Andy Murray will experience the unfamiliar feeling of sharing the limelight with a fellow Briton when he attempts to reach the semi-finals of the Aegon Championships on Friday.
The second seed and world number four takes on big-serving Croatian Marin Cilic in the second match on Centre Court at Queen's Club, from around 1400 BST.Meanwhile, British number two James Ward will play the final set of his match against defending champion Sam Querrey from 1300 BST on Court One, after their match was halted on Thursday evening because of bad light.
Ward had battled back to level at 3-6 6-3 as his American opponent struggled with an elbow injury and the Londoner will hope to finish the job, with the winner to face Frenchman Adrian Mannarino in the fourth match on Centre.
"The decision to suspend play was a big call," said BBC commentator John Lloyd. "That's a big break for Querrey. He was not happy, his arm was sore and he was rolling his serve in.
"He's now got time to get his arm going again and get the physio onto it. The momentum was with James Ward."
Murray will look to improve on a 5-1 career record against eighth seed Cilic, with the Scot's ankle injury apparently no longer a major issue.
"I've had two good wins and yet I feel like I've spent most of the time talking about my ankle injury," said Murray in his column for the BBC Sport website, after beating Janko Tipsarevic on Thursday.
"Well, the good news is it's feeling much better and I can really concentrate on the tennis from now on. I thought I moved pretty good. I didn't feel it at all, which is the best it's felt, which is good news.
"With Wimbledon just around the corner it was tough, because I want to be in the best shape possible for the start of the biggest tournament of the year, but I'm glad I decided to play.
"Any uncertainty I had about this week is behind me now and I'm concentrating on building on a couple of solid performances. I was hitting the ball more cleanly against Janko Tipsarevic and going for my second serve a lot more, something I'll need to keep doing if I want to win the title."
Play on Centre Court will begin at 1230, with four-time champion Andy Roddick against Spain's Fernando Verdasco, with world number one Rafael Nadal taking on Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga in the third match.
Nadal faces a busy day as he and fellow Spaniard Marc Lopez have a doubles match against Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau to finish, after they too were halted by poor light on Thursday evening.
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