Murray and Raducanu scheduled for mixed doubles on Saturday

Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu will play fourth on Court One at Wimbledon on Saturday.

The match could be the two-time champion at the All England Club’s final one at the tournament as he nears retirement.

Murray lost in the men’s doubles alongside brother Jamie on Thursday before an emotional farewell on Centre Court.

The British duo will face Marcelo Arevalo and Zhang Shuai and follow Ben Shelton and Denis Shapovalov’s resumed singles match which is opening up play.

Iga Swiatek and Yulia Putintseva and Elena Rybakina and Caroline Wozniacki will then be in women’s singles action.

The timing also ensures football fans in England will likely to be able to watch the men’s national team against Switzerland in the European Championship quarter-finals before switching attention to tennis.

They kick off at 5pm BST with Raducanu and Murray unlikely to be on court before 7pm.

Raducanu beat ninth seed Maria Sakkari 6-2 6-3 on Friday to reach the fourth round.

She next faces qualifier Lulu Sun of New Zealand on Sunday, and will be hoping that her match with Murray does not go too deep into the night. Wimbledon, unlike other Grand Slam tournaments, has an 11pm curfew.

“My doubles record isn’t exactly the longest, or the most vast, but I couldn’t say no. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Raducanu said earlier this week of the chance to play with Murray.

“It’s a dream of mine since I was a young girl, since watching the Olympics. Andy’s a hero to all of us. So for me, it’s a real gift and it’s a real honour that he asked me and it’s a moment that I could never say no to.

“And I’m just super excited to be on the mixed doubles court and hopefully learn a thing or two about coming to the net or something.”

Murray is an Olympic silver medalist in mixed doubles — with Laura Robson in 2012 — and five years ago played the Wimbledon event with Serena Williams.

“I chatted a bit with my team about it and they said what exactly are you trying to get out of it,” Murray said of the decision to pair up with Raducanu.

“Firstly we want to be competitive in the matches and then playing with another Brit was going to be something that would be nice and she’s obviously one of the top top British players and she would have been top of the list, yeah.”

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