Wimbledon Schedule And TV Coverage For Monday’s Matches

First-round play commences Monday, the first day of Wimbledon 2011, at the All England Club, with match coverage beginning at 7 a.m. EDT. Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, Andy Roddick, Venus Williams, and Mardy Fish will all be featured in televised Championships action. Today’s TV schedule:

• 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. EDT: First-round play (ESPN2)

2011 Wimbledon matches can also be viewed for free online on ESPN3. Live scores can be found throughout the day on the tournament’s official website.

Scheduled Day 1 matches on Centre Court:
• No. 1 Rafael Nadal vs. Michael Russell
• No. 6 Francesca Schiavone vs. Jelena Dokic
• No. 4 Andy Murray vs. Daniel Gimeno-Traver

Top-seeded matches on the numbered courts include, in the men’s field:
• No. 6 Tomas Berdych vs. Filippo Volandri
• No. 8 Andy Roddick vs. Andreas Beck
• No. 9 Gael Monfils vs. Matthias Bachinger
• No. 19 Mardy Fish vs. Marcel Granollers
• No. 14 Stanislas Wawrinka vs. Potito Starace
• No. 15 Gilles Simon vs. Edouard Roger-Vasselin
• No. 17 Richard Gasquet vs. Santiago Giraldo

And in Day 1 action in the women’s draw:
• No. 2 Vera Zvonareva vs. Alison Riske
• No. 4 Victoria Azarenka vs. Magdalena Rybarikova
• No. 8 Petra Kvitova vs. Alexa Glatch
• No. 11 Andrea Petkovic vs. Stephanie Foretz Gacon
• No. 12 Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Zhang Shuai
• No. 14 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• No. 15 Jelena Jankovic vs. Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez
• No. 17 Kaia Kanepi vs. Sara Errani
• No. 19 Yania Wickmayer vs. Varvara Lepchenko
• No. 23 Venus Williams vs. Akgul Amanmuradova

Other U.S. players in action today will include Ryan Sweeting (vs. Pablo Andujar), Irina Falconi (vs. Stephanie Dubois), Christina McHale (vs. No. 28 Ekaterina Makarova), Vania King (vs. Petra Martic), Donald Young vs. Alex Bogomolov Jr. in an all-American matchup, and Jill Craybas (vs. Alexandra Dulgheru).

Stay tuned to this StoryStream for results from Day 1 of Wimbledon 2011 as matches are completed.