Former champion Lindsay Davenport has had to withdraw from this year’s Championships due to a knee injury, shortly before her scheduled second round match with Argentina’s Gisela Dulko.

Day four at Wimbledon will feature a great deal of British interest as well as former champions Venus Williams, Lindsay Davenport and Maria Sharapova. Follow all the action from all the courts here on the Championships blog.

After the second round shocks, who would predict day five’s matches. Roger Federer, first up on Centre Court against France’s Marc Gicquel, may seem an unassailable favourite but the third match on that court features the last man to beat Federer here, unseeded Croat Mario Ancic.

Sixteeen-year-old Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is the youngest player to qualify for this year’s Championships and won her first two matches without dropping a set. The blonde Russian now faces number 14 seed Agnieszka Radwanska.

Rafael Nadal said he was very happy with his four-set victory over Ernests Gulbis, who he had described as a “very tough opponent”. But he still vowed to improve on today’s performance, particularly his ability to pick up drop shots.

Marat Safin was nowhere to be seen on Court 2 as younger sister Dinara Safina made short of work of the 116th-ranked Su-Wei Hsieh 6-3, 6-2 in just over an hour and advance to the third round.

Andy Murray talked up his football skills as well as his serving prowess after his demolition of Belgian Xavier Malisse. The British number one fired down 16 aces during his second round victory

After dumping former Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova out of the tournament, Alla Kudryavtseva really twisted the knife by declaring she didn’t like her fellow Russian’s famous on-court outfit.

Maria Sharapova was honest in her assessment of how she lost to unheralded compatriot Alla Kudryavtseva to end her Wimbledon 2008 at the second round stage. “She just did everything better than I did,” she said.

New Zealand’s Marina Erakovic gave a dazzling display of grass court tennis to defeat Julia Goerges of Germany 6-2, 7-6 (7-5) in a battle of contrasting styles. The 20-year-old will next play the in-form Thai, Tamarine Tanasugarn.

Venus Williams talks to the press after her second round victory over Anne Keothavong in which she discusses getting hit in the face by a Keothavong return, the standard of British women and why she is not worried about her early form.