Wimbledon 2025: Draper, Swiatek, Sinner and Gauff in action on day two – live

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On 2 and 12, we’ve had early breaks, Cocciaretto, having opted to receive, up 2-1 on Pegula, and Tuason leading Watson by the same score.

Paul, yet to settle, hands Monday two break points … which he hands straight back. From there, the hold is quickly secured.

Thinking of Paul more generally, though, he’s in the same section of the draw as Sinner. There’s not loads else there, so he’ll be wondering if, finally, he can beat someone better than him on the biggest stage.

I’m not overly familiar with Johannus Monday, but what I think we saw yesterday – via the medium of British victories – is the depth in the game. There are so many players who can play great tennis, or who have potentially definitive weapons, that we should never be surprised when someone less heralded wins a match we didn’t expect them to. Monday, say, has a a big swinging lefty serve, and he holds in game one to lead Paul 1-0.

Email! “Why do they not start until 1:00 and 1:30 on the main courts?” wonders Ben Duxbury. “Every year they end up with matches not finishing - why not just start at 12:00? I’d be pretty miffed if i’d paid £100 for a ticket and didn’t get three matches. Even Test cricket manages to start at 11:00.”

I guess it’s too allows those with show-court tickets to make a day of it, arriving to watch matches elsewhere in the knowledge that the play won’t be over by late afternoon.

Our players are out around the grounds. It’s a beautiful sight to behold.

Will Pegula ever win a major? I fear the answer is no, and there’s no shame in that. What will rankle, though, is how many inferior players have managed one, and we can’t even make the excuse that her problem is the lack of definitive weapons. I mean, that’s part of it, of course, but does Emma Raducanu have one? Sofia Kenin? Bianca Andreescu? And so on…

But back to the immediate future, which are the matches I’ll watch when play gets under way at 11am? I think we’ll go with:

Cocciaretto v Pegula (3)

Monday v Paul (13)

Tauson (23) v Watson

De Minaur (11) v Carballes Baena

We may, though, swap in Michelsen (3) v Kecmanovic at some point.

Of course, he might not have to: if Alcaraz doesn’t play better than he did yesterday, he’ll be making no finals. Except we know he’s almost certain to improve, the win over Fognini simply reminding us how brilliant he is at finding a way to impose his will. Which is to say that Sinner will have seen what happened, tantalised himself with hope and, now it’s been extinguished, must ensure he’s as focused as he needs to be.

Jannik Sinner, then. One thing we know about elite sportsfolk is that mentally, they’re different to the rest of us, able to deliver the best of themselves under the most intense pressure. But after losing from a seemingly impregnable position in the French Open final we can be certain he’ll be feeling a way: having lost his last five matches against Carlos Alcaraz, will he really believe he can beat him on grass?

It’s a million degrees outside, and some moron has come back from Glastonbury with a minger of a head-cold. What a world.

On the other hand, Shaboozey covering Bob is worth every litre of sweat.

Spectators queue in the shade and take cover from the sun. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

Preamble

Wotcha and welcome to Wimbledon 2025 – day two!

After yesterday’s frankly ridiculous opening dig, it’s my solemn duty to announce that awaiting us over the next 12 hours is nothing other than more of the same … but different.

The Clash once sung about being lost in the supermarket and that’s how today feels: so many potential choices it’s hard to know where to begin. Perhaps with Johannus Monday against Tommy Paul, or Clara Tauson versus Heather Watson … except what of Alex de Minaur, who meets Roberto Carballes Baena, or Alex Michelsen who takes on Miomir Kecmanovic? And that’s just the opening set of outside-court matches!

Otherwise, we’ve got Barbora Krejcikova beginning the defence of her title; Jannik Sinner returning after his Roland Garros desolation; two bangers – Arthur Rinderknech v Alexander Zverev and the final set of Taylor Fritz v Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard – held over from yesterday; Alexandre Muller v Novak Djokovic, Jack Draper v Sebastian Baez, Daria Yastremska v Coco Gauff; and potentially the funnest match of the lot between Petra Kvitova and Emma Navarro.

And if, to that, we add Jessica Pegula, Ben Shelton, Lorenzo Musetti, Mirra Andreeva, Qinwen Zheng, Dan Evans v Jay Clarke, and Iga Swiatek seeking to right herself after a miserable season, we have some sense of the glorious chaos just waiting to absorb us.

Play: outside courts 11am BST, No 1 Court 1pm BST, Centre Court 1.30pm BST