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Rain has delayed play on outdoor courts on the sixth day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships as the third round ends today.
Later on the show courts, No. 1 Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic (6), and American Ben Shelton (10) will play in the third round, while Mirra Andreeva (7) and Iga Świątek (8) will compete on the women's side.
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While we wait for action to resume on the outdoor courts, a reminder of the action coming up shortly on the show courts at Wimbledon — both of which have the benefit of
Centre Court (1.30pm BST/8.30am EDT start)
No. 1 Court (1pm BST/8am EDT start)
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South America is having itself a pretty solid Wimbledon, just not in the way anyone might have expected.
When the tournament started, names like Fonseca or Haddad Maia seemed far more likely for runs to the second week than the surviving South Americans.
When the dust settled Friday evening, it had two players in the rounds of 16, in Nicolás Jarry of Chile and Solana Sierra of Argentina. It’s hard to overestimate how hard they had to get there.
Jarry has barely won matches since he made the Italian Open final last year. He had to survive qualifying to earn a first-round date with Holger Rune, where he came back from two sets down to win. On Friday he beat João Fonseca, tipped for stardom when he is a little older, in four sets.
As happens sometimes at Wimbledon, the British summer weather has not held out meaning light rain has passed over SW19 in the last hour.
The covers are on and all matches have been suspended for the time being.
Naomi Osaka said she felt numb after her third-round defeat to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at Wimbledon Friday.
Osaka won the first set and looked on her way to a first fourth-round appearance at the All England Club, before eventually succumbing to a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 defeat. She is yet to reach the second week of a Grand Slam since returning to the tour for the 2024 season, following the birth of her daughter, Shai.
Asked to compare how she felt after this latest loss with her devastation at losing to Paula Badosa in the first round of Roland Garros in May, Osaka said: “In Paris, I was very emotional. Now I don’t feel anything, so I guess I’d prefer to feel nothing than everything.”
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Tauson 4-4* Rybakina — play suspended
And there it is, we have a stoppage in this match on No. 2 Court.
The rain covers are on and the players have headed inside at a fairly crucial point in this set.
The aerial shots over Wimbledon show that is the case in plenty of the other outdoor courts too.
Tauson 4-4* Rybakina
This is Tauson's fourth Wimbledon appearance and this year she has made it further than ever before.
It's a close contest between the two players after 36 minutes of action as Tauson makes another hold.
A few umbrellas are going up around the stands as Tauson slid as touch on a return there. The umpire is out of his chair to inspect the grip of the court.
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A little more drizzle has come down and the grass will be getting slippery.
Even the lightest rain can make a court incredibly dangerous to play on and the umpire will likely have a tricky judgment call to make soon.
Light drizzle over No. 2 Court as Elena Rybakina, the 2022 champion, duels with Clara Tauson, the No. 23 seed.
Rybakina's graceful power and pinpoint serve suit grass perfectly, but Tauson is having early success drawing errors from Rybakina's racket with slice.
We're underway on the outdoor courts this morning with some tantalising matches to look forward to.
Here's a pick of those that have not long got started:
Well, it's not as bright as it has been this week at Wimbledon with some low cloud descending over SW19 this morning.
The good news is that it's still warm — and a bit more of a friendly temperature at 20 degrees Celsius (68F).
There's also a bit of wind which could prove interesting for the players in action today but the good news is there isn't much risk of rain to delay play.
Good morning everyone and welcome along to another day of brilliant Wimbledon action.
We're continuing to make progress through the third round matches today and after the treat we got with some of yesterday's matches, we can't wait. If you missed anything from Wimbledon day five, have no fear — we have you covered via The Briefing.
On the agenda:
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We recommend you follow everything, with the help of our live coverage on The Athletic.
But some particularly fun under-the-radar matches on today's slate:
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That was a question asked by a tennis fan who starred on Wimbledon's returning ‘Overheard’ series which proved hugely popular last year and is already back with a bang this tournament. The series follows spectators around Wimbledon and listens in for their funny observations as a sort of alternative commentary.
“That was the surprise hit of last year,” Will Giles, content lead for the All England Club, says. It takes 24 hours to turn an episode around after five hours of filming has to be listened back through and clipped up.
As for the voice of Wimbledon, he adds they have been able to move away from being an eccentric gentleman towards a fresher, more current tone across platforms.
“When we started on social media it was probably very reserved and really played into our brand values of tradition and heritage. But what social media is a great tool for is helping change perceptions of what we are.
“And we're trying to come across as far more accessible, engaging and open to a younger audience.”
…until the scheduled start of play here at SW19.
Almost time to take a seat, relax, and enjoy our full and exhaustive coverage throughout today.
Wimbledon’s second-biggest and second-most important court, with a seating capacity of 12,345 (singer Lou Bega’s ears have perked up).
Opened in 1997, it was renovated in 2019 and has a retractable roof.
Due on it today: none other than Mirra Andreeva, facing Hailey Baptiste, Barbora Krejčíková against Emma Navarro, and Ben Shelton, playing Márton Fucsovics.
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Arguably, it’s the most famous tennis court in the world.
It is the main showpiece court, only ever used at the Wimbledon Championships (apart from the 2012 London Olympic Games), and has a capacity of 14,979.
Distinguished guests sit in the Royal Box, with a 3,000-tonne retractable roof installed in 2009.
The inscription above the entrance quotes Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’: “If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same.”
Wise words for anyone playing on it. As the likes of Novak Djokovic, Iga Świątek, and Jannik Sinner are today.
The grass-court season is short — meaning it brings additional challenges for players to master the surface.
Last year, Carlos Alcaraz said, “Every time I step on a grass court I have to learn how to move better, how to play better.” Quite the statement from someone who has won Wimbledon twice.
The issue for players is the constant change of surfaces throughout the year and that so few tournaments are played on grass.
Grass requires sometimes-staccato movements and rewards players with clean ball striking and effective serves, as well as being an ideal service for a variety of strokes, using slices and drop shots.
At the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), better known as Wimbledon, grounds staff have 88 grass courts across three venues to maintain.
The 18 match courts at Wimbledon are quiet until the tournament starts, but three miles to north-west, the 34 courts at the qualifying tournament complex in Roehampton are full of players bidding to make the main draw in the build-up to the main event.
Then there are the 16 extra practice courts at AELTC Community Centre in Raynes Park, and the 20 practice courts at Wimbledon itself, which have all been in use since June 23.
Plus there’s the added task of maintaining flowers in borders and general planting around the site. It’s a mammoth task.
