Key events<\/p>\n
Preamble<\/p>\n
Wotcha one and all and welcome to Wimbledon 2026<\/a> \u2013 day two!<\/p>\n As you\u2019d expect, we\u2019ve a faintly daunting and thoroughly thrilling banquet of tennis awaiting us today, so let\u2019s dig right in.<\/p>\n Early doors, last year\u2019s double-bagelled finalist, Amanda Anisimova, gets herself and that work-of-art backhand going, with Katie Boulter<\/a> also up first. Others in action are Jasmine Paolini, Madison Keys and Donna Vekic, while Maria Sakkari\u2019s match with Clara Tauson has the potential to be a highlight.<\/p>\n Then, when No 1 gets going, Taylor Fritz takes on Dusan Lajovic \u2013 it was meant to be the bone-bruised Jack Draper \u2013 while on Centre, Iga Swiatek<\/a>, the defending champion, meets doubles specialist, Taylor Townsend.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s second on No 1 that really looks like the match of the day, Elena Rybakina, a former winner and this year\u2019s second-favourite, drawn against Lo\u00efs Boisson, surprise semi-finalist in last year\u2019s French Open.<\/p>\n Then, if to that, we add Alexander Zverev\u2019s first appearance, along with those of Ben Shelton, Eline Svitolina, Alex de Minaur, Marta Kostyuk and the in-form Jakub Mensik, we know we\u2019re flying \u2013 but of course that\u2019s not the size of it. Jacob Fearnley meets Alex Michelsen in a match that has five-set epic written all over it; the surging Arthur Fils returns after injury; Griggzy Dimitrov, so unlucky to injure himself last year when two sets up against Jannik Sinner is back; Flavio Cobolli meets Mariano Navone; and No 1 finishes for the day with an aesthete\u2019s banger, the great Stan Wawrinka beginning his final campaign against Mario Berrettini.<\/p>\n We have, though, kept the best till last: the Queen returning to her palace! Yup, four years since her last appearance, Serena Williams<\/a>, the seven-times champion and greatest of all time, is back at the age of \u2026 44 \u2013 ! \u2013 and will close out the action on Centre, facing Maya Joint for a place in round<\/p>\n Or, put another way, of all the things going on in the world today, the most exciting, the most affirming and the most inspirational is coming right up \u2013 at SW19 and in these pages. This is going to be very, very special. Here we go!<\/p>\n