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Wimbledon 2016 order of play day three: Marcus Willis faces Roger Federer

Marcus Willis
Marcus Willis of Great Britain has been handed a tea-time slot on Centre Court with Roger Federer. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

The rank outsider and British No23, Marcus Willis, has been handed a Centre Court appearance, tournament organisers announced when releasing Wednesday’s order of play.

Willis, who wrote one of the most unlikely stories in the tournament’s history after he beat the world No54 Ricardas Berankis on Monday to book a dream encounter with Roger Federer, sits third on the schedule for the main show court, after matches involving Agnieszka Radwanska and Novak Djokovic.

The tea-time slot means millions of viewers across Britain will be able to watch Willis on television.

Centre Court

13:00: (3) Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) v Kateryna Kozlova (Ukr), (1) Novak Djokovic (Ser) v Adrian Mannarino (Fra), (3) Roger Federer (Swi) v Marcus Willis (Gbr)

Court 1

13:00: Monica Puig (Pur) v (16) Johanna Konta (Gbr), Grigor Dimitrov (Bul) v (16) Gilles Simon (Fra), Andreas Seppi (Ita) v (6) Milos Raonic (Can)

Court 2

11:30: Fernando Verdasco (Spa) v (19) Bernard Tomic (Aus), Daniel Evans (Gbr) v (30) Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukr), (5) Simona Halep (Rom) v Francesca Schiavone (Ita), Jana Cepelova (Svk) v (2) Garbine Muguruza (Spa)

Court 3

11:30: (8) Dominic Thiem (Aut) v Florian Mayer (Ger), Tsvetana Pironkova (Bul) v (7) Belinda Bencic (Swi), (9) Marin Cilic (Cro) v Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr), (8) Venus Williams (USA) v Maria Sakkari (Gre)

Court 4

11:30: Horacio Zeballos (Arg) v Mikhail Youzhny (Rus), Ekaterina Makarova (Rus) v Johanna Larsson (Swe), Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Ger) & Kveta Peschke (Cze) v Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) & Roberta Vinci (Ita), (10) Raquel Atawo (USA) & Abigail Spears (USA) v Chin-Wei Chan (Tpe) & Xinyun Han (Chn)

Court 5

11:30: Su-Wei Hsieh (Tpe) v (21) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Rus), (18) Sloane Stephens (USA) v Shuai Peng (Chn), Andrey Kuznetsov (Rus) v Gilles Muller (Lux), (9) Yi Fan Xu (Chn) & Saisai Zheng (Chn) v Darija Jurak (Cro) & Anastasia Rodionova (Aus)

Court 6

11:30: Donald Young (USA) v Leonardo Mayer (Arg), Pierre-Hugues Herbert (Fra) v Damir Dzumhur (Bih), Mona Barthel (Ger) v (26) Kiki Bertens (Ned), Nao Hibino (Jpn) & Alicja Rosolska (Pol) v (13) Vania King (USA) & Alla Kudryavtseva (Rus)

Court 7

11:30: Evgeniya Rodina (Rus) v Lesia Tsurenko (Ukr), Thomaz Bellucci (Bra) v (28) Sam Querrey (USA), Jeremy Chardy (Fra) v Steve Johnson (USA)

Court 8

11:30: (18) John Isner (USA) v Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp), (11) Timea Bacsinszky (Swi) v Luksika Kumkhum (Tha), (20) Sara Errani (Ita) v Alize Cornet (Fra), (28) Lucie Safarova (Cze) v Samantha Crawford (USA)

Court 9

11:30: Julia Boserup (USA) v Tatjana Maria (Ger), Mandy Minella (Lux) v Anna Tatishvili (USA), Yaroslava Shvedova (Kaz) v (17) Elina Svitolina (Ukr)

Court 10

11:30: Albano Olivetti (Fra) v Matthew Barton (Aus), Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Blr) v (31) Kristina Mladenovic (Fra), (27) Jack Sock (USA) v Robin Haase (Ned), Carina Witthoeft (Ger) v Kurumi Nara (Jpn)

Court 11

11:30: Federico Del Bonis (Arg) v Fabio Fognini (Ita), (15) Karolina Pliskova (Cze) v Misaki Doi (Jpn), Anna-Lena Friedsam (Ger) v Ekaterina Alexandrova (Rus)

Court 12

11:30: Heather Watson (Gbr) v Annika Beck (Ger), Eugenie Bouchard (Can) v Magdalena Rybarikova (Svk), Julien Benneteau (Fra) v (5) Kei Nishikori (Jpn), Varvara Lepchenko (USA) v (4) Angelique Kerber (Ger)

Court 14

11:30: Jiri Vesely (Cze) v Igor Sijsling (Ned), Anett Kontaveit (Est) v (24) Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (Cze), (22) Jelena Jankovic (Ser) v Marina Erakovic (Nzl), Lara Arruabarrena (Spa) v (29) Daria Kasatkina (Rus)

Court 15

11:30: Karin Knapp (Ita) v Ana Konjuh (Cro), Monica Niculescu (Rom) v Aleksandra Krunic (Ser), Denisa Allertova (Cze) v (12) Carla Suarez Navarro (Spa)

Court 16

11:30: (24) Alexander Zverev (Ger) v Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra), Nicolas Mahut (Fra) v (13) David Ferrer (Spa), Kirsten Flipkens (Bel) v (9) Madison Keys (USA), Tara Moore (Gbr) & Conny Perrin (Swi) v Mariana Duque-Marino (Col) & Monica Puig (Pur)

Court 17

11:30: (32) Andrea Petkovic (Ger) v Nao Hibino (Jpn), (32) Lucas Pouille (Fra) v Marius Copil (Rom), Lukas Lacko (Svk) v (23) Ivo Karlovic (Cro)

Court 18

11:30: Ivan Dodig (Cro) v (10) Tomas Berdych (Cze), (10) Petra Kvitova (Cze) v Sorana Cirstea (Rom), (11) David Goffin (Bel) v Edouard Roger-Vasselin (Fra), (14) Samantha Stosur (Aus) v Sabine Lisicki (Ger)

Court 19

11:30: Gastao Elias (Por) v Radu Albot (Mol), Nicolas Almagro (Spa) v Denis Istomin (Uzb), (14) Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spa) & Arantxa Parra Santonja (Spa) v Barbora Krejcikova (Cze) & Katerina Siniakova (Cze)

Court TBA

Yen-Hsun Lu (Tpe) & Janko Tipsarevic (Ser) v Marcin Matkowski (Pol) & Leander Paes (Ind)

Wesley Koolhof (Ned) & Matwe Middelkoop (Ned) v Aliaksandr Bury (Blr) & Igor Zelenay (Svk)

Brydan Klein (Gbr) & Alexander Ward (Gbr) v (15) Martin Cuevas (Uru) & Marcel Granollers (Spa)

(12) Treat Huey (Phi) & Max Mirnyi (Blr) v Pablo Carreno-Busta (Spa) & Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa)

(3) Hao-Ching Chan (Tpe) & Yung-Jan Chan (Tpe) v Ashleigh Barty (Aus) & Laura Robson (Gbr)

(6) Andrea Hlavackova (Cze) & Lucie Hradecka (Cze) v Chen Liang (Chn) & Yafan Wang (Chn)

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