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Your support makes all the difference.Wimbledon 2018 - day two: Order of play, prize money, how to get tickets, everything you need to know.
No. 3-seeded Garbine Muguruza begins the defence of her title against British wild card Naomi Broady, while newly crowned French Open champion and No. 1-seeded Simona Halep also plays on Centre Court against Kurumi Nara of Japan.
On the men's side, former champions Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic feature. No. 2-seeded Nadal faces Dudi Sela of Israel, while 12th-seeded Djokovic takes on Tennys Sandgren of the United States.
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Order of play, day two:
CENTRE COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START
1 Garbine Muguruza (ESP) [3] 33 vs Naomi Broady (GBR) 34
2 Dudi Sela (ISR) 127 vs Rafael Nadal (ESP) [2] 128
3 Simona Halep (ROU) [1] 1 vs Kurumi Nara (JPN) 2
No.1 COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START
1 Kyle Edmund (GBR) [21] 73 vs Alex Bolt (AUS) 74
2 Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 31 vs Petra Kvitova (CZE) [8] 32
3 Tennys Sandgren (USA) 79 vs Novak Djokovic (SRB) [12] 80
No.2 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 Johanna Konta (GBR) [22] 9 vs Natalia Vikhlyantseva (RUS) 10
2 James Duckworth (AUS) 95 vs Alexander Zverev (GER) [4] 96
3 Dominic Thiem (AUT) [7] 65 vs Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 66
4 Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS) 23 vs Maria Sharapova (RUS) [24] 24
No.3 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) [5] 97 vs Peter Gojowczyk (GER) 98
2 Angelique Kerber (GER) [11] 49 vs Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 50
3 Matthew Ebden (AUS) 111 vs David Goffin (BEL) [10] 112
4 Belinda Bencic (SUI) 63 vs Caroline Garcia (FRA) [6] 64
COURT 12 - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 Ashleigh Barty (AUS) [17] 41 vs Stefanie Voegele (SUI) 42
2 Nick Kyrgios (AUS) [15] 81 vs Denis Istomin (UZB) 82
3 Jack Sock (USA) [18] 105 vs Matteo Berrettini (ITA) 106
4 Heather Watson (GBR) 19 vs Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) 20
COURT 18 - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START
1 Ernests Gulbis (LAT) 91 vs Jay Clarke (GBR) 92
2 Taro Daniel (JPN) 119 vs Fabio Fognini (ITA) [19] 120
3 Monica Niculescu (ROU) 55 vs Naomi Osaka (JPN) [18] 56
4 Jana Fett (CRO) 47 vs Daria Kasatkina (RUS) [14] 48
COURT 4 - 11:30 START
1 Ana Bogdan (ROU) 5 vs Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) 6
2 Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL) 35 vs Polona Hercog (SLO) 36
3 Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 125 vs Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) 126
4 Benoit Paire (FRA) 101 vs Jason Jung (TPE) [0] 102
COURT 5 - 11:30 START
1 Alize Cornet (FRA) 11 vs Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 12
2 Marius Copil (ROU) 83 vs Robin Haase (NED) 84
3 Julien Benneteau (FRA) 69 vs Marton Fucsovics (HUN) 70
4 Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) 13 vs Sachia Vickery (USA) 14
COURT 6 - 11:30 START
1 Damir Dzumhur (BIH) [27] 89 vs Maximilian Marterer (GER) 90
2 Jennifer Brady (USA) 37 vs Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) 38
3 Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) 123 vs Mischa Zverev (GER) 124
4 Magda Linette (POL) 45 vs Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) 46
COURT 7 - 11:30 START
1 Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 99 vs Federico Delbonis (ARG) 100
2 Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) 93 vs Taylor Fritz (USA) 94
3 Pauline Parmentier (FRA) 29 vs Taylor Townsend (USA) 30
4 Alison Riske (USA) 61 vs Mariana Duque-Marino (COL) [0] 62
COURT 8 - 11:30 START
1 Daria Gavrilova (AUS) [26] 25 vs Zarina Diyas (KAZ) 26
2 Diego Schwartzman (ARG) [14] 113 vs Mirza Basic (BIH) 114
3 David Ferrer (ESP) 67 vs Karen Khachanov (RUS) 68
4 Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) 59 vs Kaia Kanepi (EST) 60
COURT 9 - 11:30 START
1 Jiri Vesely (CZE) 115 vs Florian Mayer (GER) 116
2 Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) 109 vs Stephane Robert (FRA) 110
3 Sofia Kenin (USA) 21 vs Maria Sakkari (GRE) 22
4 Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) [27] 57 vs Carina Witthoeft (GER) 58
COURT 11 - 11:30 START
1 Ana Konjuh (CRO) 51 vs Claire Liu (USA) 52
2 Frances Tiafoe (USA) 71 vs Fernando Verdasco (ESP) [30] 72
3 Gilles Simon (FRA) 107 vs Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO) 108
COURT 14 - 11:30 START
1 Christian Harrison (USA) 87 vs Kei Nishikori (JPN) [24] 88
2 Gabriella Taylor (GBR) 43 vs Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 44
3 Katie Boulter (GBR) 53 vs Veronica Cepede Royg (PAR) 54
COURT 15 - 11:30 START
1 Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) 7 vs Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) [30] 8
2 Pablo Cuevas (URU) 117 vs Simone Bolelli (ITA) [0] 118
3 Guido Andreozzi (ARG) 77 vs Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 78
COURT 16 - 11:30 START
1 Shuai Peng (CHN) 27 vs Samantha Stosur (AUS) 28
2 Yuichi Sugita (JPN) 75 vs Bradley Klahn (USA) 76
3 Saisai Zheng (CHN) 3 vs Qiang Wang (CHN) 4
COURT 17 - 11:30 START
1 Bernard Tomic (AUS) 85 vs Hubert Hurkacz (POL) 86
2 Denisa Allertova (CZE) 39 vs Anett Kontaveit (EST) [28] 40
3 Marco Cecchinato (ITA) [29] 121 vs Alex De Minaur (AUS) 122
NOT BEFORE 18.00
4 Danielle Collins (USA) 15 vs Elise Mertens (BEL) [15] 16
MATCHES TO BE ARRANGED
NOT BEFORE 17.00
1 Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 103 vs Denis Shapovalov (CAN) [26] 104
2 Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) [12] 17 vs Katy Dunne (GBR) 18
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