@El Loro posted:

And Katie Swan is through to the main draw at Wimbledon
Too soon to know who she will be against.

Madison Keys who is seeded 23.

As reported on the news Johanna Konta misses Wimbledon due to having to self isolate for 10 days due to one of her team testing positive.

Scheduled matches for today:
Katie Swan court 3 first match
Jodie Burrage court 5 first match
Katie Boulter court 17 first match
Heather Watson court 18 second match
Harriet Dart court 18 fourth match
Those courts are supposed to start play at 11.00 but there's rain in the area.

No play yet on any of the courts other than Centre Court and Court 1 which have roof cover because of the rain.

Various matches scheduled for today have now been cancelled - the later ones. That includes the Harriet Dart one which is now scheduled for tomorrow.

Katie Swann and Jodie Burrage lost their matches in straight sets.
Better from Katie Boulter who has just beaten Danielle Lao over 3 sets. She's up against the 2nd seed in round two.
Heather Watson's match is yet to start.

Heather Watson out in the first round losing over a close 3 sets match.

Today's scheduled matches include:
Francesca Jones v Coco Gauff (3rd match on court 2)
Sorana Cirstea v Samantha Murray Sharan (4th match on court 17)
Emma Raducanu v Vitalia Diatchenko (5th match on court 17)
Elisa Mertens v Harriet Dart (1st match on court 18)

Harriet Dart lost in straight sets.
The other 3 matches above have yet to start and may not take place today due to rain suspending play again.
Weather forecast for Wednesday to Saturday seem better for Wimbledon.
Could be problems if the organisers decide to use Sunday for matches to be played as there is the risk of showers throughout the day at present.
(as Wimbledon is grass, only a small amount of rain makes the grass too slippery to be safe for play)

Coco Gauff beat Francesca Jones who was almost equal to a player who will probably become the number one in the near future.
The other two British players due to play yesterday had their matches postponed to some time today.

Katie Boulter's second round match against the number two seed Aryna Sabalenka is the second match on Centre Court today.

Sorana Cirstea beat Samantha Murray Sharan in straight sets today in the delayed 1st round match.

Katie Boulter lost to Aryna Sabalenka in their 2nd round match but at least won a set against the number 2 seed.

Emma Raducanu and Vitalia Diatchenko are playing their 1st round match and Emma is well in the lead at present.

And Emma has just won She's 18 and this is her first Grand Slam event.
Her opponent in her second round match is Markéta Vondroušová who is ranked 41.

Emma's second round match is the last one on court 18 today.

Emma Raducanu beats Markéta Vondroušová 6-2, 6-4 and goes into the 3rd round, the only British woman this year to do so. Not bad for the 18 year old ranked 338th who was given a wild card Her ranking will improve by around 100 places at least.
Her opponent is Sorana Cirstea.

The Emma Raducanu v Sorana Cirstea 3rd round match is scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday) as the first match on Court No. 1.
Likely for the roof to be covered due to the weather. I think coverage will be on either BBC Two or BBC's Red Button channel.

And Emma is through to the fourth round beating Sorana Cirstea 6-3, 7-5

She's against Ajla Tomjanovic who has a ranking of 75.

Emma's ranking will soar from 338th to around 177th at least.

Emma's fourth round match is scheduled for tomorrow (Monday) on Court No. 1 again, the third match.

Yeah, was looking through the list of play for tomorrow. Although Norrie is out of the singles, he's still in both the Men's Doubles and the Mixed Doubles and he's playing in both tomorrow. 2nd and 4th matches on the same court!!!!

Emma Raducanu had to retire from the 4th round due to breathing difficulties which may have been caused by stress from the occasion and waiting for the previous match to finish, a 5 setter.

Emma Raducanu says the "whole experience caught up" with her but she is "feeling better".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/57737252

Joe Salisbury and Harriet Dart through to tomorrow's mixed doubles final at Wimbledon.
First time since 1987 when Jeremy Bates and Jo Durie won that an all British duo have got through to the final.

Joe Salisbury and Harriet Dart were beaten by Neal Skupski (British) and  Desirae Krawczyk (USA) in the mixed doubles final.

British rankings after Wimbledon in the top 200:
Johanna Konta 38 (from 31)
Heather Watson 69 (from 68)
Harriet Dart 167 (from 142)
Emma Raducanu 179 (from 338)
Katie Boulter 188 (from 219)

Johanna Konta has had to withdraw from the Olympics due to developing Covid-19. A replacement cannot be named due to no one other than Heather Watson has a high enough ranking so GB can't play in the women's doubles.
Andy Murray is in the Olympics due to being the defending champion rather than his ranking.

All GB tennis involvement ended today. Heather Watson had lost in the first round. No GB duo in the mixed doubles. I doubt if the high temperatures and humidity made it at all comfortable for the British players.

Emma Raducanu back in action at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic having been given a wildcard. She lost in straight sets against world number 51 Zhang Shuai.

"On the WTA Tour every match is going to be difficult and there aren't going to be many good matches," Raducanu said.

"It is my second WTA Tour tournament. What I learned is how to try and deal with someone when they are playing very well and you feel like you are not doing much wrong but you are constantly on the back foot.

"Stepping up to this level, I feel she just dictated me. If I keep going this way at some point it will pay off."

In the WTA Canadian Open, Johanna Konta through to the third round, Harriet Dart lost her second round match, and Heather Watson lost in the qualifying rounds.

In the ITF W100 tournament at Landisville, Emma Raducanu won her two qualifying rounds and has won her first round in the main draw.

Johanna Konta had to withdraw from the Candian Open with a knee injury.

In the ITF Landisville tournament, Emma Raducanu is though to the quarter finals.
ITF tournaments don't have as many ranking points as WTA ones so Emma's ranking won't rise by more than a few places,

Emma Raducanu had to withdraw during her quarter-final match for medical reasons. May be a repeat of Wimbledon

Edited 25/8/21 - she was suffering from hear exhaustion so not a repeat of Wimbledon.

The rankings which should have been released by the WTA on Monday but were late due to technical problems show that Emma Raducanu's ranking improved by 10 places to 174.

Another good week for Emma Raducanu, In the WTA 125 Chicago Challenge tournament she got to the final though lost. Her ranking has improved by 24 places to 150 and has gone ahead of Harriet Dart as the British number three.

The qualifying rounds for the US Open start tomorrow. She has just got in to a seed place as number 31 with Harriet Dart as number 32.

Emma's coming on in leaps and bounds! Hope she's now managed to get over the Wimbledon upheaval now that she has a bit more experience and confidence.

Good start to the qualifier rounds for the British women. The better known players, Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter had comfortable two set first round wins. Harriet Dart has yet to play.

Harriet Dart won her match over three sets.
The second round matches take place this evening and night.

Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter and Harriet Dart won their second round qualifying matches, the other British women players lost. One round to go in the qualifiers taking place this evening and night.

Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter through to the US main draw for their first time

Harriet Dart's match has been suspended due to the weather, she lost the first set in a tie break.

Still got a good chance then!

@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:

Still got a good chance then!

Yes, Harriet Dart went on to win her match. So 5 British women in the main draw.

First round draw:
Emma Raducanu v Jennifer Brady (seeded 13 and from the States so a tough match)
Liudmila Samsonova (ranking 52) v Katie Boulter
Carolina Garcia (ranking 61) v Harriet Dart
Kristina Mladenovic (ranking 57) v Johanna Konta
Heather Watson v Kata Juvan (ranking 109)

Johanna Konta, Heather Watson and Harriet Dart are scheduled to have their first round matches later today though there is a risk of thunderstorms.
Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter play their matches tomorrow.
Emma's match is in the Louis Armstrong Stadium (the US equivalent of Wimbledon's Number 1 Court) as it has the highest profile of the British women's matches.