Wimbledon 2009 Day 3 Open Thread

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It's going to be a hot day in London and we're into round two, people. Miss Maria Sharapova opens the day on Centre Court against the beautiful Gisela Dulko, followed by the Monogrammed Muskateer and a surprise appearance by Sam Querrey against No. 11 seed Marin Cilic. The AELTC has always loved tall Croats. Sam is just as tall.

On Court 1, Miss Serena Williams will play the hard-hitting, big Aussie in Missa Jarmila Groth, a player she doesn't remember playing. I do. First round, Melbourne 2007. The young woman hit the ball so flat and so hard, she had Serena wondering what was going on. Though the eventual champion still won in straight sets, it didn't seem that way. If Groth is finding the lines, Serena will have to be serving out of a tree to keep her opponent subdued.

Other matches that could be spicy: Mardy Fish vs. Janko Tipsarevic; Aravane Rezai vs. Elena Dementieva; Simone Bolelli vs. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga; Tommy Haas vs. Michael Llodra; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Roberta Vinci; Sania Mirza vs. Sorana Cirstea; Francesca Schiavone vs. Michelle Larcher de Brito; Vincent Spadea vs. Igor Andreev.

Not a bad line up for the Round of 64.

Wednesday Order Of Play

Centre Court 13:00 Start Time

1. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Maria Sharapova (RUS)[24] v. Gisela Dulko (ARG)
2. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) v. Roger Federer (SUI)[2]
3. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Sam Querrey (USA) v. Marin Cilic (CRO)[11]

Court 1 13:00 Start Time

1. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Simon Greul (GER) v. Novak Djokovic (SRB)[4]
2. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Jarmila Groth (AUS) v. Serena Williams (USA)[2]
3. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Tommy Haas (GER)[24] v. Michael Llodra (FRA)

Court 2 12:00 Start Time

1. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Mardy Fish (USA)[28] v. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)
2. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Victoria Azarenka (BLR)[8] v. Ioana Raluca Olaru (ROU)
3. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Robin Soderling (SWE)[13] v. Marcel Granollers (ESP)
4. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Aravane Rezai (FRA) v. Elena Dementieva (RUS)[4]

Court 3 12:00 Start Time

1. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Jie Zheng (CHN)[16] v. Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)
2. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Fernando Verdasco (ESP)[7] v. Kristof Vliegen (BEL)
3. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Simone Bolelli (ITA) v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)[9] (Walkover - Back)

Court 4 12:00 Start Time

1. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Tommy Robredo (ESP)[15] v. Stefan Koubek (AUT)
2. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)[31]
v. Roberta Vinci (ITA)
3. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Ivo Karlovic (CRO)[22] v. Steve Darcis (BEL)
4. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) v. Marion Bartoli (FRA)[12]

COURT 5 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Sarah Borwell (GBR) and Anne Keothavong (GBR) 47 vs
Samantha Stosur (AUS) and Rennae Stubbs (AUS) [3] 48
Taylor Dent (USA) 37 vs Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP) 38 T/F 5/7 6/7(6) 6/4 0/0 0-0*
2. Jamie Delgado (GBR) and Jonathan Marray (GBR) 59 vs
Nicolas Devilder (FRA) and Christophe Rochus (BEL) 60
3. Jocelyn Rae (GBR) and Melanie South (GBR) 27 vs
Alona Bondarenko (UKR) and Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) 28
4. Lukasz Kubot (POL) and Oliver Marach (AUT) [8] 49 vs
Jonathan Erlich (ISR) and Jamie Murray (GBR) 50

COURT 6 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Alex Bogdanovic (GBR) and James Ward (GBR) 13 vs
David Martin (USA) and Jean-Claude Scherrer (SUI) 14
2. Kaia Kanepi (EST) and Ipek Senoglu (TUR) 31 vs
Maria Kirilenko (RUS) and Flavia Pennetta (ITA) [8] 32
3. Rika Fujiwara (JPN) and Aiko Nakamura (JPN) 37 vs
Kristina Barrois (GER) and Tathiana Garbin (ITA) 38
4. Yung-Jan Chan (TPE) and Agnes Szavay (HUN) 29 vs
Vera Dushevina (RUS) and Tatiana Perebiynis (UKR) 30

Court 7 12:00 Start Time

1. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)[14] v. Urszula Radwanska (POL)
2. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Jill Craybas (USA) v. Virginie Razzano (FRA)[26]
3. Bob Bryan (USA) and Mike Bryan (USA) [1] 1 vs Dusan Vemic (SRB) and Mischa Zverev (GER) 2
4. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)[27] v. Regina Kulikova (RUS)

COURT 8 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) and Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) 7 vs
Nathalie Dechy (FRA) and Mara Santangelo (ITA) [14] 8
2. Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) and Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 13 vs
Liga Dekmeijere (LAT) and Viktoriya Kutuzova (UKR) 14
3. Agustin Calleri (ARG) and Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) 35 vs Sergio Roitman (ARG) and Martin Vassallo
Arguello (ARG) 36
4. Max Mirnyi (BLR) and Andy Ram (ISR) [7] 33 vs
Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) and Travis Rettenmaier (USA) 34

COURT 9 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Eva Hrdinova (CZE) and Nicole Vaidisova (CZE) 53 vs
Julie Ditty (USA) and Ekaterina Dzehalevich (BLR) 54
2. Martin Damm (CZE) and Robert Lindstedt (SWE) [15] 41 vs
Jose Acasuso (ARG) and Sebastian Prieto (ARG) 42
3. Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) and Lucie Hradecka (CZE) 63 vs Anabel Medina
Garrigues (ESP) and Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) [2] 64
4. Leos Friedl (CZE) and David Skoch (CZE) 7 vs Rik De Voest (RSA) and Ashley Fisher (AUS) [14] 8

COURT 11 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Frantisek Cermak (CZE) and Michal Mertinak (SVK) [13] 57 vs Lucas Arnold
Ker (ARG) and Frederico Gil (POR) 58
2. Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) and Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 53 vs
Christopher Kas (GER) and Viktor Troicki (SRB) 54
3. Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) and Amelie Mauresmo (FRA) [16] 41 vs
Tatjana Malek (GER) and Andrea Petkovic (GER) 42

Court 12 12:00 Start Time

1. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Dudi Sela (ISR) v. Rainer Schuettler (GER)[18]
2. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Sania Mirza (IND) v. Sorana Cirstea (ROU)[28]
3. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Nicolas Almagro (ESP) v. Karol Beck (SVK)
4. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Francesca Schiavone (ITA) v. Michelle Larcher De Brito (POR)

Court 14 12:00 Start Time

1. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Shahar Peer (ISR) v. Nadia Petrova (RUS)[10]
2. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Elena Vesnina (RUS) v. Vera Dushevina (RUS)
3. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)[27] v. Ivo Minar (CZE)
4. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Andreas Seppi (ITA) v. Marc Gicquel (FRA)

COURT 15 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) and Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 61 vs
Lucie Safarova (CZE) and Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE) 62
2. Philipp Petzschner (GER) and Alexander Peya (AUT) 19 vs
Petr Pala (CZE) and Radek Stepanek (CZE) 20
3. Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER) and Vania King (USA) [12] 25 vs
Melinda Czink (HUN) and Natalie Grandin (RSA) 26
4. Wesley Moodie (RSA) and Dick Norman (BEL) [9] 25 vs
James Auckland (GBR) and Joshua Goodall (GBR) 26

COURT 17 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) and Mark Knowles (BAH) [4] 17 vs
Kevin Anderson (RSA) and Somdev Devvarman (IND) 18
Prakash Amritraj (IND) and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 23 vs
Stephen Huss (AUS) and Ross Hutchins (GBR) [16] 24 T/F 6/4 6/7(12) 6/4 3/6 0/0 0*-0
2. Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP) and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) [11] 9 vs
Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB) and Julie Coin (FRA) 10
3. Pablo Cuevas (URU) and Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 39 vs
Travis Parrott (USA) and Filip Polasek (SVK) [10] 40

Court 18 12:00 Start Time

1. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP) v. Ai Sugiyama (JPN)
2. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Guillermo Canas (ARG) v. Albert Montanes (ESP)[32]
3. Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Vera Zvonareva (RUS)[7] v. Mathilde Johansson (FRA)
4. Gentlemen's Singles - 2nd Round
Vincent Spadea (USA) v. Igor Andreev (RUS)[29]

COURT 19 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Yves Allegro (SUI) and Fabrice Santoro (FRA) 15 vs
Bruno Soares (BRA) and Kevin Ullyett (ZIM) [5] 16
2. Rajeev Ram (USA) and Lovro Zovko (CRO) 55 vs Marcelo Melo (BRA) and Andre Sa (BRA) [11] 56
3. Maria Elena Camerin (ITA) and Anna Chakvetadze (RUS) 45 vs
Edina Gallovits (ROU) and Katalin Marosi (HUN) 46

COURTS TO BE ARRANGED

Not before 5.00 pm
[B]Cara Black (ZIM) and Liezel Huber (USA) [1][/b] 1 vs Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) and Abigail Spears (USA) 2
Jade Curtis (GBR) and Anna Smith (GBR) 43 vs Laura Robson (GBR) and Georgie Stoop (GBR) 44