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Today at Wimbledon: Sunday's order of play and who is in the Royal Box

Today at Wimbledon: Sunday's order of play and who is in the Royal Box

Telegrapha day ago
Last Britons standing Cameron Norrie and Sonay Kartal resume their campaign on Sunday as they eye a place in the quarter-finals.
Norrie, who requested to play on Court No 1, got his wish and will play Chile's Nicolas Jarry in the second match while Kartal opens the day's play on Centre Court against Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Elsewhere, world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka continues her quest for a first Wimbledon title when she takes on Elise Mertens, while two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz faces Andrey Rublev.
Argentina's Solana Sierra is the only lucky loser to make it to the women's fourth round and the 21-year-old comes up against the oldest female player left in the competition, Germany's 37-year-old Laura Siegemund.
Sunday's order of play
Centre Court
From 1.30pm
Sonay Kartal (GB) vs Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Rus)
[1] Aryna Sabalenka (Blr) vs [24] Elise Mertens (Bel)
[14] Andrey Rublev vs [2] Carlos Alcaraz (Spa)
Court No 1
From 1pm
[5] Taylor Fritz (US) vs Jordan Thompson (Aus)
Nicolas Jarry (Chn) vs Cameron Norrie (GB)
[30] Linda Noskova (Cze) vs [13] Amanda Anisimova (US)
Court No 2
From 11am
[17] Karen Khachanov (Rus) vs Kamil Majchrzak (Pol)
Not Before: 12:30pm
Solana Sierra (Arg) vs Laura Siegemund (Ger)
Who is in the Royal Box?
The guestlist for today's Royal Box has yet to be confirmed after stars from the world of sport were spotted rattling their jewellery (or were they medals?) on Saturday. Spotted in the Royal Box were former track cyclists Dame Laura Kenny and husband Sir Jason Kenny, sailor Sir Ben and his wife Lady Georgie Ainslie, Olympic rower Helen Glover, footballers Fran Kirby and Beth England and sometime shoe salesman and former footballer Jamie Redknapp.
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