Wimbledon 2025

Djokovic making short work of Evans. Rybakina 3- up on Sakkari after 17 minutes.

Draper down a set and a break....

Swiatek looking a lot better 3-0 up in the third

Cilic is wiley, but I agree he is 36, Draper far more aggressive and breaks in the third.

Swiatek really powered through by looks of it in the end.

Draper just about hangs on to his serve! 4-4 in the 4th set this is so tense!

Listening to the BBC with Claire Balding, John Mcenroe etc the other day all the male players might as well have gone home as Draper had it in the bag. Oops!

Onto today's matches, I am not holding out much hope for Raducanu against Sabalenka, I think Sabalenka just has too much power that Raducanu won't be able to cope with. I would love for Raducanu to win, it would be a huge scalp for her but just can't see it. The Fritz/Fokina match has the potential to be a 5 setter something I think Fritz will want to avoid after playing 2 5 set matches already. Alcaraz should come through his match as well and he will be hoping to avoid another long match.

Court one I think Kartel will come through unless playing on one of the show courts gets to her, Norrie/Belucci has the look of a 5 setter about it, I think Norrie might just shade it based on his experience more than anything, Svitolina should see of Bencic. Court 2 seems to have the better matched, Osaka should come through, she could be a dark horse here, been on the outside quietly winning her matches and not much focus on her, Keys should win her match and the Jarry/Fonseca match could be exciting hard to pick a winner there.

I am guessing this was Monfils, he always does that, I think its a tactic and part of his act, he loves to entertain the crowd. He was doing the same against Draper at the French Open, Draper said after the match that Monfils was a nightmare to play because he was messing with his head, that at the end Draper said his head was a mess.

Would love to see Djokovic win this year given it’s his 20th year playing Wimbledon - so far so good - whether that was real tummy trouble on Tuesday or an excuse to take a short break - the latter I’d say- there’s no issue with him in his match yesterday - completely outgunned Dan Evans- although it probably won’t get any easier than that from here on in

Is there that much grass court tennis played in the UK though? Their climate is a bit better than here but you'd think still not really suitable for it.

I wouldn't put that down to being specialists on grass though, it is a number of things like the structures that the LTA have brought in around coaching and bringing players on rather than it being on grass. Also the British players are playing at home which helps being surrounded by home comforts and then there is fact that a lot of home players get the wild cards, the same as we see at the Australian, French and US Opens. The players when interviewed have even said that being at home helps them.