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Wimbledon day eight

Wimbledon day eight

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FILE PHOTO: Tennis - Wimbledon - All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, Britain - July 5, 2025 Serbia's Novak Djokovic in action during his third round match against Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
Highlights of the eighth day at the Wimbledon tennis championships on Monday (times GMT):
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Play began under overcast skies at the All England Club, with the temperature hovering around 17 degrees Celsius (62.6°F) and expected to climb to 21 degrees, and cool and dry conditions expected throughout the day.
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WIMBLEDON ORDER OF PLAY ON MONDAY (prefix number denotes seeding)
CENTRE COURT (Play begins at 1230 GMT)
11-Alex de Minaur (Australia) v 6-Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
7-Mirra Andreeva (Russia) v 10-Emma Navarro (U.S.)
1-Jannik Sinner (Italy) v 19-Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria)
COURT NUMBER ONE (Play begins at 1200 GMT)
18-Ekaterina Alexandrova (Russia) v Belinda Bencic (Switzerland)
10-Ben Shelton (U.S.) v Lorenzo Sonego (Italy)
8-Iga Swiatek (Poland) v 23-Clara Tauson (Denmark)
COURT NUMBER TWO (Play begins at 1000 GMT)
Marin Cilic (Croatia) v 22-Flavio Cobolli (Italy)
19-Liudmila Samsonova (Russia) v Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (Spain) REUTERS
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