Raducanu seeded in top 10 for SW19

Emma Raducanu will be seeded 10th for this year’s Wimbledon Championships. The US Open champion, who has been battling injury in the build-up to the tournament, advances one place from her world ranking due to the absence of world No 6 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.

Wimbledon announced in April that it would ban players from Russia and Belarus due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

British men’s No 1 Cameron Norrie rises three places from his ranking to be seeded ninth, while Dan Evans will be seeded 29th.

World No 1 Daniil Medvedev and Russian compatriot Andrey Rublev are both missing from the line-up, while world No 2 Alexander Zverev is also out due to injury.

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal assume the top two men’s seedings respectively, while world No 1 one Iga Swiatek tops the women’s seeds in front of Anett Kontaveit and Ons Jabeur.

Meanwhile Harriet Dart became the first British woman in five years to make the last eight in Eastbourne with a three-set victory over Marta Kostyuk in the last-16.

It continued a remarkable day for the world No 103 after she had to finish her second round match with 10th seed Jil Teichmann on Court Four but edged the decider to triumph 7-6 (7) 4-6 6-3.

Dart’s latest success over a top-25 player set up a meeting with Kostyuk and another lengthy encounter occurred but the home favourite claimed a 6-4 2-6 6-4 victory to reach the Rothesay International Eastbourne quarter-finals.

Katie Boulter pushed two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova all the way but saw her run end after a hard-fought 5-7 6-0 7-5 loss.

The world No 127 had knocked out Karolina Pliskova in the previous round to continue her impressive summer on grass and claimed the opener on Centre Court to move within one set of the quarter-finals.

But Kvitova showed her class during the second and held her nerve in the decider at Devonshire Park to dump out Boulter, who will now turn her attention to Wimbledon.

Norrie eased past Brandon Nakashima 6-4 6-2 earlier in the day for his first win on grass this summer.

The British No 1 had suffered an early exit at Queen’s Club last week but produced an accomplished display against his American opponent, breaking serve three times.

There will be no all-British meeting in the quarter-finals, though, after Dan Evans was knocked out by Maxime Cressy 7-6 6-4.

However, British No 4 Jack Draper booked a spot in the last eight with a 7-5 7-6 (3) win over Diego Schwartzman.