Wimbledon News

Red-hot world No. 1 Serena Williams has been installed as the top seed at Wimbledon, which will get underway Monday at on the famed grass courts at the venerable All England Club.

Play begins on Monday, June 24 and ends on Sunday, July 7 at the All England Club in London.

5 at Wimbledon, setting up the possibility of a quarterfinal match against Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray.

Who can a woman turn to when everything falls apart? Her mother, of course - even if, in Li Na's case, it necessitated a 12-hour flight from Paris to China after her early exit from the French Open.

TAUNTON'S Lucy Shuker, who reached the final of the wheelchair doubles at the Wimbledon championships last year, will be have a new partner for next month's event.

The 33-year-old struggled with the problem during the clay-court season and has not played since withdrawing from the doubles at Roland Garros with sister Serena.

China's Li Na began her grass season with just six days left before the start of Wimbledon, with the sixth seed beating Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Eastbourne International on Tuesday.

French Open finalist David Ferrer lost his first-round match Tuesday at the Topshelf Open, a grass-court tournament held the week before Wimbledon.

The 100th-ranked Johnson will be playing in the singles at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament for the first time since becoming a full-time professional last summer.

Only three British men made it through the first round of Wimbledon qualifying at the Bank of England sports club in Roehampton on Monday.

Serena Williams won her second French Open earlier this month, and celebrated by relaxing on the beaches of Miami over the weekend.

Wimbledon can hold no fear for Agnieszka Radwanska this year, after she survived all the way to the final last July.

Somdev, who is ranked 78 places above the Reid at 135, frittered away a good start to lose 6-7 , 6-4, 16-18.

In the category of no rest for the weary, yet another Grand Slam event will swing into action next week when Wimbledon commences, with Roger Federer as the defending champion.

Two seeded players were knocked out of the men's event at the grass-court Topshelf Open and a third was struggling before rain caused a suspension of play on Monday.

Elena Vesnina beat seventh-seeded Ana Ivanovic of Serbia 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Monday in the first round of the grass-court Aegon International.

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The Aegon Championships are on the lowest tier of competitions on the men's tour, but winning the title here on Sunday must have felt like one of the more significant of the 27 tournament triumphs of Andy Murray's career.