6 key matches on Wimbledon’s opening day
Jack Draper, Nick Kyrgios and Coco Gauff are in action on Monday (PA)
Wimbledon’s two-year hiatus ends on Monday when play gets under way in the 2021 Championships.
Big names Rafael Nadal, Naomi Osaka and Simona Halep have all withdrawn but it promises to be another fascinating fortnight on the lawns of SW19.
Here, the PA news agency picks out six first-round matches that are not to be missed.
Novak Djokovic v Jack Draper
Nineteen-year-old Londoner Draper has long been marked out as Britain’s brightest young male hope. He demonstrated why by reaching the quarter-finals at Queen’s Club last week and now finds himself facing top seed Djokovic, who has not lost at Wimbledon since 2017, in the opening match on Centre Court. It is a daunting task but this will be Djokovic’s first match on grass since the 2019 final.
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