Albuquerque Journal

AT A GLANCE

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A quick look at Wimbledon:

LOOKAHEAD TO TODAY’S

ACTION: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic all will be in action as Week 2 begins. So will Serena Williams. Wimbledon’s second Monday is guaranteed to be busy: This is the only Grand Slam tournament that schedules all 16 men’s and women’s fourth-round singles matches on one day’s schedule. The No. 1-seeded Federer, seeking a record-extending ninth title at the All England Club and 21st major trophy overall, opens the proceeding­s at Centre Court by taking on No. 22 Adrian Mannarino of France, who never has been to the quarterfin­als at any Slam. Federer? He’s been to the final eight 52 times. Another statistic that makes this one seem like quite a mismatch: Federer is 5-0 against Mannarino, winning 12 of the 13 sets they’ve played. Not only has Federer not lost a set in the tournament, and not only hasn’t he been broken, he hasn’t so much as faced a single break point. Mannarino, meanwhile, has converted 19 of 29 break points he’s earned as a returner, the highest success rate of anyone remaining. No. 2 seed Nadal, a two-time champion, tries to get back to the quarterfin­als at the All England Club for the first time since 2011, meeting 93rd-ranked Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic, while No. 12 Djokovic, who’s won Wimbledon three times, meets 40th-ranked Karen Khachanov of Russia. Williams will follow Federer at Centre Court, and she plays 120th-ranked qualifier Evgeniya Rodina of Russia. They are the last two mothers remaining in the singles draw of the half-dozen who started. Williams is also the lone past Wimbledon champion left in the women’s bracket; she owns seven titles, including in 2015 and 2016, the previous two times she entered the tournament. Only one of the top 10 women’s seeds remains after an upset-filled Week 1: No. 7 Karolina Pliskova, the 2016 U.S. Open runnerup. She plays the day’s first match on No. 2 Court, facing No. 20 Kiki Bertens of the Netherland­s, who eliminated Venus Williams in the third round.

OTHER MEN’S

MATCHUPS TODAY: No. 5 Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina vs. Gilles Simon of France; No. 8 Kevin Anderson of South Africa vs. Gael Monfils of France; No. 9 John Isner of the U.S. vs. No. 31 Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece; No. 13 Milos Raonic of Canada vs. Mackenzie McDonald of the U.S.; and No. 24 Kei Nishikori of Japan vs. qualifier Ernests Gulbis of Latvia.

OTHER WOMEN’S

MATCHUPS TODAY: No. 11 Angelique Kerber of Germany vs. Belinda Bencic of Switzerlan­d; No. 12 Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia vs. Aliaksandr­a Sasnovich of Belarus; No. 13 Julia Goerges of Germany vs. Donna Vekic of Croatia; Camila Giorgi of Italy vs. Ekaterina Makarova of Russia; Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan vs. Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia; and Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium vs. Daria Kasatkina of Russia.

TODAY’S FORECAST:

Sunny. High of 84 degrees (29 Celsius).

STAT OF THE DAY: 67 — Consecutiv­e service games won at Wimbledon by Federer, a streak that dates to last year’s semifinals.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Here, if you don’t have a big, big serve, you can’t feel … safe.” — Nadal.

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