Wimbledon 2016: Andy Murray faces Nick Kyrgios, Roger Federer and Serena Williams also play
Wednesday 6 July 2016 07:12, UK
Andy Murray and Nick Kyrgios will take centre stage at Wimbledon on Monday as all 16 fourth round matches are scheduled for play.
Having got the tournament back on track with a full day's play on Sunday, organisers will hope for more of the same as the second week gets underway with a bumper day of action and the forecast is good with no rain expected.
Kyrgios booked his place in the last-16 with a four-set win on People's Sunday and he is relishing the match with Murray, who is now the bookmaker's favourite to claim the title after Novak Djokovic's stunning exit at the hands of Sam Querrey,
Murray has been a supporter of Kyrgios despite the Aussie's occasional outbursts, which seem to have been tempered slightly this year, and Kyrgios revealed that the pair are good friends off the court.
"It's awesome, he backs me up a lot, which is good," said Kyrgios.
"It's just good to have one of the best players in the world, to have a good friend like that. I see him at times more than I see my family."
However, on the court Murray has the measure of the 21-year-old, beating him on all four occasions they have met, including at the Australian, French and US Open's of 2015, but Kyrgios is making inroads.
"I finally won a set against him in a Grand Slam. I feel like I know what to do but it's hard to actually go out there and execute against such a player like him.
"I definitely feel like he's beatable. He's only human. This is probably my best surface, my best chance to beat him. I rarely walk into a tournament and don't think I can win it."
Murray has moved smoothly through the draw without dropping a set against Liam Broady, Yen-hsun Lu and John Millman but he will be well aware of Kyrgios' threat.
The pair will be the third match on Centre Court with Roger Federer getting things underway against another unseeded opponent in the shape of Steve Johnson - the American is likely to prove a tougher test than Marcus Willis and Dan Evans having won the title in Nottingham in the week before Wimbledon.
Serena Williams continues her quest for a 22nd Grand Slam title against former French and US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova. The American is the defending champion and another Wimbledon crown will take her level with Steffi Graf at the top of the open-era list.
And it is the women who will start proceedings on Court No 1, fifth seed Simona Halep meets ninth seed Madison Keys and Venus Williams takes on Carla Suarez-Navarro before the all-French men's fourth round encounter between Richard Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Play on the show courts will again start at 1pm but on the outside courts there is plenty of action getting underway at 11.30am and Court No2 will host Marin Cilic against Kei Nishikori in what is sure to be a crowd-pleasing encounter.
Milos Raonic will look to continue his bid for a maiden Grand Slam title against David Goffin - the winner of that knowing the quarter of their draw has opened up following Djokovic's exit.
All eyes will be on Sam Querrey and whether he can maintain the form that stunned the world number one, he is the second match on Court No 18 when he faces France's grass-court specialist Nicolas Mahut.
Court No 3 is likely to draw the early crowds when third seed and former Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska takes on Eastbourne champion Dominika Cibulkova.
