Welcome to the Wimbledon briefing, where will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament. On day three, the top half of the women’s draw went down to two seeds, the rain did nothing to deter the Wimbledon queue and an American master of the serve survived again.

Aryna Sabalenka is currently focused on her Wimbledon quarterfinal, but she has a huge challenge to come later in the year when she will allegedly face Nick Kyrgios

Top seed Aryna Sabalenka held off a challenge from Elise Mertens, defeating the 24th-seeded Belgian 6-4, 7-6 (4) on Sunday to move into the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. Sabalenka fell behind briefly 3-1 in the second set after a Mertens break,