Rain delays play on outside courts at Wimbledon

Now there’s something to brag about to friends: “The guy who coaches me is playing Federer at Wimbledon”.

Keys, seeded No. 9 after breaking into the top 10 for the first time this month, also reached the third round with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 win over Kirsten Flipkens.

French Open champion and 2015 Wimbledon runner-up Garbine Muguruza has been stunned in the second round at the All England Club by a qualifier ranked 124th.

Radwanska has never lost a first-round match in 11 appearances at the All England Club.

There will be matches at Wimbledon on the middle Sunday for only the fourth time in the tournament’s 139-year history because of rain delays all week.

Goran Ivanisevic was once ranked No. 2 in the world; he entered the 2001 Wimbledon ranked a staggering No. 1,123.

Gasquet reached the Wimbledon semifinals previous year, while Tsonga made it to the semis in 2011 and 2012. So during, a match against Dick Stockton, Nastase played a fair amount of the game with one hand while the other was holding an umbrella. Cilic was trailing 1-0 in the third set when the match resumed on Saturday.

The 28th-seeded Querrey advanced to a third-round matchup against two-time defending champion Novak Djokovic by beating Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci 6-4, 6-2, 6-2.

Play on the outside courts started 30 minutes earlier than usual on Thursday under cloudy skies, with some rain forecast for later in the day.

In 1969, 41-year-old Pancho Gonzales was very insistent on playing at Wimbledon after rules prior to the open era had frustratingly prevented him from participating in the tournament. She will next face Annika Beck of Germany in the third round.

Williams, seeded eighth, had some trouble and needed 2 1/2 hours, but wound up getting past 20-year-old qualifier Maria Sakkari 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 – one of 10 singles victories for Americans on Thursday.

Williams’ serve was shaky, she was broken once, and hit more unforced errors.

The players stayed on serve the rest of the way, with Muguruza serving out the match at love.

The match ended Saturday, when it was interrupted by three rain delays.

Didn’t take long for the first rain delay of Wimbledon this year.

All England Club spokesman Johnny Perkins says discussions are taking place Friday “as a precaution to tee up the operational side”.

More showers are forecast for Wednesday afternoon.

In addition, men’s doubles matches have been reduced to best-of-three sets, instead of best-of-five, for the first and second rounds.

Venus Williams has been pushed to a third set in her third-round match at Wimbledon.

Djokovic played in this year’s first round win over Kazakhstan, taking part in three of the five rubbers over the weekend. Kasatkina took the second 6-4. He hasn’t dropped a set so far this week as he bids for a fourth Wimbledon title, fifth straight Grand Slam championship and 13th major overall.

(AP Photo/Alastair Grant). Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after beating James Ward of Britain during their men’s singles match on day one of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Monday, June 27, 2016.

Murray has lost to Novak Djokovic in the finals of both the Australian Open and French Open this year.

As a teen, Willis appeared to be an up-and-coming junior, reaching the third round of the Wimbledon boys’ tournament in 2007 and 2008, but injuries and what he describes as a lack of dedication derailed his career.

Play has been halted on all courts Tuesday, Day 2 of the tournament, because of a shower.

At Wimbledon a year ago, she knocked off third-seeded Simona Halep in the first round.

The rain is back at Wimbledon.

Under cloudy skies, play began on schedule on the outside courts at the All England Club.

Play on Centre Court, the only venue at the All England Club with a retractable roof, is still going on, with Stan Wawrinka leading Juan Martin del Potro.

“Yeah”, Cepelova said, “I like to play on the big courts”. “Create it really attractive, not just for us tennis players, but for fans, for media, for everybody, for sponsors”.

Play on Centre Court, which has a retractable roof, has not yet started.

Action is being delayed on other courts because of rain.

Federer won the first seven games and was always in control.