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Wimbledon draw revealed in full as Draper faces tough test and Raducanu opens against Brit, 17, still doing her A-levels
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Ace in the hole Wimbledon draw revealed in full as Draper faces tough test and Raducanu opens against Brit, 17, still doing her A-levels
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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Jack Draper will have to become Wimbledon champion the hard way after learning his fate in the draw
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Emma Raducanu is opening against a 17-year-old still doing her A-Levels
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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.
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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 wold No.1 Aryna Sabalenka in the Last 32.
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.
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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.
Ladies' singles draw in full Sabalenka v Branstine
Raducanu v Xu
Vondrousova v Kessler
Mertens v Fruhvirtova
Li v Golubic
Gracheva v Sasnovich
Boulter v Badosa
Minnen vs Gadecki
Todoni vs Bucsa
Birrel v Vekic
Fernandez v Klugman
Stearns v Siegemund
Danilov v Zhang
Ruse v Keys
Paolini v Sevastova
Rakhimova v Ito
Lys v Yuan
Pera v Noskova
Haddad Maia v Sramkova
Dart v Galfi
Wickmayer v Zarazua
Putintseva v Anisimova
Shnaider v Uchijima
Parry v Martic
Tomova v Jabeur
Kartal v Ostapenko
Krueger v Stojsavljevic
Pavlyuchenkova v Tomljanovic
Osaka v Gibson
Siniakova v Zheng
Andreeva v Sherif
Teichmann v Bronzetti
Bapiste v Cirstea
Potapova v Frech
Krejcikoba v Eala
Dolehide v Rus
Kudermetova v Zhu
Kvitova v Navarro
Mucholva v Wang
Sonmez v Cristian
Lamens v Jovic
Hon v Alexandrova
Linette v Jacquemot
Parks v Bencic
Volynets v Maria
Cocciaretto v Pegula
Swiatek v Kudermetova
McNally v Burrage
Osorio v Collins
Erjavec v Kostyuk
Tauson v Watson
Kalinskaya v Stojanovic
Sakkari v Blinkova
Avanesyan v Rybakina
Kasatkina v Arango
Begu v Juvan
Starodubtseva v Jones
Joint v Samsonova
Kenin v Townsend
Bouzas Maneiro v Seidel
Azarenka v Zakharova
Yastremska v Gauff
