Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu will play fourth on Court docket One at Wimbledon on Saturday.
The match might be the two-time champion on the All England Membership’s ultimate one on the event as he nears retirement.
Murray misplaced within the males’s doubles alongside brother Jamie on Thursday earlier than an emotional farewell on Centre Court docket.
The British duo will face Marcelo Arevalo and Zhang Shuai and observe Ben Shelton and Denis Shapovalov’s resumed singles match which is opening up play.
Iga Swiatek and Yulia Putintseva and Elena Rybakina and Caroline Wozniacki will then be in ladies’s singles motion.
The timing additionally ensures soccer followers in England will doubtless to have the ability to watch the boys’s nationwide group in opposition to Switzerland within the European Championship quarter-finals earlier than switching consideration to tennis.
They kick off at 5pm BST with Raducanu and Murray unlikely to be on courtroom earlier than 7pm.
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Raducanu beat ninth seed Maria Sakkari 6-2 6-3 on Friday to succeed in the fourth spherical.
She subsequent faces qualifier Lulu Solar of New Zealand on Sunday, and might be hoping that her match with Murray doesn’t go too deep into the evening. Wimbledon, not like different Grand Slam tournaments, has an 11pm curfew.
“My doubles report isn’t precisely the longest, or essentially the most huge, however I couldn’t say no. It’s a as soon as in a lifetime alternative,” Raducanu mentioned earlier this week of the prospect to play with Murray.
“It’s a dream of mine since I used to be a younger lady, since watching the Olympics. Andy’s a hero to all of us. So for me, it’s an actual present and it’s an actual honour that he requested me and it’s a second that I might by no means say no to.
“And I’m simply tremendous excited to be on the blended doubles courtroom and hopefully be taught a factor or two about coming to the web or one thing.”
Murray is an Olympic silver medalist in blended doubles — with Laura Robson in 2012 — and 5 years in the past performed the Wimbledon occasion with Serena Williams.
“I chatted a bit with my group about it they usually mentioned what precisely are you attempting to get out of it,” Murray mentioned of the choice to pair up with Raducanu.
“Firstly we wish to be aggressive within the matches after which taking part in with one other Brit was going to be one thing that might be good and he or she’s clearly one of many high high British gamers and he or she would have been high of the checklist, yeah.”
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