Wimbledon 2023: Katie Boulter faces Elena Rybakina for fourth-round place

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Venue: All England Club Dates: 3-16 July
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Britain's Katie Boulter volition look the biggest situation of her Wimbledon truthful acold erstwhile she plays defending champion Elena Rybakina connected Saturday.

Boulter plays the Kazakh 3rd effect successful the 3rd lucifer connected Centre Court - the aforesaid signifier wherever she stunned 2021 finalist Karolina Pliskova past year.

Anne Keothavong, Boulter's Billie Jean King Cup captain, believes Rybakina "has looked susceptible astatine times".

"I deliberation this is simply a bully clip for Katie to play against her," she said.

"Rybakina hasn't truly travel into this year's Championships playing tons of tennis.

"She has looked susceptible astatine times and, if you were successful Rybakina's shoes, you're up against a British fig 1 who is fashionable and volition person the bulk of that assemblage supporting her.

"It is simply a concern I don't deliberation Rybakina has recovered herself successful excessively often."

Also connected time six, men's apical effect Carlos Alcaraz opens play connected Centre Court against Chile's Nicolas Jarry astatine 13:30 BST.

Women's 2nd effect Aryna Sabalenka and past year's finalist Ons Jabeur are besides successful action.

The bid of play for Centre Court connected Saturday astatine Wimbledon

Boulter past Briton lasting successful singles

Boulter has enjoyed a good grass-court season, winning her maiden WTA Tour rubric astatine Nottingham successful the build-up to Wimbledon and showing superb absorption to scope the 3rd circular here.

A large hitter, with an assertive crippled built astir her forehand, Boulter is simply a fashionable subordinate with the location fans and is the lone Briton near successful either singles gully pursuing the exits of Andy Murray, Cameron Norrie and Liam Broady connected Friday.

Boulter claimed an affectional triumph implicit erstwhile satellite fig 1 Pliskova connected Centre Court past twelvemonth and is aiming to transmission those memories against Rybakina.

"I deliberation I've got the full full happening successful my memory, to beryllium honorable with you," Boulter said.

"I inactive deliberation astir the clip that I served it out. That's thing that I gully on.

"I'm already excited to play against a apical subordinate and person a go. I deliberation they're the moments I get excited for."

Rybakina has had a shaky commencement to her rubric defence, having to combat backmost from a acceptable down successful her opener and looking unsure astatine times successful her second-round triumph implicit Alize Cornet.

A much subdued fig connected tribunal than Boulter, the Australian Open runner-up is not disquieted astir the home-crowd enactment her hostile volition receive.

"The assemblage won't beryllium supporting maine that much. I'm definite it's going to beryllium good," she added.

"She's a pugnacious subordinate and her crippled is aggressive. It's going to beryllium pugnacious one."

The bid of play for Court One connected Saturday astatine Wimbledon