Daily Times (Primos, PA)

AT A GLANCE

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A quick look at Wimbledon: LOOKAHEAD TO THURSDAY Rafael Nadal owns 17 Grand Slam titles and Novak Djokovic 12. Both are scheduled to play in the second round Thursday against opponents with no such hardware. The No. 2-seeded Nadal will open the day’s schedule at Centre Court against 77th-ranked Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan. 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. 2Court. 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 suspended Wednesday because of rain: No. 3 Marin Cilic, No. 8 Kevin Anderson, No. 9 John Isner and Stan Wawrinka. In women’s action, No. 1 Simona Halep, No. 3 Garbine Muguruza and No. 22 Johanna Konta highlight the schedule. THURSDAY’S FORECAST Cloudy. Chance of rain. High of 79. WEDNESDAY’S KEY RESULTS Men’s second round: No. 1 Roger Federer beat Lukas Lacko 6-4, 6-4, 6-1; No. 11 Sam Querrey beat

Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-6(4), 6-3, 6-3; Dennis Novak beat No. 17 Lucas Pouille 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (8), 3-6, 6-2.

Women’s second round: Ekaterina Makarova beat No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 1-6, 7-5; No. 7 Karolina Pliskova beat Victoria Azarenka 6-3, 6-3; No. 9 Venus Williams beat Alexandra Dulgheru 4-6, 6-0, 6-1; No. 25 Serena Williams beat Viktoriya Tomova 6-1, 6-4. STAT OF THE DAY 61: Aces hit by Ivo Karlovic in 6-7 (5), 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 13-11 loss to Jan-Lennard Struff.

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