Wimbledon draw revealed in full as Draper faces tough test and Raducanu opens against Brit, 17, still doing her A-levels

The Sun

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JACK Draper will likely have to get past Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner AND Carlos Alcaraz to become the third British man to win Wimbledon.
The No4 seed - aiming to be the first English singles champ since Fred Perry in 1936 - opens against Argentinian Sebastian Baez on Tuesday.
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He had avoided two-time defending champion Alcaraz until a potential final meeting on Sunday July 13.
But there is a strong prospect he will need to overcome Djokovic in the quarters and world No1 Sinner in the semis after landing in their half of the draw.
Meanwhile, Emma Raducanu will open her campaign against a British player who is studying this month for her A-Levels.
The former US Open champion, 22, will be making her fourth tournament appearance at SW19, having made the last 16 four years ago.
And her first-round clash will be against 17-year-old debutant Mimi Xu, who hails from Swansea.
Xu – who is now based in London – has been handed a Golden Ticket for the event and is one of three promising British teenagers in the 128-player draw.
Last year, she reached the semi-finals of the 2024 junior US Open girls singles.
Xu combines her tennis aspirations with education duties, taking her Maths A-Level a year ago.
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And she only found she had been awarded a wildcard when she walked out her A-Level biology exam.
Should Raducanu progress, then it is likely she will have to face 2023 champion Marketa Vondrousova in the second round – and potentially world No1 Aryna Sabalenka in the last 32.
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There are 10 British women in the draw and Katie Boulter will face good pal Paula Badosa from Spain.
Hannah Klugman, 16, is another promising young talent who has a wildcard and she is up against Canadian Leylah Fernandez, who lost to Raducanu in the 2021 US Open final.
Another sixteen-year-old, Mika Stojsavljevic, who lifted the US Open junior title last September, plays American Ashlyn Krueger.
The draw for the 138th Championships was made by referee Denise Parnell and assistant ref Phil Evans.
The winners of the men's and women's tournaments will land £3million in prize money, an 11.1 per cent increase from last year.
British hopes at Wimbledon
BRITAIN has 23 entrants in this year's Wimbledon - the most since 1984. Here is a list of all those competing at the All England Club and their world rankings.
Men's singles
Jack Draper, No. 4
Jacob Fearnley, No. 51
Cameron Norrie, No. 61
Billy Harris, No. 103
Jay Clarke, No. 199
Oliver Crawford, No. 252
Dan Evans, No. 170
Arthur Fery, No. 465
George Loffhagen, No. 302
Johannus Monday, No. 236
Jack Pinnington Jones, No. 282
Henry Searle, No. 409
Oliver Tarvet, No. 719
Women's singles
Emma Raducanu, No. 38
Katie Boulter, No. 41
Sonay Kartal, No. 49
Jodie Burrage, No. 164
Harriet Dart, No. 124
Fran Jones, No. 125
Hannah Klugman, No. 577
Mika Stojsavljevic, No. 802
Heather Watson, No. 148
Mimi Xu, No. 318
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