Andy Murray will be aiming for a place in the second week of Wimbledon when he takes the court against Andreas Seppi on Friday. Roger Federer is also in third-round action, facing Sam Groth.

(25) Andreas Seppi vs. (3) Andy Murray

Murray and Seppi will be squaring off for the eighth time in their careers when they collide in the Wimbledon third round on Friday. The head-to-head series stands at 6-1 in favor of Murray, but they have split a pair of grass-court encounters. Each of those two aforementioned meetings came more than six years ago; Seppi prevailed 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-1 at the 2006 Nottingham event before Murray got the job done 6-1, 6-4 at Queen’s Club in 2009. The two veterans most recently faced each other last season in a Davis Cup rubber on the clay courts of Italy, where the Scot cruised 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 to extend his…