The rain stopped playing …
And unfortunately, that’s the way it is on all the outdoor courts where tennis is played this morning. It’s heavy and the covers are all over campus.
Burrage now loses 2-5, her serve cost her dearly against Tsurenko, and then she fails to take a drop shot to deliver a second break to the Ukrainian. Laura Robson and Ann Keotawong watch. Both former brave Britons know what Burrage is going through. And they also know the feeling that the rain stops the game. Players are sent for a long walk back to the locker room.
Cameron Nori crushed him, he led 5-0 in the first set against Andujar and soon had a set point. This was saved by an overhead from Andujar, but who made a double fault to pass another, made a strange, unsuccessful challenge to Hawkeye on his second serve, then hit a forehand on the air to pass the first set. 6-0 for Nori, nice and easy.
Jodi Burridge’s bright start has rather faded, as she now loses 3-1 to Tsurenko in the first set.
Nori is also on the move. He kept his serve for the first game against Andujar and got a chance for an early break and one that he swallowed. Very promising start at 2-0 in the first.
Cameron Nori serves Pablo Andujar. Photo: Matthew Childs / Reuters
Updated at 11.24 BST
Also in action, Jody Burridge of Kingston on the Thames, who took the first match of the match by Lesya Tsurenko of Kyiv on court 18.
First at the still cloudy and in fact quite empty Wimbledon is Cameron Nori, the British № 1, ninth in the standings, who faces Pablo Andujar, the Spanish veteran.
Tumaini Karayol is our main man on the All-England stage, and here is his big picture.
The last time none of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray took any of the top two in the rankings, its current occupants were seven and six, respectively.
It would be reasonable to assume that such a scenario would imply a significant change at the top of the sport, but Djokovic and Nadal are the main actors at Wimbledon for another year. Despite the place where they are in the rankings, they are somehow the first two placed in the absence of the banned Daniil Medvedev, world number 1 and the injured Alexander Zverev.
Preamble
Here it is. Let the strawberries and cream fly, the songs of Pim and Cliff Richard. All eyes are on SW19 and this is an opening day full of stars to start two weeks. And it seems that rain, even “mostly cloudy” is the forecast on the official website. Oh, good. So thank the lord for the closed roof of the central court and court № 1 and the discussions about the temperature and flight of the ball there. Novak Djokovic, who is defending the title and returning to chase Rafa Nadal in a helmet hunt, puts us in the center, followed by a brave British psychodrama in Emma Raducanu and Sir Andrew Murray for the audience in the middle of the late afternoon. Watch out for Ons Jabeur at number 1, and later for Carlos Alcaraz, maybe the next big thing, but someone is downplaying his chances on the grass. Plus a lot more, and we’re here all two weeks with updates, news and quotes.
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