Former champion Venus Williams made it on the Centre Court bill, while British home favourite Johanna Konta rounded out the order of play on Court One, which holds 11,000. That meant world number one Angelique Kerber was out on the 4,000-seater Court Two facing fellow former runner-up Garbine Muguruza, followed by former world number one Victoria Azarenka against world number two Simona Halep. Meanwhile the new French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko was on the 1,000-seater Court 12 show court. The decision to make five-time Wimbledon winner Williams the only big-name woman to play on Centre Court was a unanimous one, he said. "We felt that a former champion and one of the all-time great players deserved to be on Centre Court.

Source: dna July 10, 2017 18:00 UTC