Top seed Aryna Sabalenka takes on Britain's Emma Raducanu, while American Taylor Fritz faces Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina when the third round at Wimbledon begins on Friday.

It should be an entertaining fifth day at the Championships as the third round gets underway at Wimbledon. As always, we here at LWOT will be offering our predictions for all eight matches on the slate,

Welcome to the Wimbledon briefing, where will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament. On day three, the top half of the women’s draw went down to two seeds, the rain did nothing to deter the Wimbledon queue and an American master of the serve survived again.