HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-Wimbledon day three

Highlights of the third day at the Wimbledon tennis championships on Wednesday (times GMT): 1725 RUSSIANS RUBLEV, KHACHANOV PROGRESS

Russian 17th seed Karen Khachanov edged past Japan's Shintaro Mochizuki 1-6 7-6(7) 4-6 6-3 6-4 in a hard-fought five-setter to reach the third round. Compatriot Andrey Rublev, seeded 14th, rallied from a set down to beat South Africa's Lloyd Harris 6-7(1) 6-4 7-6(5) 6-3.

1510 NORRIE DOWNS TIAFOE Cameron Norrie became the first Briton to reach the men's third round after he fought back to upset American 12th seed Frances Tiafoe 4-6 6-4 6-3 7-5.

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1414 SABALENKA ADVANCES TO ROUND THREE World number one Aryna Sabalenka was forced to battle through a difficult opening set before going on to beat Czech Marie Bouzkova, a former Wimbledon quarter-finalist, 7-6(4) 6-4.

1330 KEYS EASES PAST DANILOVIC Australian Open champion Madison Keys fired off 19 winners to claim a 6-4 6-2 win over Serbian Olga Danilovic in an hour and 15 minutes to reach the third round.

1318 LOCAL HOPE KARTAL ADVANCES Briton Sonay Kartal sealed a comfortable 6-2 6-2 victory over Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova to move into round three.

"I felt good on court today. I was hitting it really clean. It was one of those good days at the office," Kartal said. 1155 PLAY UNDER WAY

Players walked out onto the court at the All England Club after a delay lasting over one-and-a-half hours due to rain. 1045 START FURTHER DELAYED BY RAIN

Play on all outside courts at Wimbledon will not begin until at least 1115 GMT due to rain. 1000 RAIN DELAYS START

The start of day three at Wimbledon has been pushed back by 45 minutes to 1045 GMT due to rain. The temperature is around 19 degrees Celsius and intermittent rain is expected throughout the day, after the first two days of the tournament were played in very hot and sunny conditions.

WIMBLEDON ORDER OF PLAY ON WEDNESDAY (prefix number denotes seeding) CENTRE COURT (play begins at 1230 GMT)

1-Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) v Marie Bouzkova (Czech Republic) Oliver Tarvet (Britain) v 2-Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)

Emma Raducanu (Britain) v Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic) COURT NUMBER ONE (play begins at 1200 GMT)

Cameron Norrie (Britain) v 12-Frances Tiafoe (France) Katie Boulter (Britain) v Solana Sierra (Argentina)

5-Taylor Fritz (U.S.) v Gabriel Diallo (Canada) COURT NUMBER TWO (play begins at 1000 GMT)

Olga Danilovic (Serbia) v 6-Madison Keys (U.S.) Nuno Borges (Portugal) v Billy Harris (Britain)

Naomi Osaka (Japan) v Katerina Siniakova (Czech Republic) Arthur Fery (Britain) v Luciano Darderi (Italy)

(Compiled by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)

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