Six-times champion Roger Federer was forced to dig deep at Wimbledon again on Wednesday, the Swiss reaching the third round with a hard-fought 6-3, 6-7, 6-4, 7-6 victory over Serbian Ilija Bozoljac.
Images from day three of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Club in London, on Wednesday.
Andy Murray will carry the weight of a nation on his shoulders as he bids to end 74 years of disappointment and become Britain's first men's Wimbledon champion since 1936 when he kicks off his campaign on Tuesday.
It took Kim Clijsters a few minutes to familiarise herself again with the layout at Wimbledon after a four-year absence. Once on court though, the returning Belgian wasted little time in swatting aside Italian Maria Elena Camerin 6-0, 6-3 to ease into the second round on Monday.
The Serbian top seed won a fourth successive title at the All England Club to take his overall Grand Slam tally to 21.
Winners of this year's Wimbledon singles titles will not only own the world's greatest grasscourt title but also a cool 1 million pounds ($1.53 million) in prize money, organisers said on Tuesday.
'Can't leave grass,' the 26 year old captioned an image posted on his social media pages.
Sport's most enduring sibling rivalry will be played out on US. Independence Day after Venus Williams exacted brutal revenge and Serena Williams displayed raw desire to inflict a double defeat on Russia at Wimbledon.
Twice Wimbledon champion Serena Williams hailed Michael Jackson on Friday as "the celebrity of all celebrities" and said she was not worthy of having her name mentioned in the same sentence as the late singer.
Wimbledon finally got to show off its new multi-million dollar Centre Court roof on Friday as weather threatened to disrupt play at the grasscourt championships.
The competitive fire is still burning in Venus Williams and, unlike some of her contemporaries who extinguished their careers early, the five-times Wimbledon champion plans to stick around until at least the 2012 Olympics.
The loss to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, says Senior Associate Editor Bikash Mohapatra, meant Roger Federer's wait for a record-equaling seventh title at the All England Club just got longer, while his aura at the venue received yet another battering.
Lleyton Hewitt proved he is not quite ready to hand over the baton in Australian men's tennis as he used all his years of grasscourt know-how to beat 21-year-old Japanese Kei Nishikori in four sets on Tuesday.
India's youngster Sumit Nagal teamed up with his Vietnamese partner Nam Hoang Ly to reach the boys' doubles final following a thrilling three-set victory against fifth seeds Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia and Casper Ruud of Norway, at Wimbledon.
As the event goes into its second week, only six of the men's top 16 seeds and eight of the women's have made it through to the fourth round.
American five-time Wimbledon women's doubles champion Serena and Venus Williams pulled out of this year's tournament.
The Frenchwoman withdrew from the doubles with partner Tatiana Golovin because of injury.
Rain forced organisers to abandon play at Wimbledon on Wednesday with 19 scheduled matches either unfinished or yet to start.
She has withdrawn from the doubles with partner Tatiana Golovin because of injury.
Federer, a 20-times Grand Slam champion and the world number three, won the last of his eight Wimbledon titles in 2017 and is seeded second this year behind top-ranked Novak Djokovic.
Frenchman Adrian Mannarino also quit at two sets apiece against eight-times champion Roger Federer after sliding over on Centre Court and injuring his knee.
Andy Roddick will use the confidence he gained by reaching last month's Wimbledon final to fuel his bid for the U.S. Open title, the American said on Monday.
Sixth seed Andy Roddick brought former champion Lleyton Hewitt's fine Wimbledon run to an end on Wednesday with an energy-sapping 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 4-6, 6-4 quarter-final victory on Court One.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles twice erased the deficit but were still sent packing from the Wimbledon championships following a defeat in a marathon men's doubles quarterfinal against Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman on Wednesday.
Victoria Azarenka from Belarus battled her way into the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Monday with a hard-fought 7-6, 2-6, 6-3 victory over Russia's Nadia Petrova.
Ninth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France could find no solution to the problem of Ivo Karlovic's massive serve as the Croatian ran out a 7-6 6-7 7-5 7-6 victory in their third-round clash at Wimbledon on Friday.
Top seed Dinara Safina struggled against a knee injury to edge into the second round at Wimbledon on Tuesday as she chases her dream of winning a grand slam.
American Serena Williams barged her way into the second round at Wimbledon on Monday with a 6-1 7-5 victory over Portuguese qualifier Neuza Silva.
When Steffi Graf walked through the All England Club gates for the first time in 10 years as a competitor on Sunday, she got a shock -- her backyard had been landscaped beyond recognition.
Kei Nishikori has shrugged off the pressure of being Japan's highest-seeded player at Wimbledon in the Open era and believes he is getting closer to the levels of the world's top players.
Rafael Nadal stands on the verge of becoming the best player in the world, even if Monday's rankings showed that he was still number two.
During an unpredictable tournament riddled with shocks the one constant has been the ruthless efficiency of Venus and Serena Williams.
Players should stop grumbling about playing on the outside courts at Wimbledon and get on with their real jobs, world number one Roger Federer said on Monday. On the sixth day of the grasscourt championships, Serena Williams and Serbian world number two Jelena Jankovic hit out at organisers after they were shunted off the two main showcourts at the All England Club.
Petra Kvitova added another happy memory at the All England Lawn Tennis Club
Champion Venus Williams and second seed Rafael Nadal survived a few anxious moments to reach the third round of Wimbledon. Williams, seeking a fifth singles title at the All England Club, had to draw on all her big-match experience to repel world number 92 Anne Keothavong 7-5, 6-2 while Nadal also endured some first-set jitters before toppling rising Latvian Ernests Gulbis 5-7, 6-2, 7-6, 6-3.
Grigor Dimitrov dispatched American 10th seed Frances Tiafoe in straight sets with a convincing 6-2 6-3 6-2 victory on Sunday.
Sania Mirza, who is teaming up with Israeli Shahar Peer, is seeded 16th in the ladies championships at Wimbledon.
The All England Club took the players' grasscourt credentials to come up with their top 32 seeds for next week's Wimbledon championships.
Rafael Nadal won his second Wimbledon singles title with a straightforward 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 victory over Czech Tomas Berdych on Sunday.
Sidney Wood, who in 1931 became the only uncontested winner of a Wimbledon final, passed away at age 97 in Palm Beach, Florida, the International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum said. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Patricia Murray Wood, three sons and two stepdaughters. His eldest son, Sidney Wood III, died in 1961.
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