Two-time champion Andy Murray will face fellow Briton Ryan Peniston in an eye-catching Wimbledon first-round match on Monday.
Murray, 36, missed out on a seeding for the grass-court Grand Slam event, leaving him open to facing a higher-ranked player in the first round.
However, the former world number one was drawn against wildcard Peniston, who is ranked 267th in the world. The winner faces a tough test in the second round against Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas or Dominic Thiem. The 136th Championships start at the All England Club on Monday.
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, bidding for a record-equalling 24th major and eighth Wimbledon men’s title, starts against Argentina’s Pedro Cachin. Djokovic is seeded second after being replaced as world number one by Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz.
Alcaraz, 20, returned to the top of the rankings by winning the Queen’s title last week and plays French veteran Jeremy Chardy in his Wimbledon opener.
Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina starts her defence of the women’s singles title against American Shelby Rogers. Rybakina, 23, is seeded third and goes into the same half of the draw as Belarusian second seed Aryna Sabalenka, meaning they could face in the semi-finals.
Rybakina and Sabalenka, who first plays Hungary’s Panna Udvardy, have been put into the bottom half of the draw.
This half is stacked with players who have excellent pedigree on grass courts, including last year’s finalist Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, Czech two-time champion Petra Kvitova, Czech 2021 runner-up Karolina Pliskova and Brazilian 13th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia.
Top seed Iga Swiatek has never gone past the fourth round at Wimbledon but has a more favourable-looking path as she aims for a fifth major title.
The 22-year-old from Poland opens against China’s Lin Zhu, while American seventh seed Coco Gauff - a prospective quarter-final opponent for Swiatek - faces 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin, who came through qualifying after falling down the rankings.
Another standout match in the first round pits American five-time champion Venus Williams, 43, against Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, who was a semi-finalist in 2019.
