Wimbledon: Ball boy collapses, player feels dizzy on record heat day

John Isner is back in Wimbledon’s third round for the second consecutive year.

Wimbledon is braced for what could be the hottest day in its history as this week’s heatwave reaches its peak. Last year, the Russian lost in the fourth round at Wimbledon.

LONDON (AP) – Venus Williams is no longer the player she once was, on account of the passage of time and the day-to-day ups and downs of an energy-sapping condition.

“In grand slams you have to try to conserve energy when you can really because the two weeks can be quite draining physically and mentally”, Murray told reporters.

“Well, I do expect him to serve well, and I do expect him, you know, to mix up the game, come up with a lot of variety”, the reigning champion said. Djokovic has not lost to an Australian in a tour-level match since 2006.

He was carted off the court and treated.

Asked about Wimbledon’s “heat rule”, under which female players can ask for a 10-minute break after two sets on exceptionally hot days but men cannot, he said the topic had become a subject of discussion in the men’s locker room.

Wearing a large pair of red Beats headphones, Brown – who used to travel to tournaments in a VW camper van – raised his arm in the air to acknowledge his supporters.

Radwanska easily dispatched Alja Tomljanovic of Australia 6-0, 6-2 on Court 2.

His comments followed remarks earlier in the day by Judy Murray, mother of the number 3 seed Andy, and captain of Britain’s Federation Cup team, who said: “I think the men should adopt it as well, especially because they have to play best-of-five sets and a slam is such a tough thing to play”.

“Is that what they do?” Obviously today is a bad moment for me.

Bernard Tomic said he was “dizzy” for a while in the second set of his victory over Pierre-Hugues Herbert of France in the second round.

Kvitova: I think it’s time when the women’s are going a little higher than before.

Murray led the way by polishing off Dutchman Robin Haase 6-1 6-1 6-4 in 87 minutes with barely a misplaced shot.

He found himself 4-1 down in the tie-breaker in the third, storming back to win it 7-5. She finally converted her second match point in the tiebreaker with a backhand volley victor. Another win for each sister and they would meet in the fourth round.

The women’s draw opened up even further when Russian eighth seed Ekaterina Makarova, a quarter-finalist in 2014, went down 6-2, 7-5 to unseeded Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia.

The official Wimbledon weather forecast predicted a hot and humid day, “mostly dry with sunny spells and broken clouds”, with a 20 percent chance of a shower – though if any such downpours occur, they should move through quickly.

Prince Charles’ wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will be among the guests in the Royal Box at Wimbledon on Thursday.

In the bright sunshine in southwest London, temperatures reached 35.7 degrees Celsius (96.26 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the Met Office— the highest recorded during the two-week tournament that is better known for persistent rain.

The roof was also closed this morning on Centre Court as organisers battled the heatwave.