\n Tarvet is two wins away from a meeting with the seven-time champion following this morning’s draw at the All England Club.\n<\/p>\n
\n He once again came through qualifying, sealing his place in the main draw with a straight sets win over Greece’s Stefanos Sakellaridis in Roehampton on Thursday (June 25).\n<\/p>\n
\n Oliver Tarvet (Image: Jordan Petitt\/PA)\n<\/p>\n
\n Before he can dream of a Centre Court date with Djokovic, the 22-year-old from St Albans must first get past 25th seed Arthur Rinderknech on Monday (June 29).\n<\/p>\n
\n The Frenchman has fond memories of the Wimbledon grass, taking out French Open champion Alexander Zverev at this stage last year.\n<\/p>\n
\n If the former Marlborough Science Academy student gets past Rinderknech, the winner of a tie between Marco Trungelliti and Martin Damm would be all that stands between Tarvet and a shot at the Serbian superstar.\n<\/p>\n
\n Of course, Djokovic – now 39 – would also need to win his first two matches in order to set up a meeting with the Brit that would take place a week from today (July 3).\n<\/p>\n
\n Novak Djokovic practicing at Wimbledon on Thursday (June 25) (Image: Adam Davy\/PA)\n<\/p>\n
\n Hertfordshire tennis fans will remember Tarvet’s first taste of Centre Court, which saw him put in a valiant effort against reigning champion Carlos Alcaraz in last year’s second round, losing 6-1 6-4 6-4.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n He will be hoping the experience stands him in good stead for his return to SW19, telling the Press Association: \u201cIt definitely was a surreal experience, but I feel like I did a pretty good job of not letting the moment get too big and still producing some good tennis out there.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Elsewhere, the draw threw up a tantalising first round tie between American sixth seed Taylor Fritz and Britain’s Jack Draper, who is making his return from injury and is now coached by Sir Andy Murray.\n<\/p>\n
\n In the women’s draw, all eyes will be on the return of Serena Williams to the singles court after four years away. The 44-year-old has been handed a relatively kind opener against Australian Maya Joint. Britain’s Emma Raducanu remains an injury doubt but is scheduled to ger her campaign under way against Antonia Ru\u017ei\u0107 of Croatia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarvet is two wins away from a meeting with the seven-time champion following this morning’s draw at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-660770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}