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HIGHLIGHTS-Day One at Wimbledon

ByReuters

Published 27/06/2016 at 12:39 GMT

Latest news from the first day of Wimbledon on Monday (all times GMT):

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1205 CILIC TAKES SECOND SET AGAINST BAKER
Men's number nine seed Marin Cilic wins the second set to lead American Brian Baker 6-3 7-5.
1159 STOSUR THROUGH TO SECOND ROUND
Women's 14th seed Samantha Stosur secured her passage into the second round by beating Poland's Magda Linette 7-5 6-3.
1150 BEGU BUNDLED OUT BY WITTHOEFT
Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu became the first seeded player to exit the tournament. The women's number 25 seed lost 6-1 6-4 to Germany's Carina Witthoeft.
1144 LISICKI BEATS ROGERS
Sabine Lisicki, a women's singles finalist at Wimbledon in 2013, breezed past American Shelby Rogers 6-1 6-3.
1132 RUSSIA'S KASATKINA EASES PAST AMERICAN DUVAL
Russia's Daria Kasatkina, the women's 29th seed, took 51 minutes to beat American Victoria Duval 6-0 7-5 and win the first match of the championship.
1030 PLAY BEGINS ON MAIN SHOWCOURTS
Play began on the main showcourts on a partly cloudy day at Wimbledon with the temperature at 21 degrees Celsius (69.8 Fahrenheit)
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ORDER OF PLAY (PREFIX DENOTES SEEDING)
Centre Court
1-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) v James Ward (Britain)
Camila Giorgi (Italy) v 2-Garbine Muguruza (Spain)
3-Roger Federer (Switzerland) v Guido Pella (Argentina)
Court One
8-Venus Williams (U.S.) v Donna Vekic (Croatia)
Sam Groth (Australia) v 5-Kei Nishikori (Japan)
Laura Robson (Britain) v 4-Angelique Kerber (Germany)
Court Two (play starts at 1030 GMT)
Kyle Edmund (Britain) v Adrian Mannarino (France)
Laura Siegemund (Germany) v 9-Madison Keys (U.S.)
Pablo Carreno Busta (Spain) v 6-Milos Raonic (Canada)
5-Simona Halep (Romania) v Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Slovakia) (Compiled by Simon Jennings and Nivedita Shankar in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)
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