Wimbledon 2011 Day 5 Open Thread

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Tennis fans wear hats featuring the cups during the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Tennis Club, in southwest London on June 23, 2011.

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Both Andy's are on Centre Court today, and both of them will be given stiff enough challenges to cause potential upsets. In my own brackets, I saw them both making this round and bowing out. The American Andy is playing far better than I would have suspected, his wife is in the stands, and his parents are attending Wimbledon for the first time in his career, so he might fight off the Spaniard after all, but the Scottish Andy's level has dropped tremendously from his efforts at Queens. The veteran Croatian knows how to beat top players when he puts his mind to it. Should be interesting.

Sandwiched in between a resurgent Daniela Hantuchova faces a sketchy Victoria Azarenka. I predicted the one who retires from matches routinely would make another quarterfinal here, but not I'm not so sure. Dani can do it if she keeps her head.

On Court 1, more potential upsets loom. You don't really pick against Venus Williams at Wimbledon, but the tricky lefty from Spain can give anyone fits when she feels like it. The umpire better watch her carefully. And the defending champion will face the last player not named Federer to beat him at SW19. As a friend posted elsewhere yesterday, "I'm never convinced any player is going to win against Gilles Muller at a slam." I believe Rafa will ultimately prevail, but he may need to go the distance.

Wimbledon 2011
Schedule for Day 5: Friday 24 June 2011-Partial Schedule

Centre Court 13:00 Start Time

[8]Gentlemen's Singles - 3rd Round
Feliciano Lopez(ESP) vs. Andy Roddick(USA)
Ladies' Singles - 3rd Round
Daniela Hantuchova(SVK)[25] vs. Victoria Azarenka(BLR)[4]
Gentlemen's Singles - 3rd Round
Andy Murray(GBR)[4] vs. Ivan Ljubicic(CRO)

No. 1 Court 13:00 Start Time

Ladies' Singles - 2nd Round
Laura Robson(GBR) vs. Maria Sharapova(RUS)[5]
Ladies' Singles - 3rd Round
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez(ESP) vs. Venus Williams(USA)[23]
Gentlemen's Singles - 3rd Round
Rafael Nadal(ESP)[1] vs. Gilles Muller(LUX)

COURT 2 - SHOW COURT - 12.00 NOON START

1. Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) [1] vs Virginie Razzano (FRA)
2. David Ferrer (ESP) [7] vs Ryan Harrison (USA) T/F 6/7(6) 6/1 4/6 4/2 0*-0
3. Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) [32] vs Vera Zvonareva (RUS) [2]
4. Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) [24] vs Gilles Simon (FRA) [15]

COURT 3 - SHOW COURT - 12.00 NOON START

1. Marion Bartoli (FRA) [9] vs Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP)
2. Igor Andreev (RUS) vs Bernard Tomic (AUS) T/F 6/4 7/5 3/6 0/0 0*-0
3. Gael Monfils (FRA) [9] vs Lukasz Kubot (POL)

COURT 14 - 12.00 NOON START

Nadia Petrova (RUS) vs Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR)
Ksenia Pervak (RUS) vs Andrea Petkovic (GER) [11]
Richard Gasquet (FRA) [17] vs Simone Bolelli (ITA)