2014 Wimbledon Starts Today Monday June23,2014

Wimbledon opens today after a weekend of above-average temperatures, with a summery 25C (77F) across the South East yesterday.
Forecasters predict that the weather will remain sunny and warm for the next three days, but temperatures will be more usual for this time of year at around 21C (70F).
Scores of tennis fans pitched tents outside the All England Club in Wimbledon in a bid to get tickets ahead of the opening while sun-seekers had packed out beaches along the south coast by lunchtime.
An estimated 50,000 people filled the seven-mile beach at Bournemouth, Dorset, and it was even pleasant in the waves with water temperatures reaching 15C (59F). 

Tennis fans arrived in Wimbledon yesterday with plenty of camping gear as they prepared to queue overnight in an attempt to get tickets for the tournament in the morning

Members of the public queue up for tickets during day one of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon.

Several tennis fans looked like they were flagging in the heat as they queued outside Wimbledon

Tennis fans were basking in the sunshine outside Wimbledon having already set up camp in 'The Queue' ahead of the start of the tournament today

 

Imogen Davies with Rufus the 6 year old Harris Hawk, who scares away pigeons away from centre court during day one of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon.

MONDAY'S ORDER OF PLAY

Centre Court, 1pm
Andy Murray (GB,3) v David Goffin (Bel)
Paula Kania (Pol) v Li Na(Chn, 2)
Novak Djokovic (Ser, 1) v Andrey Golubev (Kaz)

No 1 Court, 1pm
Victoria Azarenka (Blr, 8) v Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (Cro)
Grigor Dimitrov (Bul, 11) v Ryan Harrison (US)
Jurgen Melzer (Aut) v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fr, 14)

No 2 Court
Victor Hanescu (Rom) v Tomas Berdych (Cz, 6)
Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor (Sp) v Venus Williams (US, 30)
Andrey Kuznetsov (Rus) v Daniel Evans (GB)
Andreea Mitu (Rom) v Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol, 4)

No 3 Court
Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) v Samantha Stosur (Aus, 17)
Mikhail Youzhny (Rus, 17) v James Ward (GB)
Pablo Carreno Busta (Sp) v David Ferrer (Sp, 7)
Petra Kvitova (Cz, 6) v Andrea Hlavackova (Cz)

Court 12
Johanna Konta (GB) v Shuai Peng (Chn)
Dustin Brown (Ger) v Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp)
Andreas Haider-Maurer (Aut) vs Kyle Edmund (GB)
Caroline Wozniacki (Den, 16) v Shahar Peer (Isr)

Court 18
Sloane Stephens (US, 18) v Maria Kirilenko (Rus)
Jeremy Chardy (Fr) v Daniel Cox (GB)
Alex Kuznetsov (US) v Fabio Fognini (It, 16)
Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus, 28) v Michelle Larcher De Brito (Por)

Court 4
Elena Vesnina (Rus, 32) v Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (Aut)
Andreas Seppi (It, 25) v Leonardo Mayer (Arg)
Jana Cepelova (Svk) v Flavia Pennetta (It, 12)
Bradley Klahn (US) v Sam Querrey (US)

Court 5
Pablo Andujar (Sp) v Blaz Rola (Slo)
Filippo Volandri (It) v Edouard Roger-Vasselin (Fr)
Stefanie Vögele (Swi) v Jarmila Gajdosova (Aus)
Tereza Smitkova (Cz) v Su-Wei Hsieh (Tpe)

Court 6
Ana Konjuh (Cro) v Marina Erakovic (NZ)
Vania King (US) v Yvonne Meusburger (Aut)
Steve Johnson (US) v Roberto Bautista Agut (Sp, 27),
Donald Young (US) v Benjamin Becker (Ger)

Court 7
Polona Hercog (Slo) v Paula Ormaechea (Arg)
Lauren Davis (US) v Alisa Kleybanova (Rus)
Teymuraz Gabashvili (Rus) v Tim Puetz(Ger)
Coco Vandeweghe (US) v Garbine Muguruza (Sp, 27)

Court 8
Marinko Matosevic (Aus) v Fernando Verdasco (Sp, 18)
Bernard Tomic (Aus) v Evgeny Donskoy (Rus)
Mona Barthel (Ger) v Romina Oprandi (Swi)

Court 9
Alla Kudryavtseva (Rus) v Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (Cz)
Jimmy Wang (Tai) v Alejandro González (Col)
Radek Stepanek (Cze) v Pablo Cuevas (Uru)
Anett Kontaveit (Est) v Casey Dellacqua (Aus)

Court 10
Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) v Carlos Berlocq (Arg)
Lucie Safarova (Cz, 23) v Julia Görges (Ger)
Tobias Kamke (Ger) v Jan Hernych (Cz)

Court 11
Misaki Doi (Jpn) v Elina Svitolina (Ukr)
Johanna Larsson (Swe) v Bojana Jovanovski (Ser),
Luke Saville (Aus) v Dominic Thiem (Aut)

Court 16
Konstantin Kravchuk (Rus) v Gilles Simon (Fr),
Kevin Anderson(SA,20) v Aljaz Bedene (Slo)
Naomi Broady (GB) v Timea Babos(Hun)
Sara Errani (It, 14) v Caroline Garcia (Fr)

Court 17
Kimiko Date-Krumm (Jpn) v Ekaterina Makarova (Rus, 22)
Kurumi Nara (Jpn) v Anna-Lena Friedsam (Ger)
Marin Cilic (Cro, 26) v Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fr)
Samuel Groth (Aus) v Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukr, 21)

Court 19
Ernests Gulbis (Lat, 12) v Jurgen Zopp (Est)
Robin Haase (Neth) v Vasek Pospisil (Can, 31),
Monica Niculescu (Rom) v Alison Van Uytvanck (Bel)

The Wimbledon Championships, the third Grand Slam tournament of the season, will take place in London, England. 

Andy Murray hopes to defend his title after becoming the first British men’s singles champion for 77 years. 

The women’s tournament is guaranteed a new champion following the retirement of Marion Bartoli. 

This year’s singles champions at Wimbledon will each receive £1.76 million ($2.9 million) after overall prize money was increased to £25m ($42m), up 10.8 percent on 2013.

 

Roger Federer will look to claim a record eigth title. Rafael Nadal, on the other hand, will be gunning to go past Pete Sampras's record of 14 Grand Slam titles.