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LONDON -- While Novak Djokovic -- he of the 30-match Grand Slam winning streak -- and Roger Federer can relax and enjoy their places in Wimbledons third round, there are more than two dozen players still stuck in the opening round.That includes eight women who enter Thursday without having played a single point in the grass-court tournament thanks to plenty of rain, among them No. 11 Timea Bacsinszky and No. 31 Kristina Mladenovic.While every man has at least started his first-round match, 12 head into Day 4 needing to complete those contests.The top American man, 18th-seeded John Isner, has finished only one full set against Marcos Baghdatis, taking it in a tiebreaker. They are scheduled to resume Thursday -- weather permitting, of course -- with Baghdatis ahead 3-1 in the second.Mikhail Youzhny and Horacio Zeballos are also in the second set of their first-round match.And the list goes on and on.In all, there are 28 players who are hoping to get out of the first round Thursday.All of the wet weather wreaked so much havoc with the schedule that the first round of mens doubles matches were reduced from best-of-five sets to best-of-three.And the worst news of all? The long-range forecast shows there is a chance of rain every day through next Tuesday.Here is what else to look for at Wimbledon on Thursday:MURRAYS TURN: No. 1 Djokovic and No. 3 Federer got to enjoy the protection of the Centre Court roof Wednesday and completed their matches while there was under two hours of play elsewhere on the grounds. No. 2 Andy Murray gets the same treatment Thursday. Hell be playing his second-round match against 76th-ranked Yen-hsun Lu of Taiwan. Murray has lost only one match at any Grand Slam tournament to a player ranked that low, and it was more than a decade ago, against No. 91 Arnaud Clement at the 2005 U.S. Open.WILLIAMS SISTERS: Serena and Venus Williams are scheduled to play doubles Thursday, part of their reunion tour this season before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. In singles, though, six-time Wimbledon champion Serena gets the day off, while five-time champ Venus, who is seeded No. 8, takes on 115th-ranked Maria Sakkari in a second-round match. Sakkari will be trying to become the first Greek woman to reach the third round at a major since Eleni Daniilidou at Wimbledon in 2005.BOUCHARD VS. KONTA: Two women who closed out rain-interrupted first-round victories Wednesday are back in action when No. 16 Johanna Konta -- the first British woman seeded at the All England Club since Jo Durie in 1984 -- faces 2014 Wimbledon runner-up Eugenie Bouchard.---Follow Howard Fendrich on Twitter at http://twitter.com/HowardFendrich Seattle Mariners Store . "It doesnt get any better than that," Giambi said. "Im speechless." The Indians are roaring toward October. Giambi belted a two-run, pinch-hit homer with two outs in the ninth inning to give Cleveland a shocking 5-4 win over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night, keeping the Indians up with the lead pack in the AL wild-card race. Seattle Mariners Pro Shop . -- Ohio States Urban Meyer has never had any issue acclimating to the biggest stages in college football. https://www.cheapmariners.com/ . The 18th player to shoot 60 on the tour, Jamieson settled for par on the final hole when his 15-foot birdie chip grazed the edge of the hole and stayed out. After opening with rounds of 66 and 73 to make the cut by a stroke, he had 11 birdies in the bogey-free round. Fake Mariners Jerseys . Third-seeded Murray had the easiest path to victory on New Years Eve, barely breaking a sweat during his 6-0, 6-0 win over 2,129th-ranked Qatari wildcard recipient Mousa Shanan Zayed. Stitched Mariners Jerseys . Two pressure cooker bombs exploded near the finish line of the April 15 race in an area packed with fans cheering the passing runners. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured, including at least 16 who lost limbs. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Jaren Sina and Matt Hart each converted a pair of free throws in the final 26 seconds to allow George Washington to escape its Hall of Fame Classic home-court game with Siena, 77-75 on Tuesday night.The Saints held a 58-53 lead with eight minutes left in the game, but Sina knocked down a 3-pointer and a field goal to knot the score at 58-58 in what became a 14-0 run by the Colonials to take control.Sina finished with a team-high 16 points and Yuta Wataanabe contributed 13 points and grabbed a dozen rebounds for GW.dddddddddddd The Colonials (2-0) were 27 of 61 from the field (44.3 percent) and 5 of 19 from distance.Siena was 30 of 67 from the floor (44.8 percent) and 7 of 20 from distance, but the Saints were outrebounded, 46-29, and the Colonials got 10 more points from the free throw line. ' ' '