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Coco Gauff couldn’t help noticing it as she arrived at Wimbledon and walked past the champions’ wall. On the grass-courts of SW19, the past seven tournaments have produced seven different winners of the women’s title, and not all of them have been the usual names, either. “Sometimes this tournament looks a little bit different,” said the world No 1 Iga Swiatek. “Players that are also sometimes underdogs can win it, I feel. The chance is bigger.”

Certainly, there isn’t a player in the draw who carries the weight of Swiatek at the French Open, where the Pole last month won a third title in a row, looking unbeatable on her favourite surface. But the transition from clay to grass has proved challenging. Swiatek’s preparations weren’t helped by having to withdraw from her only warm-up tournament on grass in Berlin, as she cited “overall physical and mental fatigue” following her dominant clay-court stretch.

Alexander Zverev believes he can win Wimbledon and says the tournament is the most open it has been in 20 years. The German fourth seed has reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open and final of the French Open this season, but his best result at Wimbledon is only the fourth round.

“It’s the first time I really feel like I’m here to be a competitor, to maybe win the title,” he said. “I didn’t feel like that previous years when I came here. I didn’t feel like I was capable. I didn’t believe I was capable.

“I also do think this is the most open Wimbledon Championship that we maybe had in 20 years in terms of favourites, in terms of potential winners. I think there’s multiple guys who have a very decent chance of going deep and very decent chance of winning the tournament.

I don’t think it has been like that for maybe 20 years since before Roger started playing, right? After Roger came Rafa, Novak, Andy. It was always a very limited amount of guys who were actually able to compete and to win the tournaments.

“I really feel it’s different this year. I really feel like I can say I’m one of those guys who is going to do everything they can.

“Is it a tournament where maybe I need a bit more luck and maybe a few things to go my way, a few things to happen? Yes, definitely. More than maybe at other Grand Slams.

“If those things all come into place, if all those things maybe go my way for once, do I believe I can win? Then yes, I can.”

Third seed Aryna Sabalenka says she is “not 100 per cent fit” for Wimbledon. Sabalenka was forced to retire from her match in Berlin last week, and has been struggling with a shoulder injury.

Sabalenka said there is a “chance” she is unable to play her opening match on Monday.

“I’m not 100 per cent fit now,” she said.” We’re doing everything we can with my team to make sure I’ll be able to play my first match here.

“It’s really a specific injury, and it’s really a rare one. Probably I’m just the second or the third tennis player who injured that muscle.

“Yeah, that’s a very frustrating one. The most annoying thing is that I can do anything. I can practice, I can hit my groundstrokes. I’m struggling with serving. That’s really annoying. You don’t feel like you’re injured.

“If you give me some weights, I’m going to go lift some weights. But if you tell me to serve, I’m going to go through pain. We did an MRI, we did everything. We did a lot of rehab, a lot of treatments and everything.”

CENTRE COURT – SHOW COURT – 13:30 START

Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) [3] vs Mark Lajal (EST) 1

Ekaterina Alexandrova [22] vs Emma Raducanu (GBR) 2

Caroline Dolehide (USA) vs Coco Gauff (USA) [2] 3

No.1 COURT – SHOW COURT – 13:00 START

Aleksandar Kovacevic (USA) vs Daniil Medvedev [5] 1

Emina Bektas (USA) vs Aryna Sabalenka [3] 2

Jannik Sinner (ITA) [1] vs Yannick Hanfmann (GER) 3

10:30-12:15 – Live coverage – BBC Two

11:00-21:00 – Live coverage of outside courts – BBC Red Button

12:15-13:00 – Live coverage – BBC One

13:00-21:00 – Live coverage – BBC Two

14:00-18:00 – Live coverage – BBC One

21:00-22:00 – Today at Wimbledon – BBC Two

Wimbledon will be shown on the BBC in the UK, with full coverage of the tournament available to watch on BBC One, BBC Two and across the BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website.

Wimbledon begins on Monday 1 July 2024.

The Championships will conclude on the weekend of July 13 and 14, with the women’s singles final on the Saturday and the men’s singles final following on the Sunday.

Raducanu missed last year’s Wimbledon after undergoing surgery on both wrists and an ankle but has showed glimpses of form this grass-court season, including the first top-10 win of her career against Jessica Pegula at Eastbourne.

The former US Open champion has taken a wildcard ahead of her first Wimbledon match in two years and meets Russian 22nd seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in the first round. Alexandrova reached the Wimbledon fourth round last year and could be a tough opponent.

Elsewhere, Alcaraz will open play on Centre Court against qualifier Mark Lajal, the World 262. Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic to win his first Wimbledon title last year and has since added a third grand slam of his career at the French Open last month.

Jannik Sinner, Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka are among the other stars involved on the first Monday of the tournament, while British wildcard Charles Broom has landed a big-name opponent against three-time grand slam champion Stan Wawrinka.

Here’s Monday’s order of play and schedule ahead of Wimbledon

A shoulder injury was the latest and most painful physical problem for Draper, forcing him to miss the whole grass-court season and dropping his ranking back outside the top 100.

“It was really difficult,” he said. “I obviously didn’t just miss this one. I missed Queen’s, the whole grass. I think I sat on my couch for most of it, just kind of really frustrated, watching all the matches.

“I watched the (Liam) Broady-(Casper) Ruud match, which was amazing to see Broads doing well. I watched the full final, which was hard to watch obviously someone so young winning the title, showing what he’s capable of.

“It really, really motivated me and was actually I think a blessing in disguise because my body wasn’t ready. I don’t think mentally I was ready either to be a top player. It was a good break that I needed to rediscover the fire I needed. From there, I’ve been great.”

Emma Raducanu heads into Wimbledon full of confidence but played down expectations for her first match on Monday.

The former US Open champion has been in fine form on the British grass, reaching the semi-finals in Nottingham before losing to Katie Boulter in a very tight contest and then claiming her first win over a top-10 opponent against Jessica Pegula on her way to the Eastbourne quarter-finals.

She is one of the more dangerous unseeded players, but the draw was not kind, with Russian 22nd seed Ekaterina Alexandrova, who has decent grass-court pedigree, her opening opponent.

“If I get through my first round, I’d be over the moon,” said Raducanu.

“I think it’s a tough match. She’s seeded really well. It’s obviously going to be hard. I think that she’s got great weapons. On this surface, it only amplifies big weapons.”