Wimbledon day five
LONDON : Highlights of the fifth day at the Wimbledon tennis championships on Friday (times GMT):
1213 PAVLYUCHENKOVA ELIMINATES OSAKA
Four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka was unable to capitalise on a bright start in the first set as former French Open finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova fought back to win 3-6 6-4 6-4 and reach the fourth round.
1210 LUCKY LOSER SIERRA REACHES FOURTH ROUND
Argentina's Solana Sierra became the first lucky loser to reach the fourth round in the women's singles at Wimbledon, beating Spain's Cristina Bucsa 7-5 1-6 6-1.
1005 PLAY UNDER WAY
Play began under clear skies at the All England Club with the temperature hovering around 22 degrees Celsius (71.6°F) and expected to climb up to 27 degrees Celsius later in the day.
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Djokovic easing into old routine as seeds hit back at Wimbledon
Cilic plays dream-wrecker to British hopes by toppling fourth seed Draper
Sinner thrashes Vukic to roar into Wimbledon third round
One for the purists as Dimitrov beats Moutet to reach third round
Evans embraces the moment as Djokovic delivers ruthless lesson
Swiatek fights back to down McNally and reach third round
Rybakina swats aside Sakkari to reach Wimbledon third round
From Grand Slam to grand struggle, Krejcikova lives to fight on
Brilliant Djokovic hits flow state to crush Britain's Evans
WIMBLEDON ORDER OF PLAY ON FRIDAY (prefix number denotes seeding)
CENTRE COURT (play begins at 1230 GMT)
5-Taylor Fritz (U.S.) v 26-Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Jan-Lennard Struff (Germany) v 2-Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)
1-Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) v Emma Raducanu (Britain)
COURT NUMBER ONE (play begins at 1200 GMT)
Diane Parry (France) v Sonay Kartal (Britain)
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