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Wimbledon 2018 - live coverage from day four: prize money, how to get tickets, everything you need to know.
Day Four of the Wimbledon Championships sees the second round of the men's and women's singles continue at the All England Club.
Rafael Nadal opens the action on Centre Court at 1pm, where he takes on Mikhail Kukushkin. Johanna Konta and Kyle Edmund follow the French Open champion, facing Dominika Cibulkova and Bradley Klahn respectively.
Elsewhere, Garbine Muguruza continues her title defence against Alison Van Uytvanck on Court Two. Before that, though, Katie Boulter goes head to head with rising star Naomi Osaka for a place in the third round.
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Order of play - Day Four
CENTRE COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START
1 Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) 126 vs Rafael Nadal (ESP) [2] 128
2 Johanna Konta (GBR) [22] 9 vs Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 12 3
Kyle Edmund (GBR) [21] 73 vs Bradley Klahn (USA) 76
No.1 COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START
1 Marin Cilic (CRO) [3] 33 vs Guido Pella (ARG) 36 T/F 6/3 6/1 3/4
2 Simona Halep (ROU) [1] 1 vs Saisai Zheng (CHN) 3
3 Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) [5] 97 vs Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 99
4 Taylor Fritz (USA) 94 vs Alexander Zverev (GER) [4] 96
No.2 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 Katie Boulter (GBR) 53 vs Naomi Osaka (JPN) [18] 56
2 Andreas Seppi (ITA) 30 vs Kevin Anderson (RSA) [8] 32 T/F 3/6 7/6(5) 3/6 1/1
3 Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 78 vs Novak Djokovic (SRB) [12] 80
4 Bernard Tomic (AUS) 85 vs Kei Nishikori (JPN) [24] 88
5 Garbine Muguruza (ESP) [3] 33 vs Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL) 35
No.3 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 Ashleigh Barty (AUS) [17] 41 vs Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 44
2 Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) 62 vs Stan Wawrinka (SUI) 63 T/F 7/6(7) 6/3 5/6
3 Nick Kyrgios (AUS) [15] 81 vs Robin Haase (NED) 84
4 Benoit Paire (FRA) 101 vs Denis Shapovalov (CAN) [26] 104
5 Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) [12] 17 vs Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) 20
COURT 12 - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 Angelique Kerber (GER) [11] 49 vs Claire Liu (USA) 52
2 John Isner (USA) [9] 49 vs Ruben Bemelmans (BEL) 52 T/F 6/1 6/4 6/7(6) 6/7(3) 3/4
3 Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) 46 vs Daria Kasatkina (RUS) [14] 48
4 Damir Dzumhur (BIH) [27] 89 vs Ernests Gulbis (LAT) 91
COURT 18 - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 Daria Gavrilova (AUS) [26] 25 vs Samantha Stosur (AUS) 28
2 Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) [31] 57 vs Jared Donaldson (USA) 60 T/F 6/3 6/2 3/6 3/4
3 Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 66 vs Karen Khachanov (RUS) 68
4 Simone Bolelli (ITA) 118 vs Fabio Fognini (ITA) [19] 120
COURT 4 - 11:30 START
1 Romain Arneodo (MON) / Jamie Cerretani (USA) 53 vs Kevin Krawietz (GER) / Andreas Mies (GER) 54
2 Luke Bambridge (GBR) / Jonny O'Mara (GBR) 63 vs Lukasz Kubot (POL) / Marcelo Melo (BRA) [2] 64 T/F 4/6 3/6 4/3
3 Sander Arends (NED) / Matwe Middelkoop (NED) 51 vs Austin Krajicek (USA) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) 52
4 Polona Hercog (SLO) / Bernarda Pera (USA) 63 vs Andrea Sestini Hlavackova (CZE) / Barbora Strycova (CZE) [2] 64
5 Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO) / Makoto Ninomiya (JPN) 11 vs Arina Rodionova (AUS) / Maryna Zanevska (BEL) 12
COURT 5 - 11:30 START
1 Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR) / Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) [16] 57 vs Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) / Lucie Safarova (CZE) 58
2 David Marrero (ESP) / Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 3 vs Leonardo Mayer (ARG) / Joao Sousa (POR) 4
3 Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) / Mihaela Buzarnescu (ROU) [15] 41 vsDaria Gavrilova (AUS) / Vera Lapko (BLR) 42
4 Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Yifan Xu (CHN) [6] 49 vs Alison Riske (USA) / Olga Savchuk (UKR) 50 T/F 6/7(5) 6/2 2/3
COURT 6 - 11:30 START
1 Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP) / Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 31 vs Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL) / Robert Farah (COL) [6] 32
2 Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) / Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 35 vs Anna Blinkova (RUS) / Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) 36
3 Timea Babos (HUN) / Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) [1] 1 vs Eri Hozumi (JPN) / Miyu Kato (JPN) 2
4 Raluca Olaru (ROU) / Yafan Wang (CHN) 15 vs Latisha Chan (TPE) / Shuai Peng (CHN) [5] 16
5 Irina Bara (ROU) / Alize Cornet (FRA) 47 vs Andreja Klepac (SLO) / Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) [4] 48
COURT 7 - 11:30 START
1 Ryan Harrison (USA) / Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 19 vs Philipp Petzschner (GER) / Tim Puetz (GER) 20
2 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) / Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) [9] 9 vs David Ferrer (ESP) / Marc Lopez (ESP) 10 T/F 7/6(3) 6/4 2/1
3 Kiki Bertens (NED) / Johanna Larsson (SWE) [9] 9 vs Monique Adamczak (AUS) / Renata Voracova (CZE) 10
4 N.Sriram Balaji (IND) / Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 21 vs Marcus Daniell (NZL) / Wesley Koolhof (NED) 22
COURT 8 - 11:30 START
1 Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) 85 vs Barbora Strycova (CZE) [23] 88
2 Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) [25] 25 vs Gilles Muller (LUX) 27 T/F 7/6(6) 6/6
3 Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) [27] 57 vs Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) 59
4 Diego Schwartzman (ARG) [14] 113 vs Jiri Vesely (CZE) 115
COURT 9 - 11:30 START
1 Petra Martic (CRO) / Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 45 vs Lesley Kerkhove (NED) / Lidziya Marozava (BLR) 46
2 Raquel Atawo (USA) / Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER) [11] 25 vs Xenia Knoll (SUI) / Anna Smith (GBR) 26 T/F
3 Chen Liang (CHN) / Shuai Zhang (CHN) 27 vs Tatjana Maria (GER) / Heather Watson (GBR) 28
4 Mike Bryan (USA) / Jack Sock (USA) [7] 49 vs Daniele Bracciali (ITA) / Andreas Seppi (ITA) 50
5 Elise Mertens (BEL) / Demi Schuurs (NED) [8] 33 vs Sorana Cirstea (ROU) / Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) 34 T/F 4/4
COURT 10 - 11:30 START
1 Divij Sharan (IND) / Artem Sitak (NZL) 59 vs Radu Albot (MDA) / Malek Jaziri (TUN) 60
2 Dalila Jakupovic (SLO) / Irina Khromacheva (RUS) 55 vs Vania King (USA) / Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) [17] 56
3 Eva Hrdinova (CZE) / Giuliana Olmos (MEX) 13 vs Alicja Rosolska (POL) / Abigail Spears (USA) 14
4 Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) [12] 25 vs Alex De Minaur (AUS) / John Millman (AUS) 26
5 Max Mirnyi (BLR) / Philipp Oswald (AUT) [16] 57 vs Julio Peralta (CHI) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 58 T/F 1/6 3/2
COURT 11 - 11:30 START
1 Nicholas Monroe (USA) / John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 23 vs Ben McLachlan (JPN) / Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) [14] 24
2 Ysaline Bonaventure (BEL) / Bibiane Schoofs (NED) 31 vs Hao-Ching Chan (TPE) / Zhaoxuan Yang (CHN) [7] 32 T/F 4/3
3 Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) / Katerina Siniakova (CZE) [3] 17 vs Alexa Guarachi (CHI) / Erin Routliffe (NZL) 18
4 Marius Copil (ROU) / Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 43 vs Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) / Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) 44
5 Mandy Minella (LUX) / Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) 37 vs Georgina Garcia Perez (ESP) / Fanny Stollar (HUN) 38
COURT 14 - 11:30 START
1 Alex De Minaur (AUS) 122 vs Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) 123
2 Stephane Robert (FRA) 110 vs Matthew Ebden (AUS) 111
3 Jennifer Brady (USA) 37 vs Anett Kontaveit (EST) [28] 40
4 Jay Clarke (GBR) / Cameron Norrie (GBR) 5 vs Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI) 6T/F 3/2
COURT 15 - 11:30 START
1 Julien Benneteau (FRA) 69 vs Frances Tiafoe (USA) 71
2 Sachia Vickery (USA) 14 vs Elise Mertens (BEL) [15] 16
3 Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) / Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 21 vs Danielle Collins (USA) / Jessica Moore (AUS) 22 T/F 0/1
4 Julien Benneteau (FRA) / Adrian Mannarino (FRA) 27 vs Frederik Nielsen (DEN) / Joe Salisbury (GBR) 28
5 Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) / Nicolas Jarry (CHI) 47 vs Henri Kontinen (FIN) / John Peers (AUS) [3] 48
COURT 16 - 11:30 START
1 Katerina Siniakova (CZE) 114 vs Ons Jabeur (TUN) 116
2 Alison Riske (USA) 61 vs Belinda Bencic (SUI) 63
3 Taylor Townsend (USA) 30 vs Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 31
4 Belinda Bencic (SUI) / Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) 19 vs Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) / Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP) 20 T/F 3/6 0/3
5 Nikola Mektic (CRO) / Alexander Peya (AUT) [8] 33 vs Jurgen Melzer (AUT) / Daniel Nestor (CAN) 34
COURT 17 - 11:30 START
1 Matteo Berrettini (ITA) 106 vs Gilles Simon (FRA) 107
2 Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) 6 vs Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) 7
3 Sofia Kenin (USA) 21 vs Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS) 23
4 Alex Bolt (AUS) / Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 7 vs Raven Klaasen (RSA) / Michael Venus (NZL) [13] 8 T/F 5/7 2/6 6/3 1/4
MATCHES TO BE ARRANGED
NOT BEFORE 17.00
1 Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) / Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) 61 vs Harriet Dart (GBR) / Katy Dunne (GBR) 62
2 Oliver Marach (AUT) / Mate Pavic (CRO) [1] 1 vs Federico Delbonis (ARG) / Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) 2
NOT BEFORE 18.00
3 Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) / Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) 15 vs Jamie Murray (GBR) / Bruno Soares (BRA) [5] 16
Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of Wimbledon 2018 day four!
Katie Boulter is hoping to produce some Leicester City type magic when she takes on 18th seed Naomi Osaka in the second round of Wimbledon on Thursday.
The 21-year-old Foxes fan won her first grand slam match against Veronica Cepede Royg on Tuesday to continue the rapid improvement that has carried her to the verge of the top 100.
Twenty-year-old Osaka will be a big step up but Boulter is feeling very confident about her tennis and will try to draw on Leicester's remarkable Premier League title glory in 2016 to cause an upset.
Venus Williams said she was 'overjoyed' that Wimbledon organisers gave women the spotlight on the tournament's main showcourts on Wednesday.
Five of the seven matches on Centre Court and Court One on day three were women's singles, although one of them was a late change after the Centre Court programme ended early.
It did not escape the attention of five-time champion Williams, who beat Romanian qualifier Alexandra Dulgheru on Court One to move into the third round.
"I was really overjoyed when I saw the schedule for today. We have a lot of equal play on the main courts in the other three grand slams," the American veteran said.
"It was just fantastic to see Wimbledon also follow suit. It's wonderful to hopefully have that continue, to have equal for the men and the women."
Second seed Caroline Wozniacki was angered by flying ants yesterday as she crashed out of Wimbledon.
For the second year running the All England Club was hit by an invasion of the insects, with Wozniacki's match against Ekaterina Makarova on Court One bearing the brunt.
British hopes of Wimbledon success have been tempered by the absence of Andy Murray, and the last three remaining home players in the main singles events are all in action today.
It is a day loaded with eye-catching matches and storylines. Here, we take a closer look at some of the talking points:
Edmund and Djokovic on collision course
British number one Kyle Edmund and Serbia's three-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic will go head to head on Saturday, as long as both win on Thursday. The prospect is tantalising and it is hard to see Djokovic having any trouble with Argentinian left-hander Horacio Zeballos, and providing that theory holds true it would leave Edmund to take out little-known American Bradley Klahn to get the weekend match on. It should be well within his scope, but Edmund has never reached the third round at Wimbledon before, meaning the 23-year-old is edging towards unexplored territory.
Is Kyrgios a changed man?
The Australian has made headlines for his mischievous, sometimes misbehaving ways in the past at Wimbledon and elsewhere. But he was good as gold in his opener on Tuesday, a four-set win over Denis Istomin. On Thursday he tackles Dutchman Robin Haase, a player he beat in their only previous meeting three years ago in Estoril. Kyrgios has the tennis tools to make a huge impact on grass, and might be wising up to the need to adopt the right attitude too.
First big test for Konta
Dominika Cibulkova is a player few seeds would especially relish facing at Wimbledon. The hard-hitting Slovakian can name Caroline Wozniacki, Agnieszka Radwanska and Eugenie Bouchard among her past victims at the championships, and she has a point to prove after being knocked out of the seedings when Wimbledon officials elected to promote Serena Williams into the top-32 pack. Johanna Konta will have her work cut out, and if the British number one comes through that will be a highly positive sign of what she might achieve this fortnight. Fellow Briton Katie Boulter, meanwhile, faces a tall order against Japan's brilliant 20-year-old Naomi Osaka.
Junior-senior
Ashleigh Barty and Bouchard both already have Wimbledon titles after winning the girls' singles in 2011 and 2012 respectively. Bouchard looked the most likely to step up and claim slam trophy success at senior level, only to lose to Petra Kvitova in the 2014 Wimbledon women's final. The Canadian's decline in fortunes and ranking since - from a high of fifth to her current 188th - has coincided with Barty going the other way. Australian Barty has soared from outside the top 250 at the start of last year to her current status as world number 17. On Thursday they go head to head. It could be rather special.
Three-time champion Novak Djokovic will be in slightly unfamiliar surroundings as he tries to reach the third round at Wimbledon.
The 12th-seeded Serb is scheduled to play on No. 2 Court when he faces Horacio Zeballos of Argentina today, having grown more accustomed to appearing on the larger Centre Court and No. 1 Court at the All England Club.
Top-ranked Rafael Nadal and British hopefuls Johanna Konta and Kyle Edmund will be playing on Centre Court instead, while women's No 1 Simona Halep and last year's men's runner-up Marin Cilic are on No. 1 Court.
Meanwhile, Stan Wawrinka has to erase a two-set deficit against Thomas Fabbiano to advance. Their second-round match was halted by rain on Wednesday with Fabbiano leading 7-6 (7), 6-3, 5-6.
A reminder of the order of play for Wimbledon's main show courts:
Centre Court
Mikhail Kukushkin (Kazakhstan) v 2 Rafa Nadal (Spain)
22 Johanna Konta (Britain) v Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia)
21 Kyle Edmund (Britain) v Bradley Klahn (U.S.)
Court One
3 Marin Cilic (Croatia) v Guido Pella (Argentina) (Cilic leads 6-3 6-1 3-4)
1 Simona Halep (Romania) v Zheng Saisai (China)
5 Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina) v Feliciano Lopez (Spain)
Wimbledon has come under pressure to ban plastic bottles amid criticism of the amount of litter left behind on the All England Club's courts.
British No 1 Johanna Konta raised the issue in the wake of her first-round victory against Natalia Vikhlyantseva.
When asked about the number of plastic bottles used at the Championships, she said: "In terms of water bottles and things like that, I personally don't have water bottles at home.
"I have a filtration system. I have glass containers which I then put in the fridge. I try not to use plastic bags or anything like that."
"I think it's a battle that everyone is facing. I'm a big fan of looking after our planet because we've only got one."
Katie Boulter has made a bright start against Naomi Osaka, despite being broken in her very first service game.
After squandering four break points Boulter than lost her service game to trail 3-0, but has battled back with the score currently 5-2 to Osaka in the opening set.
Osaka looks good to go on and win the opening set but Boulter has made a good start and certainly doesn't look overawed. She's moving her Japanese opponent around the court and really swinging for the lines.
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