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Anyone any idea when tomorrows order of play is announced? Ive got tickets for Court 1 and want to know who I'm going to see

Federer and Djokovic will both be on centre so you're probably looking at Nishikori v Groth and possibly David Goffin since he's playing a Brit. You'll also get a couple of shitey woman's matches of course so hopefully for your sake you get a few wids.

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Federer and Djokovic will both be on centre so you're probably looking at Nishikori v Groth and possibly David Goffin since he's playing a Brit. You'll also get a couple of shitey woman's matches of course so hopefully for your sake you get a few wids.

haha cheers, doubt we'll be able to tell the difference between the players from where we're sitting anyway!
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Marcus Willis ranked 772 won in straight sets against number 54 Ricardis Berankis.

 

He came through six rounds of qualifying to be here unlike some brits who get a wildcard card then get beat for 30k.

Willis had won just £220 in prize money in 2016.

 

The 25-year-old is now guaranteed 50k where he should play Roger Federer once he won his match and that would mean he would be playing on a show court in the next round.

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Fifteen British players made the main singles draw this year and out of eight players that played so far only two have made round 2 (Dan Evans & Marcus Willis).

 

Brit losers so far

Naomi Broady

Laura Robson 

Kyle Edmund 

James Ward

Alex Ward

Brydan Klein 

 

Brits Tomorrow

Liam Broady v Andy Murray

Richard Gasquet v Aljaz Bedene

Monica Puig v Johanna Konta

Heather Watson v Annika Beck

Tara Moore v Alison Van Uytvanck

Katie Swan v Timea Babos

 

Andy Murray match is 2nd on Centre Court.

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Del Potro won today and is through to the second round to face Stan Wawrinka.  Probably the toughest floating player in the draw for Stan.  Del Potro's backhand isn't very good at all these days though, so you'd expect Stan to win.  But if Stan has one of his off days Del Porto could hit him off the court.  He will not be wanting to hit his powerful backhands into Del Porto.  Another stat I saw today was that it was almost 900 days since Del Potro last played a Grand Slam match.  The last time he played a grand slam match Stan Wawrinka hadn't won a slam.

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Marcus Willis just looks delighted to be out here - he can't stop smiling. He's showing some good game, but already 4-0 down in the 1st. Coming up against the ball placement of a guy like Federer is already proving just too much, and it looks like it's going to be a very long day for him. Or very short, depending on what way you look at it, I suppose...

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