The number one seed, Novak Djokovic from Serbia, faces off against the unseeded Juan Carlos Ferrero from Spain on the first day of play of The Championships Wimbledon, at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, England. This match happens in Centre Court at 1:00PM, at what will be the third Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year. They will be playing the first round of the Gentlemen's Singles. There is also a mach for first round play between Maria Sharapova and Anastasia Rodionova on that same court.

Novak Djokovic has entered the Wimbledon event no less than seven times, and his best showing was just last year wen he won the Men's singles title. He has also entered in the doubles in the past, but the furthest that he has made it was the second round and that was back in 2006. Juan Carlos Ferrero has entered at Wimbledon more times than Djokovic, a total of ten for him, and the furthest he has ever gotten was when he was a quarterfinalist in 2007 and 2009. As for his doubles showing, he has never made it past the first round.