Day 4 of the women’s singles at Wimbledon produced more excellent tennis. This year’s French Open winner Iga Swiatek and 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina were among the top players in action. It was a day that saw some surprising results, including the exit of a Top-10 player. This article recaps who looked good, which players did not perform well and picks the match that stood out the most.

Wimbledon Day 4 Women’s Recap: Three Upsets On the Day

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 Andy Murray will play mixed doubles with Emma Raducanu at Wimbledon to prolong his farewell at the All England Club.Murray failed in his bid to be fit in time to play in the singles competition, pulling out on Tuesday morning ahead of facing Tomas Machac on Centre Court in round one.But he practised for an hour-and-a-half with brother Jamie at Aorangi Park on Tuesday and they have already committed to playing in the men’s doubles together.Now Murray Jr will pair up with Raducanu in the mixed event to give fans at the All England Club more opportunity to say goodbye to the two-time singles champion.The all-British mixed doubles pairing are set to receive a wildcard from the tournament in order to compete.Murray has said that this year’s Wimbledon will be his last before he officially retires at the Olympics Games in a few weeks’ time.He is entered to play in both the singles and men’s doubles in Paris with Dan Evans, if both players are fully fit. Evans has had his own injury gremlins leading up to these Championships.

Wimbledon 2024: Andy Murray to play mixed doubles with Emma Raducanu in SW19 farewell

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Andy Murray's final Wimbledon appearance tugged on the heartstrings of tennis fans everywhere. After his first-round men's doubles loss alongside his brother Jamie on Thursday, a teary-eyed Murray took the microphone to address fans at Centre Court. The two-time Wimbledon singles champion ...

Andy Murray's Heartbreaking Five-Word Message Brought Fans to Tears

 Finally, the Andy Murray farewell tour begins after two weeks of conjecture over whether he would take to Wimbledon's Centre Court one more time.His recovery from surgery to remove a spinal cyst was not rapid enough for him to take up his place in the singles draw, but sufficient for him to use the option of a wildcard for the doubles with brother Jamie.Watching them in action this week on the practice courts, it is abundantly clear the back is not quite right, the primary impact being he still does not have full sensation in his right leg.The injury...

Andy Murray farewell tour begins as Wimbledon great hopes for special send-off

 Andy Murray is in action at Wimbledon later today, playing a doubles match alongside his brother, Jamie.Murray pulled out of singles competition after failing to recover from surgery to have a spinal cyst removed.The 37-year-old had already confirmed it would have been his last appearance at SW19 but the story is not yet over.He and Jamie Murray will team up for the second time in their careers, having previously done so in a Battle of the Brits in 2022 when the Scots took on English duo Dan Evans and Neal Skupski.The duo will meet Rinky Hijikata and John Peers...

When is Andy Murray playing at Wimbledon? Start time and TV channel for doubles match today

Virginia McCullough pleads guilty to killing her mum and dad, whose bodies were found at her home.

Woman admits murdering her parents

Objects more than a millennia old have gone on display at a Wiltshire museum to celebrate the life of the Anglo-Saxon King Athelstan 1,100 years after he came to the throne. Athelstan Museum in Malmesbury has put on display artefacts loaned from the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum for the Athelstan 1100 exhibition.

Anglo-Saxon exhibition on first King of all England

The 17-year-old boy died in hospital after the incident at West Wittering beach, police say.

Boy, 17, dies during school trip to the beach

The family of a student nurse found dead alongside the body of a paramedic have paid tribute to a "special daughter and sister". Lauren Evans, 22, from Bridgend, and 24-year-old Daniel Duffield, from Cannock, were found dead at home on Alpine Drive in Hednesford, on 25 June. An inquest hearing...

Murdered student nurse was adored, says family

A transgender woman and darts player from Hull who has faced a wave of abuse and exclusion from competitions says she has been questioning her future within the game. Samantha Lewis's passion for darts runs deep, and the sport has spanned generations in her family. "Darts has been in my...

Transgender darts player shaken by abuse and bans

Arlene Mitchell, from West Lothian, defied odds of 700,000 to one by giving birth to Ben, Noah, Harrison and Rory.

Mum overwhelmed after rare birth of quadruplets

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Wild card Lily Miyazaki won only 19 points as she suffered a rapid straight-sets defeat to world number 12 Daria Kasatkina at the start of a colossal day of British tennis at Wimbledon.The Tokyo-born player had already more than doubled her prize money for the year after earning £93,000 by breezing past German Tamara Korpatsch to reach the second round of the Championships for the first time.But Eastbourne champion Kasatkina proved a step too far and cruised to a crushing 6-0 6-0 success in just 50 minutes.A perfect performance 💯No.14 seed @DKasatkina dashes through Miyazaki 6-0, 6-0 to advance to...

Wild card Lily Miyazaki beaten 6-0 6-0 at start of big day for British tennis

A diabetic woman was "crying on her bed" after she stopped taking insulin during a slapping therapy workshop run by an alternative healer, a court has been told. Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, died in October 2016 while taking part in a workshop in Wiltshire which promoted Paida Lajin therapy, which sees patients being slapped or slapping themselves repeatedly.

Woman 'in pain' before death at slapping workshop

BBC News, Mexico, Central America and Cuba Correspondent. Having survived the night as Hurricane Beryl tore across her idyllic home of Union Island with ferocious force, Katrina Coy was taken aback by the extent of the devastation which lay before her. Virtually every building on the island, which lies off...

'Almost whole island homeless' in Hurricane Beryl's wake

LONDON (AP) — Marketa Vondrousova became the first defending women’s champion at Wimbledon to lose in the first round the next year since 1994, eliminated 6-4, 6-2 by Jessica Bouzas Maneiro at Centre Court on Tuesday. Vondrousova was a surprise title winner at the All England Club 12...

Defending Wimbledon champion Vondrousova stunned in 1st round

Police say the overdoses could be linked to a contaminated batch of zopiclone taken for insomnia.

Overdose warning after suspected sleeping pill death

Jack Singleton's family says his death leaves a "massive void that can never be filled".

Family tributes to motorcyclist killed in crash

Former England captain Sir Geoffrey Boycott has been diagnosed with throat cancer for the second time and will have surgery. Boycott, 83, was told last week the cancer had returned, having been treated for the illness in 2002 with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Boycott will have surgery to remove the cancer...

Boycott reveals second cancer diagnosis

When the early footage of Emma Raducanu playing in junior tennis emerged after her stunning 2021 US Open win, the young player on the other side of the net didn’t get too much of a mention. Amid the euphoria of Raducanu’s incredible success in New York, all eyes were...

Who is Sonay Kartal? British hero emerging from Emma Raducanu’s shadow at Wimbledon

A suspected hit-woman being hunted by police investigating an assassination attempt has been tracked down in Armenia. Aimee Betro was taken into custody on Tuesday after she was found in a housing complex on the outskirts of Yerevan, Police of the Republic of Armenia said. She is wanted by West...

Suspected hit-woman arrested in Armenia

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Murrays and all-British battles headline day four

Andy Murray begins his Wimbledon farewell on Thursday as he teams up with brother Jamie in the men's doubles, while there are two all-British battles in...

Murrays and all-British battles headline day four

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