The Latest: 1st-round men's doubles reduced to best-of-3
LONDON (AP) The Latest on Wimbledon (all times local):
5:40 p.m.
With rain playing havoc with the scheduling at Wimbledon, organizers have decided that first-round men's doubles matches will be played over best-of-three sets, instead of best-of-five.
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4:40 p.m.
Novak Djokovic won his 30th consecutive Grand Slam match, the third-longest streak in the history of men's tennis, to move into Wimbledon's third round.
Playing under the closed retractable roof at Centre Court while play was suspended elsewhere at the All England Club because of rain Wednesday, the No. 1-seeded Djokovic beat France's Adrian Mannarino 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5).
Djokovic overcame eight double-faults, including one to get broken while serving for the match at 5-4 in the third set. He also slipped and fell to his back while moving up to the net in the concluding tiebreaker but appeared to be OK.
Djokovic is the two-time defending champion at Wimbledon and has won the past four major tournaments, a run that began at the All England Club a year ago.
He is halfway to the first calendar-year Grand Slam for a man since Rod Laver did it in 1969. Laver won 29 consecutive matches during that stretch, which Djokovic has now surpassed, and earlier had a 31-match streak that included another calendar Grand Slam in 1962.
The longest winning streak at majors for a man is 37 matches, set by Don Budge from 1937-38. In 1938, he completed the only true Grand Slam other than Laver's pair.
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2:20 p.m.
With the Centre Court roof closed on a rainy Day 3 at Wimbedon, third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska advanced to the second round with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Kateryna Kozlova.
Radwanska, the Wimbledon runner-up in 2012, thoroughly dominated the 97th-ranked Ukrainian in just over an hour.
Radwanska has never lost a first-round match in 11 appearances at the All England Club. Kozlova was making her main draw debut at Wimbledon.
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1:15 p.m.
The retractable roof has been closed for the opening Centre Court match on Day 3 at Wimbledon.
Third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska is playing Kateryna Kozlova in a first-round match.
Rain has disrupted play on the outside courts, with showers forecast off and on throughout the day, along with blustery winds and cool temperatures.
In one completed match, 10th-seeded Tomas Berdych finished a 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (2) win over Ivan Dodig on Court 18. The match had been suspended in progress by rain Tuesday.
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12:35 p.m.
Play has started on the outside courts at Wimbledon after a rain delay of about an hour. More rain is forecast throughout the day, however.
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11:30 a.m.
Play on the outside courts on Day 3 at Wimbledon - scheduled to start at 11:30 - has been delayed by rain.
Play on Centre Court, which has a retractable roof, is scheduled to start as normal at 1 p.m.
On Tuesday, rain forced suspension in progress or complete postponement of a total of 30 matches. That leaves Wednesday's schedule packed with a mix of first- and second-round contests.
More showers are forecast for Wednesday afternoon.
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11 a.m.
Roger Federer has never faced an opponent at Wimbledon quite like this.
The seven-time champion - perhaps the greatest player of all time - has a second-round match on Centre Court on Wednesday against a 772nd-ranked British qualifier who had never won a tour-level match until Monday.
Marcus Willis, 25, is the lowest-ranked qualifier to reach the second round of a Grand Slam since 1988. He gives tennis lessons at a club in central England and was only recently talked out of giving up on his goal of making it on the pro tour by his girlfriend.
Now, Willis gets to face Federer on the most famous court in tennis.
Up first on Centre Court will be third-seeded women's player Agnieszka Radwanska against Kateryna Kozlova. Then comes defending men's champion Novak Djokovic against Adrian Mannarino.
