Wimbledon 2021: Barty, Federer, Norrie and Gauff all in action – live!

10.16am BST

Just when you think you couldn’t love him any more.

10.15am BST

Andy Murray, though.

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10.13am BST

Centre Court (from 1.30pm BST)

Ash Barty [1] v Anna Blinkova

10.00am BST

One of sport’s most affirming joys is the emergence of new talent, young people discovering and realising themselves in front of the world. We saw it in 2001 when Roger Federer beat Pete Sampras and we saw it in 2019 when Coco Gauff beat Venus Williams.

Both of those are playing today, Federer hanging on the final remnants of his genius and Gauff still exploring who she can be. But we have potential elsewhere too: the 17-year-old Carlos Alcaraz, a bona fide, blue-chip talent, takes on Daniil Medvedev, the number two seed, while Felix Auger-Aliassime – though he has staganed of the last couple of years, – is more of the same, and in recent times there’ve been signs that the penny is dropping.

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