Wimbledon 2019: Order of play for Saturday – day six featuring Andy Murray, Serena Williams, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal
Here is the full schedule for the sixth day of play at The Championships 2019
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Your support makes all the difference.Day six of the Wimbledon Championships sees a whole host of big names in action with Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Serena Williams all on court at SW19.
Fresh from his epic tussle with Nick Kyrgios, Nadal is back on Centre Court with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga his next foe before Federer continues his campaign against France's Lucas Pouille afterwards.
Britain's Harriet Dart takes on world No 1 Ashleigh Barty before that while 23-time Grand Slam champion Williams continues her march to what she hopes is yet another All England Club title against Julia Goerges on Court One.
Two-time champ Murray will also be in action as he returns for round two of the men's doubles alongside partner Pierre-Hugues Herbert.
Here's who playing who and when:
ORDER OF PLAY - DAY SIX
CENTRE COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START
1 Ashleigh Barty (AUS) [1] 1 vs Harriet Dart (GBR) 5
2 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 92 vs Rafael Nadal (ESP) [3] 96
3 Lucas Pouille (FRA) [27] 121 vs Roger Federer (SUI) [2] 128
No.1 COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START
1 Serena Williams (USA) [11] 17 vs Julia Goerges (GER) [18] 24
2 Sloane Stephens (USA) [9] 49 vs Johanna Konta (GBR) [19] 56
3 Joao Sousa (POR) 83 vs Daniel Evans (GBR) 86
No.2 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:00 START
1 Magda Linette (POL) 59 vs Petra Kvitova (CZE) [6] 64
NOT BEFORE 13.00
2 Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) / Andy Murray (GBR) 30 vs Nikola Mektic (CRO) / Franko Skugor (CRO) [6] 32
3 Robert Lindstedt (SWE) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 21 vs Jay Clarke (GBR) / Cori Gauff (USA) 22
No.3 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:00 START
1 Kei Nishikori (JPN) [8] 97 vs Steve Johnson (USA) 101
2 Kiki Bertens (NED) [4] 33 vs Barbora Strycova (CZE) 39
3 Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) 14 vs Bob Bryan (USA) / Mike Bryan (USA) [7] 16
COURT 12 - SHOW COURT - 11:00 START
1 Alison Riske (USA) 10 vs Belinda Bencic (SUI) [13] 16
2 Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) [33] 105 vs Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) 110
3 Timea Babos (HUN) / Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) [1] 1 vs Jennifer Brady (USA) / Alison Riske (USA)
NOT BEFORE 17.30
4 Rebecca Peterson (SWE) / Tamara Zidansek (SLO) 37 vs Victoria Azarenka (BLR) / Ashleigh Barty (AUS) [10] 40
COURT 18 - SHOW COURT - 11:00 START
1 Elise Mertens (BEL) [21] 41 vs Qiang Wang (CHN) [15] 48
2 Matteo Berrettini (ITA) [17] 113 vs Diego Schwartzman (ARG) [24] 120
3 Neal Skupski (GBR) / Hao-Ching Chan (TPE) [9] 9 vs Matwe Middelkoop (NED) / Zhaoxuan Yang (CHN) 12
NOT BEFORE 17.30
4 John Peers (AUS) / Shuai Zhang (CHN) [4] 17 vs Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) / Abigail Spears (USA) or Henri Kontinen (FIN) / Heather Watson (GBR) 20
COURT 4 - 11:00 START
1 Eric Vanshelboim (UKR) 3 vs Leandro Riedi (SUI) 4 (BS)
2 Dane Sweeny (AUS) 55 vs Harold Mayot (FRA) [17] 56 (BS) 2 Rinky Hijikata (AUS) 5 vs Govind Nanda (USA) 6 (BS)
3 Toby Kodat (USA) [7] 33 vs Tristan Schoolkate (AUS) 34 (BS)
4 Kristyna Lavickova (CZE) 27 vs Erin Richardson (GBR) 28 (GS)
COURT 5 - 11:30 START
1 Valentina Ryser (SUI) 39 vs Sohyun Park (KOR) [12] 40 (GS)
2 Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 61 vs Destinee Martins (GBR) 62 (GS)
3 Matteo Arnaldi (ITA) 11 vs Arthur Fery (GBR) 12 (BS)
4 James Story (GBR) 63 vs Jonas Forejtek (CZE) [2] 64 (BS)
COURT 6 - 11:30 START
1 Mai Napatt Nirundorn (THA) 37 vs Holly Fischer (GBR) 38 (GS)
2 Ane Mintegi Del Olmo (ESP) 43 vs Victoria Allen (GBR) 44 (GS)
3 Sonay Kartal (GBR) 5 vs Annerly Poulos (AUS) 6 (GS)
4 Harry Wendelken (GBR) 31 vs Jiri Lehecka (CZE) [5] 32 (BS)
5 Valentin Royer (FRA) 15 vs Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) [8] 16 (BS)
COURT 7 - 11:30 START
1 Flavio Cobolli (ITA) 43 vs Sergey Fomin (UZB) 44 (BS)
2 Emma Navarro (USA) [1] 1 vs Diana Shnaider (RUS) 2 (GS)
3 Anastasia Tikhonova (RUS) [13] 41 vs Hong Yi Cody Wong (HKG) 42 (GS)
4 Martin Damm (USA) [4] 17 vs Francesco Passaro (ITA) 18 (BS)
5 Dalibor Svrcina (CZE) 37 vs Wojciech Marek (POL) 38 (BS) 5
COURT 8 - 11:00 START
1 Xinyun Han (CHN) / Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO) 22 vs Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) / Monica Niculescu (ROU) [15] 24
2 Sorana Cirstea (ROU) / Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 5 vs Alize Cornet (FRA) / Petra Martic (CRO) 7
3 Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) / Xinyun Han (CHN) 37 vs Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) / Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) 38
4 Bruno Soares (BRA) / Nicole Melichar (USA) [1] 1 vs Denys Molchanov (UKR) / Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 3 4
COURT 9 - 11:00 START
1 Anna Blinkova (RUS) / Yafan Wang (CHN) 53 vs Maria Sakkari (GRE) / Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) 55
2 Raquel Atawo (USA) / Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR) [16] 57 vs Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER) / Laura Siegemund (GER) 60
3 Ivan Dodig (CRO) / Filip Polasek (SVK) 26 vs Nicholas Monroe (USA) / Mischa Zverev (GER) 27
4 Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) [13] 41 vs Artem Sitak (NZL) / Laura Siegemund (GER) or Ken Skupski (GBR) / Darija Jurak (CRO) 44
COURT 10 - 11:00 START
1 Antonia Samudio (COL) 3 vs Selena Janicijevic (FRA) 4 (GS)
2 Mell Elizabeth Reasco Gonzalez (ECU) 63 vs Maria Camila Osorio Serrano (COL) [2] 64 (GS)
3 Youcef Rihane (ALG) 21 vs Taha Baadi (CAN) 22 (BS)
4 Joanna Garland (TPE) [14] 57 vs Aubane Droguet (FRA) 58 (GS) 4
COURT 11 - 11:00 START
1 Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP) / Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 53 vs Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG) [9] 56
2 Samantha Stosur (AUS) / Shuai Zhang (CHN) [5] 33 vs Danielle Collins (USA) / Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 36
3 Luke Bambridge (GBR) / Asia Muhammad (USA) 54 vs Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) / Andreja Klepac (SLO) [11] 56
4 Abigail Forbes (USA) 45 vs Liubov Kostenko (UKR) 46 (GS) 4
COURT 14 - 12:30 START
1 Tennys Sandgren (USA) 76 vs Fabio Fognini (ITA) [12] 80
2 Joran Vliegen (BEL) / Saisai Zheng (CHN) 62 vs Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) / Demi Schuurs (NED) [2] 64
3 Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) / Barbora Strycova (CZE) [3] 17 vs Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) / Viktorija Golubic (SUI) 19
COURT 15 - 11:30 START
1 Filip Cristian Jianu (ROU) [13] 41 vs Toby Samuel (GBR) 42 (BS)
NOT BEFORE 12.30
2 Marcus Daniell (NZL) / Wesley Koolhof (NED) 21 vs Jaume Munar (ESP) / Cameron Norrie (GBR) 23
3 Divij Sharan (IND) / Yingying Duan (CHN) [16] 57 vs Evan Hoyt (GBR) / Eden Silva (GBR) 60
4 Wesley Koolhof (NED) / Kveta Peschke (CZE) [5] 33 vs Philipp Oswald (AUT) / Monique Adamczak (AUS) 36
COURT 16 - 11:00 START
1 Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) [30] 25 vs Lauren Davis (USA) 30
2 Oliver Marach (AUT) / Jurgen Melzer (AUT) [14] 57 vs Roman Jebavy (CZE) / Philipp Oswald (AUT) 59
3 Carlos Gimeno Valero (ESP) 47 vs Thiago Agustin Tirante (ARG) [3] 48 (BS)
4 Elina Avanesyan (RUS) 11 vs Carlota Martinez Cirez (ESP) 12 (GS) 4
COURT 17 - 11:00 START
1 Sam Querrey (USA) 66 vs John Millman (AUS) 70
2 Shunsuke Mitsui (JPN) [14] 57 vs Juan Bautista Torres (ARG) 58 (BS)
3 Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida (BRA) 27 vs Alejo Lorenzo Lingua Lavallen (ARG) 28 (BS)
4 Qinwen Zheng (CHN) [3] 17 vs Thasaporn Naklo (THA) 18 (GS)
MATCHES TO BE ARRANGED NOT BEFORE 17.30
Andy Murray (GBR) / Serena Williams (USA) or Andreas Mies (GER) / Alexa Guarachi (CHI) 6
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*Murray/Williams 6-4 1-0 Mies/Guarachi
MURRAY/WILLIAMS BREAK!
Just like the first set, Murray and Williams break in the first game, as at 30-40, a net cord from Serena's backhand whizzes past Mies, who is left helpless.
A lucky break!
*Murray/Williams 6-4 1-0 Mies/Guarachi (40-40)
Big ace out wide by Murray recovers the score to 30-30, and another fierce serve down the T is irretrievable for Mies.
At 40-30 though, a lob from Mies prompts a "I got it" from Murray, who then duly nets the forehand!
Deuce.
Murray/Williams 6-4 2-0 Mies/Guarachi*
Murray's serve is too much for both opponents, and the star-studded duo have a two-game lead.
Murray/Williams 6-4 2-0 Mies/Guarachi* (15-40)
A double fault at the start of the game sets the tone for Guarachi, and Murray and Williams race to TWO BREAK POINTS...
Murray/Williams 6-4 2-0 Mies/Guarachi* (40-40)
Two break points saved, as Mies takes control, first finishing off a volley and then taking on Serena crosscourt before an angled volley which is out of Serena's reach.
Deuce.
*Murray/Williams 6-4 3-0 Mies/Guarachi
MURRAY/WILLIAMS BREAK AGAIN!
Andy and Serena now have a double break lead, as first Serena hits a return winner, before Murray's return is too hot for Guarchi to handle, and she nets!
Light is fading rapidly here on Centre, but surely SerAndy will get this wrapped up pronto from now...
COURT 1 UPDATE
DAN EVANS WINS THE FOURTH SET!
We're going the distance on 1, as Evans clinches the set 6-4!
*Murray/Williams 6-4 3-0 Mies/Guarachi (0-40)
Well, who saw this coming?
A few lacklustre serves from Serena are punished, and it's 0-40...
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