Wimbledon 2024 LIVE: Tennis scores as Jannik Sinner battles past Matteo Berrettini after Emma Raducanu win

Raducanu eased past Elise Mertens on No.1 Court with Carlos Alcaraz also victorious on a rain-hit day at Wimbledon

Wimbledon: Emma Raducanu on why she 'couldn't say no' to playing mixed doubles with Andy Murray

Emma Raducanu produced a stunning victory at Wimbledon, sweeping past Elise Mertens hours after confirming she will play alongside Andy Murray in the mixed doubles. Raducanu dominated the world No 33 and claimed a 6-1 6-2 victory in just 75 minutes to return to the third round of a grand slam for the first time since winning the US Open in 2021.

Murray was forced to pull out of his final singles match at the Championships after ruling that he had not recovered from a back operation in time. The two-time champion will play in the men’s doubles alongside brother Jamie on Thursday but his on-court swansong will continue in the mixed doubles alongside Raducanu, the former US Open champion.

Carlos Alcaraz continued his impressive start to his title defence with a dominant win after an early scare against Australian Aleksandar Vukic. In the final match of the day, world No 1 Jannik Sinner battled past compatriot and former Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini in an epic four-set win, 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4) 2-6 7-6 (7-4), on Centre Court.

Follow all the latest updates and live scores from Wimbledon below:

Wimbledon day 3 - live updates

• Wimbledon order of play: Wednesday’s full schedule including Raducanu and Alcaraz
• Emma Raducanu thrashes Elise Mertens 6-1 6-2 to breeze into Wimbledon third round
• Raducanu reacts to statement win and teaming up with Andy Murray in mixed doubles
• Britain’s Sonay Kartal reaches third round and will play Coco Gauff
• Gauff makes light work of Anca Todoni as title march continues
• Carlos Alcaraz reacts to straight-sets victory over Aleksandar Vukic
• Jannik Sinner battles past Matteo Berrettini on Centre Court in all-Italian clash
• Naomi Osaka’s Wimbledon return abruptly halted by Emma Navarro

[3 July 2024 10:11 · Jack Rathborn]

Wimbledon day 3

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[3 July 2024 10:01 · Jack Rathborn]

‘It should be his last Wimbledon’: Nick Kyrgios thinks it’s time for Andy Murray to retire

Nick Kyrgios believes that this year’s Wimbledon finals should be the last one Andy Murray plays in as he does not like watching the 37-year-old Scot continue pushing his body to its limits.

Murray, who has hinted that he would be hanging up his racket this summer, is a doubt for Wimbledon after undergoing surgey to remove a spinal cyst last month. He is set to make a decision over whether he plays in the singles tomorrow morning where he will face Tomas Machac in the evening session.

At the start of the year, Murray had two goals in mind before he steps away from tennis. Playing on Centre Court one last time to “feel the buzz” of the crowd and have some closure was one of them.

However, his recent surgery is the latest setback and Kyrgios says it “pains him” to watch Murray struggle with potentially ‘life-affecting’ injuries.

[3 July 2024 09:54 · Jack Rathborn]

Carlos Alcaraz’s first step shows he’s ready for tennis immortality at Wimbledon

Carlos Alcaraz’s summer won’t be defined by a first-round win at Wimbledon over Mark Lajal but it may prove instructive as he attempts a feat only ever accomplished by tennis royalty.

Any list comprising solely of Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic is one worth being on and, at the age of just 21, Alcaraz is aiming to join them as the only men to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year. On the evidence of this opening salvo in the first match on Centre Court at Wimbledon 2024, he is ready to complete the “Channel slam”.

There may be only so much you can read into a straight-sets win over the world No 262 making his grand slam main-draw debut, but the final scoreline of 7-6, 7-5, 6-2 in two hours and 23 minutes gives some indication that this wasn’t a bog-standard first-round triumph. That had almost nothing to do with Alcaraz and everything to do with Lajal.

[3 July 2024 09:47 · Jack Rathborn]

Wimbledon favourite Jannik Sinner passes first-round test to set up intriguing clash

Jannik Sinner is an altogether different player from the one who left the All England Club on Friday 14 July, 2023. When the Italian made his exit from Wimbledon after a straight-sets defeat by seven-time champion Novak Djokovic, he was the world No 8 and a grand slam semi-finalist. Fifty weeks on, he entered SW19 as the world No 1, a grand slam winner, and the betting favourite to lift the gentlemen’s singles trophy.

In his Wimbledon campaign last year, there were plenty of positives for the 22-year-old: He had reached the final four of a major for the first time, and there was no shame in losing to a king of Centre Court, no less with a display of great promise – despite the straight-sets scoreline. But where last year there was promise, this year there is pressure.

Such are expectations midway through the most successful year of Sinner’s career. January brought his first slam, as he showed steep progress with a banishing of Djokovic in the semi-finals. If the Serb is a king of Centre Court, he is a deity Down Under, yet Sinner was a non-believer that day. But a final against Daniil Medvedev required enormous reserves of belief, and Sinner plundered them to fight back from two sets down, claiming the trophy.

[3 July 2024 09:39 · Jack Rathborn]

Emma Raducanu evokes spirit of England at Euro 2024 after ‘winning ugly’ on Wimbledon return

It’s been two years since Emma Raducanu – 2021’s breakthrough British sporting star – strode out onto the Wimbledon stage with the weight of an expectant crowd on her shoulders. Back then, she was impacted by a side strain and was outplayed in the second round. Last year, she spent her SW19 fortnight away from the courts, entertaining guests in the hospitality areas in a role she insisted pre-tournament “really stung”. Yet after 24 months of setbacks and surgeries, the 21-year-old was back on the pristine grass of the All England Club.

Drawn to face 22nd seed Ekaterina Alexandrova, her second-match Centre Court billing promised to be a genuine litmus test of where her game is right now. Yet a late withdrawal from the Russian due to illness handed the wild card a lucky loser in the form of Mexico’s Renata Zarazua. On paper, it seemed a gift from the tennis gods as she eyed a smooth progression to round two.

But the reality was quite the opposite: this was no cakewalk. Under the gloomy skies of southwest London, Raducanu misfired and miscued. One minute she found her rhythm, the next she lost it. The ebbs and flows were continuous; however, ultimately, Raducanu staggered through an awkward test of nerve, perseverance and 30 unforced errors in straight sets, 7-6(0), 6-3.

[3 July 2024 09:29 · Jack Rathborn]

Look at her now: Coco Gauff enters new chapter of remarkable Wimbledon story

Take a look at her now: a year on from the first-round defeat at Wimbledon that left Coco Gauff in a “dark place”, the American is marching on and looking like a potential champion too after a statement opening victory over her compatriot Caroline Dolehide.

Five years on from her breakthrough at Wimbledon as a 15-year-old, Gauff took top billing on Centre Court and played like a contender for the title, demolishing her friend Dolehide 6-1 6-2 in just 64 minutes.

This was a victory that was never in doubt after Gauff broke her opponent in the opening game of the match. The 20-year-old didn’t look back, bringing a calm assurance and confidence that allowed her powerful and aggressive game to flourish against her mismatched opponent, ranked 51st in the world. “I was trying to have fun and enjoy it,” she said after an emotional win and cleansing night.

[3 July 2024 09:20 · Jack Rathborn]

Andy Murray’s body is broken – it’s time for him to retire

veryone seems to agree this is how Andy Murray should retire from tennis. The countdown is on, and after yet another bout of surgery, no one was expecting him to hang around long against men more than 15 years younger than him for much longer, but there was hope of one more characteristically monumental five-set recovery victory before he finally succumbs to chronology

Those hopes were dashed on Tuesday when a statement from the 37-year-old’s team read: ‘Unfortunately, despite working incredibly hard on his recovery since his operation just over a week ago, Andy has taken the very difficult decision not to play the singles this year.

‘As you can imagine, he is extremely disappointed but has confirmed that he will be playing in the doubles with Jamie and looks forward to competing at Wimbledon for the last time.’

[3 July 2024 09:10 · Jack Rathborn]

Andy Murray denied one last Wimbledon singles run – but legacy assured long ago

Andy Murray’s painful decision to call time on his Wimbledon singles career brings an outstanding era in British sport to a sad end.

The Scot finally gave in to what, in truth, his body has been telling him for years on Tuesday morning when his team announced his withdrawal from what would have been one final All England Club appearance as a singles player.

Murray, ever the competitor but never the most decisive of people, had left the decision until the last possible minute having attempted a miraculous comeback from undergoing back surgery just 10 days earlier.

[3 July 2024 09:01 · Jack Rathborn]

Novak Djokovic answers Wimbledon injury question but bigger issues remain

All eyes are usually on Novak Djokovic when he steps on to Centre Court at Wimbledon but this time, they were trained on one specific body part – his right knee.

On June 5, less than four weeks ago, the 24-time grand slam champion went under the knife after suffering a torn meniscus in his right knee during a fourth-round win over Francisco Cerundolo at the French Open. The idea that he would be fit enough to play at the All England Club and try to reclaim the trophy that was so ruthlessly ripped from his grasp 12 months ago by Carlos Alcaraz seemed not only doubtful but downright fanciful.

His attention would surely turn instead to the Olympic Games and finally achieving the one major accomplishment that has eluded him throughout his storied career – winning Olympic gold for his country. By focussing on Paris 2024, he would avoid not only a potentially damaging race to be fit but also a risky surface-switch merry-go-round from Roland Garros clay to Wimbledon grass back to Roland Garros clay that would test any 37-year-old body, let alone one with a newly surgically-repaired right knee.

[3 July 2024 08:52 · Jack Rathborn]

Cameron Norrie returns to winning ways with straight-sets success at Wimbledon

Cameron Norrie set aside recent grass-court struggles to ease into the second round of Wimbledon with a straight-sets success over tournament debutant Facundo Diaz Acosta.

The unseeded 28-year-old entered Court Three seeking to rediscover the form which brought a run to the semi-finals at the All England Club in 2022.

He answered his critics following first-round exits at Queen’s and Eastbourne – on the back of suffering a similar fate at the French Open – with a 7-5 7-5 6-3 win which sets up a round-two showdown with British number one Jack Draper.