LONDON — A couple of characters will get together on Court 12 today when 12th-seeded Ernests Gulbis takes on 90th-ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky.
Who knows what might happen? Gulbis is known for smashing rackets and voicing his opinions — and he beat Roger Federer en route to the French Open semifinals this month.
Stakhovsky, meanwhile, surprised everyone by defeating Federer in the second round at Wimbledon in 2013.
He’s also the guy who yanked out a cell phone to take a picture of a ball mark at Roland Garros a year ago while pleading his case with a chair umpire.
Another intriguing match today features top-seeded Novak Djokovic of Serbia and 38th-ranked Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic.
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Djokovic is 10-1 head-to-head against Stepanek, whose net-charging style would appear to be built for grass. But Stepanek only once has made it as far as the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 11 previous appearances.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France and Sam Querrey of the U.S. will be playing for a third consecutive day when they meet today, although it’s not as if either expended too much energy Tuesday.
Both needed only one game to complete rain-interrupted matches held over from a night earlier. The 14th-seeded Tsonga was a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 2011, and the runner-up at the Australian Open in 2008. Querrey has never been past the fourth round at a major.
