This year the lawns of Wimbledon will be generating their usual tingles of expectation across the sporting world and wider world.
2018 is the second year when the Wimbledon Diary has been slightly different, this is the second year there have been three weeks between the end of the French Open and the start of Wimbledon.
With the Wimbledon set to kick off on Sunday at the All England Club, SI’s tennis experts and writers Jon Wertheim, Stanley Kay, Jamie Lisanti and Daniel Rapaport discuss this year’s top storylines and predict the winners.
By Sonia Oxley
BBC Sport
Imagine the “thwack” of the racquet hitting the ball, the line judge calling “out”, the umpire declaring “deuce” and the crowd clapping and cheering.
And now imagine being a professional tennis player and not hearing any of it.
That is the reality for South Korean player Lee Duck-hee, who is deaf and is hoping to qualify for the main draw at next week’s Wimbledon.
“I’m very proud of myself as being the only deaf professional tennis player in the world at the moment,” the 20-year-old told BBC Sport.
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Novak Djokovic has claimed a late wild card for next week’s Fever-Tree Championships at Queen’s, further strengthening a field that was already shaping up as the strongest in the tournament’s history.
With the Roland Garros 2018 set to kick off on Sunday in Paris, SI’s tennis experts and writers Jon Wertheim, Stanley Kay, Jamie Lisanti and Daniel Rapaport discuss this year’s top storylines and predict the winners.