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Wimbledon: Gauff, Nadal return to Centre Court

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Looking ahead to Saturday at Wimbledon, Coco Gauff and Rafael Nadal will be back on Centre Court on Day 6.

Gauff will face another American, Amanda Anisimova, in the third round at the All England Club. Nadal, a two-time Wimbledon champion, will play Lorenzo Sonego.

In between those matches, another two-time champion at the grass-court Grand Slam, Petra Kvitova, will take on fourth-seeded Paula Badosa. French Open champion Iga Swiatek will play her third-round match on No. 1 Court against Alize Cornet. After that match, fourth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas will play Nick Kyrgios.

SATURDAY’S FORECAST: Cloudy. High of 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius).

THURSDAY’S KEY RESULTS: Women’s Third Round — No. 3 Ons Jabeur beat Diane Parry 6-2, 6-3; Tatjana Maria beat No. 5 Maria Sakkari 6-3, 7-5; No. 12 Jelena Ostapenko beat Irina-Camelia Begu 3-6, 6-1, 6-1; No. 24 Elise Mertens beat No. 15 Angelique Kerber 6-4, 7-5; Marie Bouzkova beat No. 28 Alison Riske 6-2, 6-3; Heather Watson beat Kaja Juvan 7-6 (6), 6-2; Caroline Garcia beat No. 33 Zhang Shuai 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5); Jule Niemeier beat Lesia Tsurenko 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Men’s Second Round — Jack Sock beat Maxime Cressy 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (1).

Men’s Third Round — No. 1 Novak Djokovic beat No. 25 Miomir Kecmanovic 6-0, 6-3, 6-4; No. 5 Carlos Alcaraz beat No. 32 Oscar Otte 6-3, 6-1, 6-2; No. 9 Cam Norrie beat Steve Johnson 6-4, 6-1, 6-0; No. 10 Jannik Sinner beat No. 20 John Isner 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-3; Tim van Rijthoven beat No. 22 Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-4, 6-3, 6-4; No. 23 Frances Tiafoe beat Alexander Bublik 3-6, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3), 6-4; No. 30 Tommy Paul beat Jiri Vesely 6-3, 6-2, 6-2; David Goffin beat Ugo Humbert 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, 7-5.

STAT OF THE DAY: 13,729. That’s the number of aces John Isner hit to set the record for most on the men’s tour. Isner finished with 24 aces in his third-round loss to Sinner.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Tunisians. They came up with that I think few years ago, one or two years ago. Funny because a minister in Tunisia comes like, ‘Hello, Minister.’ It was funny, but it’s nice to be called that.” — Jabeur on being nicknamed “Minister of Happiness” back home in Tunisia.

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