Annabel Croft
Former British number one on BBC Radio 5 Live

Sabalenka is playing it quite cool at the moment. She is sauntering around and taking deep breaths. That sliced backhand from Raducanu is wreaking a little bit of havoc.

Sabalenka is trying to be aggressive but Raducanu is showing her in the first few points that she is ready to stand up against her.

Aryna Sabalenka holds, but enough there to suggest Emma Raducanu can have an impact in this match under the roof on Centre Court.

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Aryna Sabalenka goes just wide with a forehand on game point so it'll be deuce in the opener.

And Emma Raducanu pounces all over a Sabalenka serve with an 82mph forehand return winner.

Break point to the Briton... but a solid serve by the Belarusian takes it back to deuce.

A positive start from Emma Raducanu as she outlasts Aryna Sabalenka, who is serving first, in a long rally to win the first point of the match.

Sabalenka replies well with some strong serving - before I'm momentarily distracted by a large group of runners passing by our office window with a Natasha Bedingfield banger blaring out of a loudspeaker.

30-30 in the opening game.

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Russell Fuller
Tennis correspondent on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds

Raducanu is a massive underdog but a ball has not yet been struck. The lights are on and Emma is hoping to send the last of the top six seeds packing.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport senior tennis reporter at Wimbledon

With her powerful serve and lights-out baseline game, Aryna Sabalenka has become the dominant player on the WTA Tour over the past 18 months.

The blistering nature of her shots translates to any surface and is why she has reached at least the quarter-finals in each of the past 10 Grand Slams she has played.

At Wimbledon, where Sabalenka has reached the semi-finals on her most recent two appearances, the faster courts suit her first-strike tennis.

"She can take the racquet out of your hand and just dominate if you give her that chance," said Raducanu.

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There aren't too many tougher tests in tennis right now than facing Aryna Sabalenka.

The world number one has reached the past three Grand Slam finals - winning last year's US Open before finishing as the runner-up in Australia and France in 2025.

Last year, she was forced to withdraw from Wimbledon because of a shoulder injury.

With many of the other top seeds being knocked out early, no wonder she is one of the favourites for a first Wimbledon title.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport senior tennis reporter at Wimbledon

After being outclassed by Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff on hard and clay courts, Emma Raducanu feels the Wimbledon grass represents her best chance of pushing Aryna Sabalenka.

Since teaming up with coach Mark Petchey earlier this year, Raducanu has also looked to use her serve and forehand more aggressively.

The statistical analysis also shows she is more attacking than average in the women's draw - with 27% of her shots classed that way by TennisViz.

But Raducanu - who lost to Sabalenka in their only previous meeting last year - knows she cannot be "overly aggressive" and needs to use craft too.

Raducanu's return also needs to be on point against one of the best servers in the game, while he sliced backhand will be an important tool to take the pace out of Sabalenka's groundstrokes.

Tracy Austin
Two-time Grand Slam champion on BBC TV

Emma Raducanu has got to get a lot of first serves in.

She needs a high percentage - around 70% - she does not want to be hitting a lot of second serves against Sabalenka.

As a server, Emma is going to feel like she is on the back foot immediately with the way that Sabalenka plays and returns.

Also, don't forget the body serve, try to cramp Sabalenka up.

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More build-up to Emma Raducanu's match shortly - before that, here's Carlos Alcaraz speaking after beating Jan-Lennard Struff in four sets: "I knew at the beginning it was going to be very, very difficult.

"I think his game is suited very well to grass, big serves, approaching to the net as much as he can. I'm really pleased with everything I did today - fighting, running, making great shots. I tried to take opportunities he brought to me in match and just proud to get the win in four sets."

On if it was stressful for him like supporters watching: "Stressful as well for me. I was suffering in every service game I did today.

"It was stressful, every time he could push me, he did it, so I’m really happy at the end I got the break and got the job done."

What was key to that? "He missed a volley one metre from the net so still can’t believe I’m stood here at 6-4.

"I had to run after every ball and fight for every ball. He missed some easy shots and I was lucky in that and I made the most of it. I still don’t know how he missed that volley."

On golfing with Andy Murray: "It was 1-1, we are tied."

Any plans to play again with him during the tournament? "We will see. I love playing on my days off. He has a busy schedule so I will try to set it up, nine holes and we will see who wins. We are tied 1-1 so we will see."

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport senior tennis reporter at Wimbledon

Emma Raducanu has made sound progress to climb back into the world's top 40 this season, but the evidence has shown there is still a clear gulf between the 22-year-old and the leading stars.

Both of her Grand Slam appearances this season were ended in ruthless fashion by five-time major champion Iga Swiatek - Raducanu winning only one game at the Australian Open and three at the French Open in a pair of demoralising defeats.

So how does the British number one bridge that gap?

"I think I need more weapons. I think I need to be able to hit the ball with better quality more often," Raducanu, the 2021 US Open champion, told BBC Sport before facing Sabalenka.

"I think I need to serve better. I think I need to hit better on the move. There are a lot of things I need to do better."

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Emma Raducanu has not dropped a set in her first two matches at Wimbledon this year, getting past fellow Briton Mimi Xu in round one before defeating former champion Marketa Vondrousova in fine style...

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Earlier on we brought you updates from two British pairings underway in the first round of the mixed doubles.

And it has been contrasting fortunes since.

On court 15, it was a good start for Joshua Paris and Eden Silva, with the duo taking the first set 6-4 against the Netherlands pair of Sander Arends and Demi Schuurs.

However, the Dutch duo battled back to take the second and it all came down to a match tie-break in the final set which Paris and Silva took 10-5 to progress to the second round.

It was disappointment for British pair Henry Patten and Olivia Nicholls, though, going down in straight sets to Andres Molteni of Argentina and American Asia Muhammad.

Elsewhere, Neal Skupski and American Desirae Krawczyk are through. They flew through their opening set against Sadio Doumbia and Fang-Hsien Wu, lost the second 6-3 but took the decider by the same scoreline.

British pair Heather Watson and Julian Cash won just three games in the defeat by Italian third seeds Andrea Vavassori and Sara Errani.

It's the world number one against the British number one.

The roof will be closing imminently before Aryna Sabalenka and Emma Raducanu walk onto court for their third-round match.

Tim Henman
Former British number one on BBC Two

Another good performance from Carlos Alcaraz.

After the first set, we thought he might run away with it but Jan-Lennard Struff deserves a lot of credit for how much he dug in. He really stuck to his game plan of being aggressive and taking the ball on. He really made life difficult for the Spaniard. He will rue that forehand volley.

But, in a tournament of so many upsets, Carlos Alcaraz will be happy to be through.

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Since the inaugural ATP Tour season in 1990, Carlos Alcaraz is now one of four players under 23 to win 21+ consecutive matches at ATP level along with Jim Courier, Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin del Potro.

Chris Bradnam
BBC Sport commentator at Wimbledon

He has given everything, Jan-Lennard Struff.

The look on his face in that wonderful slow-motion shot, after he missed that forehand volley, told us a lot.

It was an open court for a professional player. You would maybe miss a shot like that a couple of times a year maybe, but no more than that.