The Brit pack aiming to be smash hits at SW19

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ALJAZ BEDENE

Age 26 Born Ljubljana, Slovenia Ranked 55 Career prize money £1.1m Wimbledon record Won 1, Lost 3 1st rnd Richard Gasquet (Fra), ranked 10 Bedene switched his nationality to Britain in 2015 having lived in Hertfordshire for seven years. Never been past the second round and faces a tough ask against the seventh seed.

LIAM BROADY

Age 22 Born Stockport Ranked 234 Career prize money £158,000 Wimbledon record Won 1, Lost 1 1st rnd Andy Murray (Gbr), ranked 2 Broady was a junior Wimbledon finalist in 2011 and has a plum draw after being given a wild card. Has not faced Murray before.

KYLE EDMUND

Age 21 Born Johannesburg, South Africa Ranked 68. Career prize money £497,000 Wimbledon record Won 0, Lost 3. 1st rnd Adrian Mannarino (Fra), ranked 54 The ‘other’ member of the Great Britain team that famously won the Davis Cup final against Belgium in Ghent last November, though he lost his match in five sets to David Goffin.

DAN EVANS

Age 26 Born Birmingham Ranked 95 Career prize money £419,000 Wimbledon record Won 0, Lost 3 1st rnd Jan-Lennard Struff (Ger), ranked 89 The ‘bad boy’ of British tennis is looking for his first win at Wimbledon. Past misdemeanours include not turning up to an event and last month he was docked a point for swearing.

BRYDAN KLEIN

Age 26 Born Perth, Australia Ranked 185 Career prize money £322,000 Wimbledon record Won 0, Lost 1 1st rnd Nicolas Mahut (Fra), ranked 50 Klein will have his work cut out against grass-court specialist Mahut. He lost to Andreas Seppi in straight sets in his only previous Wimbledon match a year ago and this is a tough start.

ANDY MURRAY

Age 29 Born Glasgow, Scotland Ranked 2 Career prize money £34.2million Wimbledon record Won 46, Lost 9 1st rnd Liam Broady (Gbr), ranked 234. Second seed Murray is bidding for his second Wimbledon title following success in 2013, and his third Grand Slam overall. Reunited with coach Ivan Lendl, he’s just won a record fifth Queen’s Club crown.

JAMES WARD

Age 29 Born London Ranked 177 Career prize money £798,000 Wimbledon record Won 3, Lost 6 1st rnd Novak Djokovic (Ser), ranked 1 The 6ft3ins Londoner is a 25/1 longshot to topple world No1 Djokovic who is favourite to win his fifth consecutive Grand Slam at SW19. Ward, 29, is the fifth highest-ranked Briton.

ALEX WARD

Age 26 Born Northampton Ranked 244 Career prize money £94,000 Wimbledon record Won 0, Lost 0 1st rnd David Goffin (Bel), ranked 11 Granted a wild card after rising up the world rankings from outside the top 500 to No244 in a year. Will be a big underdog against 11th seed Goffin though the Belgian’s Wimbledon record is patchy.

MARCUS WILLIS

Age 25 Born Slough Ranked 708 Career prize money £69,500 Wimbledon record Won 0, Lost 0 1st rnd Ricardas Berankis (Lit), ranked 53 The world No 775 has already enjoyed a magnificent Wimbledon by winning six matches in qualifying to reach the main draw. It’ll be the first tour-level match of the 25-year-old’s career.

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NAOMI BROADY

Age 26 Born Stockport. Ranked 84 Career prize money £435,000 Wimbledon record Won 1, Lost 4 1st rnd Elina Svitolina (Ukr), ranked 19 The glamour girl of British tennis, she was once stripped of LTA funding after posting pictures of a night out when she was a teenager. Faces a tough draw against 17th seed Svitolina.

JOHANNA KONTA

Age 25 Born Sydney, Australia. Ranked 18 Career prize money £1.27m Wimbledon record Won 0, Lost 4 1st rnd Monica Puig (Pue), ranked 43 Seeded 16th, she is the first British woman to be seeded at Wimbledon since Jo Durie in 1984. Konta has never won a singles match at the All-England club but reached the final at Eastbourne last week.

TARA MOORE

Age 23 Born Hong Kong. Ranked 229 Career prize money £198,000 Wimbledon record Won 0, Lost 2 1st rnd Alison van Uytvanck (Bel), ranked 132 Hong Kong-born player given a wild card despite exiting at the first round stage in her two previous outings at Wimbledon. Grass suits Moore’s game and she reached the quarter-finals at Nottingham.

LAURA ROBSON

Age 22 Born Melbourne, Australia. Ranked 294 Career prize money £1m Wimbledon record Won 4, Lost 6 1st rnd Angelique Kerber (Ger), ranked 4 The former Wimbledon girls’ champion has seen her career derailed by serious wrist problems but will be boosted by the knowledge she defeated fourth seed Kerber at Wimbledon in 2011.

KATIE SWAN

Age 17 Born Bristol. Ranked 441 Career prize money £17,000 Wimbledon record Won 0, Lost 0 1st rnd Timea Babos (Hun), ranked 45 Still only 17, she has already played Federation Cup tennis for Great Britain and is tipped for big things. Given a wildcard to face Babos, who reached a Wimbledon ladies’ doubles final in 2014.

HEATHER WATSON

Age 24 Born Guernsey. Ranked 50 Career prize money £1.48m Wimbledon record Won 5, Lost 6 1st rnd Annika Beck (Ger), ranked 44 A graduate of the famed Nick Bollettieri tennis school, Watson was a junior US Open champion in 2009 and also the first British woman to win a WTA title since the 1980s.