Wimbledon Day 3: Djokovic Into the Second Round as the Draw Begins to Take Shape

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Novak Djokovic moved through to the second round at Wimbledon on his own scheduled day after his unusual Day 1 appearance alongside celebrity supporter Bad Bunny in his player box. The seven-time champion's progress, combined with Sinner's uncomfortable but successful first round win and Sabalenka's smooth start, establishes the tournament's likely upper half narrative through the second week. Djokovic placed in Sinner's half of the draw means a potential semi-final between the two most successful men's players of the current era on the grass of the All England Club, with the context that Sinner has won the last two Grand Slams and Djokovic is chasing his 25th.

The Ben Shelton upset has opened the bottom half of the draw somewhat, with the American fourth seed departing in the first round and leaving Zverev as the most prominent remaining threat in that section. Fritz, who inherited Draper's position in the draw after the Briton's arm injury withdrawal, is now seeded to face Zverev in the quarter-finals, a match that Fritz has won seven consecutive times and which would be one of the most anticipated quarterfinals of the fortnight if both advance.

On the women's side, Sabalenka's straightforward path and the absence of Raducanu and Vondrousova concentrates attention on a smaller group of likely finalists. Iga Swiatek's grass-court development remains the central question about whether she can convert her clay-court dominance into a Wimbledon title. Mirra Andreeva at 18 has drawn exceptional attention from analysts who believe she is temperamentally and technically ready to go deep at a Grand Slam on a surface that rewards her ball-striking rather than the slower clay where her power is somewhat neutralised.

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