that the previous British No1’s opponent Ekaterina Alexandrova had withdrawn as a result of sickness, organising a tie with a fortunate loser ranked 98th on this planet.
Then, one other spell of doable luck, with the disappointing withdrawal of world No3 Aryna Sabalenka. The Belarusian has been fighting a uncommon shoulder harm, and located her closing follow session on Monday morning an excessive amount of to take.
Sabalenka was probably the most important pitfall awaiting Raducanu in what now seems like a really open part of the draw certainly. That’s, if Raducanu can cross her first take a look at, on the most important stage of all.
Play has simply wrapped up between defending males’s champion Carlos Alcaraz and Mark Lajal, with the Spaniard successful in a not-as-straight-forward-as-it-first-appears straight units victory in opposition to the Estonian qualifier.
