The 2023 Wimbledon Championships are formally right here and never even dangerous climate can cease the motion. This yr, Novak Djokovic will attempt to defend his males’s singles title, and Elena Rybakina will do the identical within the ladies’s singles.
Carlos Alcaraz heads into Wimbledon as No. 1 within the males’s draw and he is trying to win his first Grand Slam title of 2023 after reaching the semifinals on the French Open. The No. 2 seed, Djokovic, is trying to get three-out-of-three at Grand Slam occasions this yr after successful the Australian Open and the French Open.
Along with his second-round win towards Jordan Thompson on Wednesday, Djokovic grew to become one in every of solely three gamers in tennis historical past to have greater than 350 wins in Grand Slam singles matches – together with Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal.
Djokovic’s French Open win pushed him previous Nadal, who will miss Wimbledon as he continues to wrestle with a hip damage, for essentially the most Grand Slam singles titles with 23.
Rain disrupted this yr’s competitors by delaying some video games, together with the one between No. 5 Stefanos Tsitsipas and Dominic Thiem. After being suspended halfway via the second set, the match resumed on Wednesday afternoon and was a five-set battle. Tsitsipas survived and superior by successful 3-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (10-8).
The All England Membership elevated safety after protesters disrupted different occasions in England. two local weather protesters managed to interrupt the primary spherical match between Sho Shimabukuro and Grigor Dimitrov. Two folks had been arrested after throwing orange coloured confetti and puzzle items on Court docket 18.
A notable absentee from this yr’s match is Nick Kyrgios, who performed towards Djokovic in final yr’s Wimbledon remaining. He introduced on July 2 that he was withdrawing from this yr’s match because of a torn ligament in his wrist.
“I’ve tried every part to have the ability to play and I am disenchanted to say I simply did not have sufficient time to do it earlier than Wimbledon,” Kyrgios wrote on an Instagram story.
Iga Swiatek, the No. 1 seed on the ladies’s facet, involves Wimbledon recent off her French Open victory. Swiatek has by no means made it previous the fourth spherical at Wimbledon, however she’s going to look to vary that in the middle of this yr’s match. The 2023 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina is the quantity 3 seed. Rybakina was knocked out within the third spherical of the French Open.
No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka scored the primary Grand Slam singles title of her profession on the 2023 Australian Open, and she’s going to look to double her complete in London.
The primary main shock of this yr’s match got here instantly when Sofia Kenin, the 2020 WTA Participant of the 12 months, beat World No. 7 Coco Gauff 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 throughout the first spherical of Monday.
This is every part that you must know in regards to the 2023 Wimbledon Championships.
The best way to watch the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Date: July 3-16
Place: London, England
TV: ESPN, Tennis Channel | Reside stream: fubo TV (try for free)
Gents’s notable first-round matchups
- No. 1 Defeats Carlos Alcaraz. Jeremy Chardy 6-0, 6-2, 7-5
- No. 2 Defeats Novak Djokovic. Pedro Cachin 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4)
- No. 3 Defeats Daniil Medvedev. Arthur Ferry 7-5, 6-4, 6-3
- No. 4 Casper Ruud beats. Laurent Lokoli 6-1, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
- No. 5 Defeats Stefanos Tsitsipas. Dominic Thiem 3-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (10-8)
- No. 6 Holger Rune def. George Loffhagen 7-6 (7-4),6-3, 6-2
- No. 7 Andrey Rublev beats. Max Purcell 6-3, 7-5, 6-4
- No. 8 Jannik Sinner defeats. Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-2, 6-2, 6-2
- No. 9 Defeating Taylor Fritz. Yannick Hanfmann 6-4, 2-6, 4-6, 7-5 6-3
- No. 10 Defeats Frances Tiafoe. Yibing Wu 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, 6-4
Girls’s Notable First Spherical Matchups
- No. 1 Defeats Iga Swiatek. Lin Zhu 6-1, 6-3
- No. 2 Defeats Aryna Sabalenka. Panna Udvardy 6-3, 6-1
- No. 3 Elena Rybakina beats. Shelby Rogers 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
- No. 4 Jessica Pegula Defeats. Lauren Davis 6-2, 6-7 (8-10), 6-3
- No. 5 Carolina Garcia beats. Katie Volynets 6-4, 6-3
- No. 6 Defeat Us Jabeur. Magdalena Frech 6-3, 6-3
- Sofia Kenin defeats. No. 7 Coco Gauff 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
- No. 8 Defeats Maria Sakkari. Marta Kostyuk 0-6, 7-5, 6-2
- No. 9 Petra Kvitova defeats. Jasmine Paolini 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1
- No. 19 Beats Victoria Azarenka. Yue Yuan 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
Males seeds
1. Carlos Alacaraz
2. Novak Djokovic
3. Daniel Medvedev
4.Casper Ruud
5. Stephanos Tsitsipas
6. Holger rune
7. Andrey Roelev
8. Jannik Sinner
9.Taylor Fritz
10. Frances Tiafoe
11. Felix Auger-Aliassime
12.Cameron Norrie
13. Borna Coric
14.Lorenzo Musetti
15. Alex de Minaur
16.Tommy Paul
17. Hubert Hurkacz
18. Francisco Cerundolo
19.Alexander Zverev
20. Roberto Bautista Agut
21. Grigor Dimitrov
22.Sebastian Korda
23. Alexander Bublik
24. Yoshi Nishioka
25.Nicolas Jarry
26. Denis Shapovalov
27. Daniel Evans
28. Tallon Greek Observe
29.Thomas Martin Etcheverry
30.Nick Kyrgios
31. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
32.Ben Shelton
Seeds for ladies
1. Iga Świątek
2. Aryna Sabalenka
3.Elena Rybakina
4.Jessica Pegula
5. Caroline Garcia
6. Our Jabour
7. Coco Gauff
8. Maria Sakkari
9. Petra Kvitova
10. Barbara Krejciková
11. Daria Kasatkina
12. Veronica Kudermetova
13. Beatriz Haddad Maia
14. Belinda Bencic
15. Lyudmila Samsonova
16. Karolina Muchova
17. Jelena Ostapenko
18. Karolina Plísková
19. Victoria Azarenka
20. Donna Vekic
21. Yekaterina Alexandrova
22. Anastasia Potapova
23. Magda Linette
24.Zheng Qinwen
25.Madison Keys
26.Anhelina Kalinina
27. Bernarda Pera
28.Elise Mertens
29. Irina-Camelia Begu
30. Petra Martic
31. Mayar Sherif
32. Marie Bouzkova
