Showbiz I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . The action continues at Wimbledon on day three , with both Centre Court and Court One hosting some of the tournament’s biggest stars on Wednesday.
Round two in the men’s and women’s singles gets underway in earnest, with fifth seed Daniil Medvedev first up on Centre Court before Naomi Osaka continues her comeback with a tricky tie against seeded American Emma Navarro. Top seed Jannik Sinner wraps up the action on the top arena in SW19 but Court One also has plenty going on, starting with Coco Gauff facing Romanian teenager Anca Todoni. Then it’s the turn of Carlos Alcaraz before Emma Raducanu faces the experienced Elise Mertens of Belgium.
But one famous face who is not on the court is Brit favourite Andy Murray . Murray pulled out of his singles match at Wimbledon on Tuesday after failing to recover in time from surgery. There has been a long will-he, won’t-he debate since withdrawing from Queen’s and then undergoing surgery to have a spinal cyst removed.
It has been a race against time to be fit for what he says will be his last appearance at Wimbledon before finally calling time on his illustrious career at the Paris Olympics. Murray had been given until the last minute to make a decision over his participation by Wimbledon bosses. But he finally made the call on Tuesday morning and will no longer face Tomáš Macháč, instead vacating his sp.
