Wimbledon 2018 - LIVE: Serena Williams in action, Roger Federer wins, plus order of play, results and latest scores

Wimbledon 2018 - day three: Order of play, prize money, how to get tickets, everything you need to know.

Today sees the second round begin at The Championships.

Serena Williams is in action on Centre Court, with Karolina Pliskova opening play against Victoria Azarenka. Carolina Wozniacki and Venus Williams are meanwhile in action on Court One, while Agnieszka Radwanska’s match against Lucie Safarova is not to be missed.

Roger Federer will of course be in action too – he takes on Lukas Lacko of Slovenia. Marin Cilic plays Guido Pella on Court One, with Andreas Seppi up against Kevin Anderson on Court Two.

Follow all the live coverage below:

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17:47

Second seed Caroline Wozniacki became the biggest casualty of the tournament so far as she was a second-round loser to Ekaterina Makarova.

 

The Dane, who won in Eastbourne last week, lost to the Russian 6-4 1-6 7-5 on Court One.

 

Wozniacki's exit means half of the top 10 seeds have been dumped out in the opening two rounds.

17:47

Serena Williams enjoyed her Centre Court return and comfortably made her way into the third round.

 

The seven-time champion had not graced the main show court since her 2016 final win over Angelique Kerber but it was like she had never been away against unseeded Viktoriya Tomova.

 

Williams was in total control and overpowered the Bulgarian to win 6-1 6-4.

17:30

Caroline Wozniacki might (and I mean MIGHT) have just turned her match around with Ekaterina Makarova. The Russian had match point at 5-3 but Australian Open turned play around to break her opponent. It's now 5-4 with the Dane to serve. What an escape this would be.

17:27

Tomova is putting up more of a fight in the second set. After being a break point down, she clung on to take the game back to deuce before then going on to win it. Williams to serve up next.

17:10

Madison Keys finds big-serving men racking up the points as they belt down one ace after another boring, the American admitted at Wimbledon on Wednesday.

 

Tenth-seeded Keys, who reached the third round with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Luksika Kumkhum of Thailand, is one of the biggest servers on the women's circuit.

 

Her compatriots Sam Querrey and John Isner are among the biggest servers in the men's game but Keys was not too complimentary of their ability to pound their way past opponents.

 

"I'm going to be totally honest with you. I find it kind of boring," the 23-year-old told reporters.

 

"Sorry, but just because it seems like they just hit like 312 aces a match."

17:09

Oh dear, we look set for our latest shock of the tournament. Caroline Wozniacki is currently 4-1 in the third and final set of her match against Ekaterina Makarova. 

 

Elsewhere, Kevin Anderson won the first set 6-1 in his clash with Andreas Seppi on No.2 Court.

 

And Williams is still cruising in her match. She's 2-1 up in the second set.

16:53

Make that 5-1...

 

She sealed the point with a fierce overhead volley that Tomova could only stand and watch. After a somewhat cagey opening set against Rus in the first round, this is far more dominant from the American.

16:51

Serena Williams is currently out on Centre Court where she's up against Viktoriya Tomova. She leads 4-1 in the first set and looks to be finding her stride.

16:48

Gael Monfils overcame Paolo Lorenzi 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) to set up a third-round meeting with 2017 Wimbledon semifinalist Sam Querrey. 

 

After hitting just four winners in the opening set, the 44th-ranked Monfils improved to a total of 49 for the match and reached the third round at the All England Club for the seventh time in his career. 

 

The Frenchman has never been beyond that stage and to do so will have to defeat 11th-seeded Querrey. 

 

Querrey earlier eased past Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the third round for a third successive year. 

 

Last year Querrey defeated Andy Murray to reach his first Grand Slam semifinal, where he was defeated by Marin Cilic. 

16:20

Roger Federer outclasses Lukas Lacko to reach third round of Wimbledon

16:12

Game. Set. Match.

Federer 6-4 6-4 6-1 Lacko

 

Wow. That was scarily easy for the Swiss. He put in a typically flawless display to brush aside the Slovakian who was unable to put up any form of fight, going down in straight sets. Federer is through to the third round and looking as brilliant as ever. Given his form so far, it's hard to see at the moment who will deny him a ninth Wimbledon title.

 

16:06

Federer 6-4 6-4 5-1 Lacko

 

We're going through the motions here. Federer has been simply too much for the Slovak. Home time soon, Roger.

15:51

Federer 6-4 6-4 1-0 Lacko

 

Federer has taken the second set - that didn't take long at all. To his credit, Lacko hasn't proven to be a complete walkover - though I sense this final set is where the gulf in quality between the two men will be properly exposed.

 

Indeed, the Slovakian has been immediately broken in this third set, throwing away his serve with an unforced error that looped far behind the white line.

15:44

Second seed Caroline Wozniacki has taken to action on Court One against Ekaterina Makarova.

 

After breaking her Glad Slam duck earlier this year, the Dane will be looking to claim a maiden title here at SW19. She's not exactly made the best of starts in this second-round match, though. The Australian Open champion is currently two games down against the Russian.

15:41

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Oh, look, another hilarious joke from Rob Beckett. He's a funny one, isn't he.

 

15:35

Federer 6-4 3-2 Lacko

 

Federer's backhand really is a thing of beauty. He injects so much whip and power into it, without seemingly trying at all. Positioned on the left of the court, he fizzes the ball across the face of his opponent with an arcing sweep to send Lacko scrambling to make the return. Alas, it's in vain. The Swiss keeps his foot on the jugular and pushes on to force the break. 

15:28

Madison Keys revealed after her win that she's now supporting England at the World Cup. The more on the bandwagon the merrier, I say.

 

"I watched England play last night," she said. "I was actually watching with Laura. She was singing the 'it's coming home' song consistently for, like, two-and-a-half hours.

 

"Where I am in the Village I can hear the Rose & Crown. My TV was ahead of theirs, so something would happen and Laura would scream, and then, like, five seconds later the whole pub would scream. I was actually into it at the very end. So now I'm cheering for England."

15:22

Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams once again dropped the opening set, and once again dominated the rest of the way to win. 

 

The No 9 seed, at 38 the oldest woman in the draw, came back to beat 141st-ranked qualifier Alexandra Dulgheru of Romania 4-6, 6-0, 6-1 to reach the third round at the All England Club. 

 

Williams got broken in the first game and did not recover in the opening set, in which she made 12 unforced errors, twice as many as Dulgheru. Nine of those were errant forehands. 

 

 

But the American, the runner-up at Wimbledon a year ago, then won seven games in a row. 

 

In the first round, Williams started by ceding a tiebreaker against 58th-ranked Johanna Larsson before taking 12 of the last 15 games. 

15:20

15:19

Federer 6-4 Lacko

 

And that's the first set. Federer in full control and showing no signs of taking his foot off the pedal. Easy as pie.

 

 

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Order of play:

CENTRE COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START

1 Karolina Pliskova (CZE) [7] 65 vs Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 68

2 Roger Federer (SUI) [1] 1 vs Lukas Lacko (SVK) 3

3 Viktoriya Tomova (BUL) 102 vs Serena Williams (USA) [25] 104

No.1 COURT - SHOW COURT - 13:00 START

1 Alexandra Dulgheru (ROU) 77 vs Venus Williams (USA) [9] 80

2 Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 126 vs Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) [2] 128

3 Marin Cilic (CRO) [3] 33 vs Guido Pella (ARG) 36

No.2 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START

1 John Millman (AUS) 45 vs Milos Raonic (CAN) [13] 48

2 Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) [32] 121 vs Lucie Safarova (CZE) 124

3 Andreas Seppi (ITA) 30 vs Kevin Anderson (RSA) [8] 32

4 Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) 85 vs Barbora Strycova (CZE) [23] 88

No.3 COURT - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START

1 Katie Swan (GBR) 70 vs Mihaela Buzarnescu (ROU) [29] 72

2 Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) 22 vs Gael Monfils (FRA) 23

3 Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) 62 vs Stan Wawrinka (SUI) 63

4 Tatjana Maria (GER) 98 vs Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 100

COURT 12 - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START

1 Luksika Kumkhum (THA) 109 vs Madison Keys (USA) [10] 112

2 Sam Querrey (USA) [11] 17 vs Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) 19

3 John Isner (USA) [9] 49 vs Ruben Bemelmans (BEL) 52

4 Katerina Siniakova (CZE) 114 vs Ons Jabeur (TUN) 116

COURT 18 - SHOW COURT - 11:30 START

1 Lucas Pouille (FRA) [17] 41 vs Dennis Novak (AUT) 44

2 Kiki Bertens (NED) [20] 73 vs Anna Blinkova (RUS) 76

3 Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) [31] 57 vs Jared Donaldson (USA) 60

COURT 5 - 11:30 START

1 Ana Bogdan (ROU) / Kaitlyn Christian (USA) 43 vs Yingying Duan (CHN) / Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 44

2 Taro Daniel (JPN) / Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) 37 vs Antonio Sancic (CRO) / Andrei Vasilevski (BLR) 38

3 Dominic Inglot (GBR) / Franko Skugor (CRO) [15] 41 vs Marton Fucsovics (HUN) / Mischa Zverev (GER) 42

COURT 6 - 11:30 START

1 Mirza Basic (BIH) / Dusan Lajovic (SRB) 35 vs Fabrice Martin (FRA) / Purav Raja (IND) 36

2 Shuko Aoyama (JPN) / Jennifer Brady (USA) 51 vs Darija Jurak (CRO) / Qiang Wang (CHN) 52

3 Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) / Nicolas Mahut (FRA) [4] 17 vs Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP) / Marco Cecchinato (ITA) 18

4 Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Yifan Xu (CHN) [6] 49 vs Alison Riske (USA) / Olga Savchuk (UKR) 50

COURT 7 - 11:30 START

1 Anett Kontaveit (EST) / Monica Puig (PUR) 39 vs Nicole Melichar (USA) / Kveta Peschke (CZE) [12] 40

2 Matteo Berrettini (ITA) / Maximilian Marterer (GER) 29 vs 4 Roman Jebavy (CZE) / Andres Molteni (ARG) 30

3 Maria Irigoyen (ARG) / Carina Witthoeft (GER) 59 vs Kaia Kanepi (EST) / Andrea Petkovic (GER) 60

4 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) / Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) [9] 9 vs David Ferrer (ESP) / Marc Lopez (ESP) 10

COURT 8 - 11:30 START

1 Rebecca Peterson (SWE) 94 vs Donna Vekic (CRO) 95

2 Mackenzie McDonald (USA) 38 vs Nicolas Jarry (CHI) 39

3 Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) [25] 25 vs Gilles Muller (LUX) 27

COURT 9 - 11:30 START

1 Andre Begemann (GER) / Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 55 vs Pablo Cuevas (URU) / Marcel Granollers (ESP) [11] 56

2 Christina McHale (USA) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 29 vs Naomi Broady (GBR) / Asia Muhammad (USA) 30

3 Katie Boulter (GBR) / Katie Swan (GBR) 23 vs Lucie Hradecka (CZE) / Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) [14] 24

4 Elise Mertens (BEL) / Demi Schuurs (NED) [8] 33 vs Sorana Cirstea (ROU) / Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) 34

COURT 10 - 11:30 START

1 Robin Haase (NED) / Robert Lindstedt (SWE) 39 vs Ivan Dodig (CRO) / Rajeev Ram (USA) [10] 40

2 Sofia Kenin (USA) / Sachia Vickery (USA) 5 vs Nicola Geuer (GER) / Viktorija Golubic (SUI) 6

3 Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) / Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) 7 vs Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) / Monica Niculescu (ROU) [13] 8

4 Max Mirnyi (BLR) / Philipp Oswald (AUT) [16] 57 vs Julio Peralta (CHI) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 58

COURT 11 - 11:30 START

1 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) / Samantha Stosur (AUS) 3 vs Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) / Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) 4

2 Liam Broady (GBR) / Scott Clayton (GBR) 45 vs Frances Tiafoe (USA) / Jackson Withrow (USA) 46

3 Matthew Ebden (AUS) / Taylor Fritz (USA) 13 vs Peter Gojowczyk (GER) / Benoit Paire (FRA) 14

4 Maria Sakkari (GRE) / Donna Vekic (CRO) 53 vs Xinyun Han (CHN) / Luksika Kumkhum (THA) 54

COURT 14 - 11:30 START

1 Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 106 vs Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) 107

2 Adrian Mannarino (FRA) [22] 9 vs Ryan Harrison (USA) 11

3 Julia Goerges (GER) [13] 81 vs Vera Lapko (BLR) 83

4 Jay Clarke (GBR) / Cameron Norrie (GBR) 5 vs Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI) 6

COURT 15 - 11:30 START

1 Jonathan Erlich (ISR) / Marcin Matkowski (POL) 61 vs Jonathan Eysseric (FRA) / Hugo Nys (FRA) 62

2 Ivo Karlovic (CRO) 5 vs Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) 7

3 Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) / Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 21 vs Danielle Collins (USA) / Jessica Moore (AUS) 22

COURT 16 - 11:30 START

1 Ken Skupski (GBR) / Neal Skupski (GBR) 11 vs Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) / Damir Dzumhur (BIH) 12

2 Aljaz Bedene (SLO) 53 vs Radu Albot (MDA) 55

3 Belinda Bencic (SUI) / Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) 19 vs Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) / Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP) 20

COURT 17 - 11:30 START

1 Andrea Petkovic (GER) 90 vs Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 92

2 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 13 vs Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 15

3 Madison Brengle (USA) 118 vs Camila Giorgi (ITA) 119

4 Alex Bolt (AUS) / Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 7 vs Raven Klaasen (RSA) / Michael Venus (NZL) [13] 8

MATCHES TO BE ARRANGED

NOT BEFORE 17.00

Raquel Atawo (USA) / Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER) [11] 25 vs Xenia Knoll (SUI) / Anna Smith (GBR) 26

Luke Bambridge (GBR) / Jonny O'Mara (GBR) 63 vs Lukasz Kubot (POL) / Marcelo Melo (BRA) [2] 64

Ysaline Bonaventure (BEL) / Bibiane Schoofs (NED) 31 vs Hao-Ching Chan (TPE) / Zhaoxuan Yang (CHN) [7] 32