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Today’s featured matches

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Rafael Nadal owns 17 Grand Slam titles, including two at Wimbledon. Novak Djokovic has won 12 majors, three at the All England Club. Both are scheduled to play in the second round Thursday against opponents with no such hardware on their resumes. The No. 2-seeded Nadal will open the day's schedule at Centre Court against 77th-ranked Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan, who has been as far as the fourth round at a major once and lost his opening matches at the Australian Open and French Open this year. Nadal has won all three of their previous matchups. Djokovic, a former No. 1 who is seeded 12th, can become only the fifth man in the profession­al era to collect 60 wins at Wimbledon by beating 126th-ranked Horacio Zeballos of Argentina on No. 2 Court. Zeballos has been past the second round at a Grand Slam tournament only once, getting to the fourth round at the 2017 French Open. Plus, Djokovic has never lost to someone ranked as low as Zeballos at a major and is 1-0 in their lone head-to-head meeting. Another Grand Slam champion in action on Day 4 is 2009 U.S. Open winner Juan Martin del Potro, facing Feliciano Lopez, who is participat­ing in his record 66th consecutiv­e major. Among those resuming matches that were suspended Wednesday because of rain in the evening: No. 3 Marin Cilic ,No.8 Kevin Anderson ,No.9 John Isner and three-time major champion Stan Wawrinka .In women's action, No. 1 Simona Halep ,No.3 Garbine Muguruza and No. 22 Johanna Konta highlight the schedule.

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