Crowd favourites lined up for opening day
Last updated at 14:55 25 June 2007
Roger Federer, Tim Henman and Andy Murray are all scheduled to be in action on
day one of Wimbledon tomorrow - weather permitting.
The outlook for SW19 is not encouraging, with heavy rain forecast, although
that could work in Murray's favour as he tries to recover from a wrist injury.
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The British number one is scheduled to be third on court one against Ecuador's
Nicolas Lapentti, following Andy Roddick's match with fellow American Justin
Gimelstob and top seed Justine Henin's opener against Jorgelina Cravero of
Argentina.
Federer will begin his quest for a fifth consecutive title - equalling Bjorn
Borg's modern-day record - in the first match on Centre Court against Teimuraz
Gabashvili.
That will be followed by Henman's clash with Spain's Carlos Moya, with
Britain's Anne Keothavong then facing her daunting match with third seed Jelena
Jankovic.
Britain's Naomi Cavaday is also in action against former champion Martina
Hingis on court two, while Josh Goodall and Jamie Baker are also scheduled to
play their first-round matches again Feliciano Lopez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin
respectively.
Lee Childs will take on fellow qualifier Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and
Katie O'Brien faces Sandra Kloesel of Germany.
Murray has yet to announce whether he will definitely play or not, saying
yesterday he was "planning to play" despite still feeling pain from the wrist
injury which has sidelined him for five weeks.
He has not played since suffering a micro-tear in a wrist tendon in the Hamburg
Masters on May 15, his 20th birthday.
The Scot is confident it will not be a gamble if he decides to play.
"I've been playing some sets the last few days and haven't had any bad
reactions on my wrist," Murray said.
"Every day it's been getting better. Unless I have any bad reactions after my
practice I'm planning on playing.
"If it was at the end of the year, there were no tournaments coming up, I
probably would have taken the time off, made sure it got perfectly back.
"But I had a great start to the year, I decided that I wanted to work really
hard.
"Wimbledon was my goal to get ready for. I think I've given myself the best
chance.
"I don't think it's a hard decision. If I don't feel I'm fit enough to play
and give 100% then I won't play. I'm not going to stress about it. If my wrist
isn't right, it's not right."
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