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Wimbledon Preview

After many rainy days of qualifying at Wimbledon, Canadians Frank Dancevic and Aleksandra Wozniak have earned their places in their respective singles draws. Having lost her final qualifying match, Stephanie Dubois will be entered into the main draw as a lucky loser after the withdrawal of Kim Clijsters.

Dancevic is in the bottom quarter of the draw along with Söderling and Djokovic, and will face Brazilian Ricardo Mello in the first round. Mello leads 1-0 head-to-head, winning their only meeting back in 2007. Wozniak and Dubois are both in the same quarter section of the Ladies' singles draw, and haven't been drawn up against any top seeds in the first round. Wozniak could potentially meet (6) Francesca Schiavone in the second round should Aleksandra win her opening match against Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE). Dubois will face American Irina Falconi in her first round match.

More on the Canadian qualifiers here.

Seeded No.31, Milos Raonic's first round opponent will be Fabio Fognini (ITA), a quarter-finalist at the French Open this year.

Raonic and Fognini have yet to meet at the ATP or Grand Slam level. Fognini is primarily a clay court player, so Milos should be able to use his weapons on grass to hit Fognini off the court. Looking ahead in the draw, Raonic would face the winner of Gilles Muller and Tommy Haas if he advances to the second round. More notably is the possible third round match-up with (1) Rafael Nadal, which is a scenario we're all hoping to see play out on the grass. The two have played before, and Nadal had nothing but good things to say about Raonic afterwards.

Rebecca Marino will face Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (AUT) in her first round match at Wimbledon.

Raonic and all the Canadian women will be in action on Monday, and they are all scheduled to play on the outer courts. TSN will have complete coverage of Wimbledon starting at 7AM ET on Monday morning, but since the Canadians aren't playing on any of main show courts I doubt we'll be seeing much of them on TV. Not sure if there will be streaming options for watching specific courts.

Good luck to all five Canadians!

-multi