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Rain suspends Wimbledon play early Saturday
Play is suspended at Wimbledon early on Saturday due to rain.
The first two men's singles matches scheduled are Emil Ruusuvuori against Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and 16th seed Ugo Humbert against Brandon Nakashima. In the second of those matches, play will resume with the start of the fourth-set tie-break, with Humbert leading 7-6(9), 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-6.
[ATP APP]Ninth seed Alex de Minaur has advanced to the fourth round by walkover. Lucas Pouille, the former No. 10 in the PIF ATP Rankings, has withdrawn due to an abdominal injury.
De Minaur has matched his best result at The Championships, having also made the fourth round at SW19 in 2022. The Australian will next play Arthur Fils or Roman Safiullin.
Centre Court and No. 1 Court will both have action beginning in the afternoon regardless of the rain. Fourth seed Alexander Zverev faces Cameron Norrie on Centre Court at 1:30 p.m. The German leads their Lexus ATP Head2Head series 5-0.
Fourteenth seed Ben Shelton and Denis Shapovalov resume their match on No. 1 Court at 1 p.m., with Shelton leading 3-2.
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