2024 Wimbledon Championships


The 2024 Wimbledon Championships was a major tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior, wheelchair, and Invitational tournaments were also scheduled.
It was the 137th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and the third Grand Slam event of 2024. The gentlemen's singles title was won by defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, who defeated Novak Djokovic in a rematch of the previous year's final to lift his fourth Grand Slam title. Barbora Krejčíková defeated Jasmine Paolini in the final to win the ladies' singles title.

Tournament

The tournament was played on grass courts, with all main draw matches played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, from 1 July to 14 July 2024. Qualifying matches were scheduled from 24 to 27 June 2024 at the Bank of England Sports Ground in Roehampton.
The 2024 Championships was the 137th edition, the 130th staging of the Ladies' Singles Championship event, the 56th in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation and to be included in the 2024 ATP Tour and the 2024 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category, as well as the 2024 ITF tours for junior and wheelchair competitions respectively.
The tournament consisted of men's, women's, mixed doubles, boys', girls', which was a part of the Grade A category of tournaments for under 18, and singles and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players. This edition also featured gentlemen's and ladies' invitational doubles competitions and the new mixed invitational double draw introduced in 2022.
This was the tournament's third edition with a scheduled order of play on the first Sunday during the event, dubbed "Middle Sunday". Prior to the 2022 edition, the tournament had seen only four exceptions to the tradition of withholding competition on Middle Sunday to accommodate delayed matches during championships that were heavily disrupted by rain.
This was the first time since 1996 that neither of the Williams sisters appear in this tournament.

Singles players

Gentlemen's singles

  • Carlos Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic, 6–2, 6–2, 7–6
The Gentlemen's singles event began on 1 July with the first of seven total rounds. Thirty-two players were seeded. Of those seeded players, eight were defeated in the first round, notably No. 6 Andrey Rublev, No. 17 Félix Auger-Aliassime, and No. 18 Sebastián Báez. Hubert Hurkacz, Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas were the highest of the eight seeded players to exit in the second round, and a further three seeded players were defeated in the third round, with them being No. 22 Alexander Bublik, No. 23 Alejandro Tabilo, and No. 29 Frances Tiafoe. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard became the first lucky loser to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon since Dick Norman in 1995. Alexander Zverev, Grigor Dimitrov, Ben Shelton were the highest of the five seeded players who were defeated in the Round of 16.
In the quarterfinals, Fifth seed Daniil Medvedev defeated Number 1 seed Jannik Sinner in five sets to snap his five match losing streak against Sinner. Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz won his match against No. 12 Tommy Paul in four sets after losing the opening set. Alex de Minaur withdrew from his quarterfinals match due to a hip injury. As a result of this, Novak Djokovic received a walkover into the semifinals. 25th seed Lorenzo Musetti reached his first ever career major semifinals after winning against 13th seed Taylor Fritz. Their match marked the 37th five-set match at the tournament, the most at any edition of a major in the Open Era. The first semifinal was played between fifth seed Medvedev and third seed Alcaraz. Medvedev won the first set in a tie-breaker, but the Spaniard fought back and won the match in four sets and reached his second consecutive Wimbledon final. In the second semifinal, Djokovic defeated Musetti in straight sets to guarantee a rematch of the previous year's final.
In the final match, Alcaraz broke Djokovic's serve twice to take the set, 6–2 in his favour. The Third seed again broke Second seed's serve in the 1st and 7th game of the second set to win this too with the score line of 6–2. Djokovic made some recovery and continued to hold his serve until the 9th game of the third set when the Spaniard broke his serve and had the opportunity to serve for the match. In the 10th game, Alcaraz at one point had three championship points, however Djokovic saved all of them and ending up breaking the third seed's serve for the first time in the match. Both the players held their next service games and forced the set to go to a tie-break. In the end, Carlos Alcaraz won the tie-breaker, 7–4 and won the set, match and the championship. It was his second Wimbledon title and fourth major title overall. He also became the sixth man in the Open Era to complete the Channel Slam.

Ladies' singles

  • Barbora Krejčíková defeated Jasmine Paolini, 6–2, 2–6, 6–4
The Ladies' singles event began on 1 July with the first of seven total rounds. Thirty-two players were seeded. Four seeded players lost in the first round, most notably the No. 6 seed and defending champion Markéta Vondroušová. She lost to Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro. This marked only the second time in the Open Era that the reigning Wimbledon women's singles champion lost in the first round, after Steffi Graf lost to Lori McNeil in 1994. Seven more seeded players fell in the second round, among them No. 5 Jessica Pegula, No. 23 Caroline Garcia and No. 25 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Eight seeded players lost their third round, most notable of them being singles' world No. 1, Iga Świątek. She lost to Yulia Putintseva. This also ended Świątek's 21-match winning streak since the Mutua Madrid Open. Two-times defending finalist tenth seed Ons Jabeur lost her third round match to previous year's semifinalist, No. 21 Elina Svitolina. 12th seed Madison Keys was forced to retire from her fourth-round match after a hamstring injury during the match. The American was at one moment leading 5–2 in the final set and had served for match twice. Three other seeded players lost their pre-quarterfinal matches including the second seeded Coco Gauff. Last remaining British player in either of the main singles draw, wildcard Emma Raducanu also lost her fourth round match. She lost to qualifier Lulu Sun. Sun became the first woman representing New Zealand to reach the fourth round of a major since Belinda Cordwell at the 1989 Australian Open, and the first to reach the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in the Open Era. She is also the first qualifier to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals since Kaia Kanepi in 2010.
Sun and Donna Vekić were the only two unseeded players to reach the quarterfinals. They faced off in the first quarterfinal which was won by Vekić after losing the first set. Vekić is the first Croatian woman to reach the semifinals of the Wimbledon since Mirjana Lučić-Baroni in 1999. Seventh seed Jasmine Paolini defeated 17th seed Emma Navarro in straight sets to become the first Italian woman to reach the semifinals in the Open Era. 2022 champion and fourth seeded, Elena Rybakina won in straight sets against Svitolina, losing just five games in the process. 31st seed Barbora Krejčíková achieved victory against 13th seed Jeļena Ostapenko. In the first semifinal, Vekić met Paolini. Vekić started off strong by breaking Paolini's serve twice and won four consecutive games to win the first set 6–2. Paolini won the second of two break points, having saved three on her own serve, and took the second set 6–4. In the third set, both the Italian and the Croatian broke each other's serve twice before taking it to the super tie-breaker. The 7th seed won the tie-breaker 10–8 to reach second consecutive Grand Slam final. She also become the first woman to reach back-to-back French Open and Wimbledon finals since Serena Williams in 2016 and the first Italian woman in the Open Era to reach the final of two different Grand Slams. In the second semifinal match, Elena Rybakina played against Barbora Krejčíková. In the first set, Rybakina surged ahead with a 4–0 lead. During her opponent's service games, she had break points in all four instances, successfully converting three of them. In the second set, the Czech player broke Kazakh player's serve in the 6th game of the set to win the set, 6–3. Neither woman had a break point in the third set until 3–3, when the 31st seed broke former champion's serve to take the lead in the deciding set. Krejčíková won the set 6–4 to reach her first Grand Slam final since winning the French Open three years ago. Rybakina's loss also guaranteed a first-time Wimbledon champion for the seventh consecutive edition.
In the final match, Barbora Krejčíková got an early lead after she broke Paolini's serve on the first game of the first set. She again broke No. 7's serve in the fifth game to win the first set, 6–2. Paolini bounced back in the second set. She won the first three games of the set. The Italian end up winning the set, 6–2 in her favour. The third set was on level until the Czech player got her first break points of the set and Paolini double-faulted to give away a 4–3 lead. Krejčíková held on to that lead and was serving for the match. Even though the Italian saved two championship points, the 31st seed was finally able to convert the third championship point to win the game, set, match and the tournament. It was Krejčíková's second major singles title.

Gentlemen's doubles

The Gentlemen's doubles event began on 3 July with the first of six total rounds. Sixteen teams were seeded. In the first round, three seeded pairs lost; the highest seeded of them was No. 5 Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori. Former singles ATP world No. 1 player, Andy Murray played alongside his brother Jamie Murray as the wildcards. They lost their first round match against the Australian duo of Rinky Hijikata and John Peers in the straight sets. This was Andy Murray's last match at the Wimbledon. Five seeded teams lost in the second round, including 2 of the top 3 teams, them being No. 2 Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden and No. 3 Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury. In third round, only two seeded teams lost, them being No. 12 Nathaniel Lammons/Jackson Withrow and No.16 Sadio Doumbia/Fabien Reboul.
In the quarterfinals, the top-seeded pair of Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos defeated 8th seeds Kevin Krawietz and Tim Pütz in straight sets. 15th seeds Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson won against No. 11 pair of Máximo González and Andrés Molteni. Unseeded pair of Harri Heliövaara and Henry Patten upset fourth seeds Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavić. 9th seeded pair of Neal Skupski and Michael Venus defeated unseeded pair of Constantin Frantzen and Hendrik Jebens. In the Semifinals, 2022 champion Purcell and Thompson defeated
Granollers and Zeballos. while Heliövaara and Patten ousted the defending champion Skupski and his partner Venus. Heliövaara and Patten defeated Purcell and Thompson in the final. They saved three championship points en route to both players' first major title in men's doubles. Heliövaara became the first Finnish man to lift the doubles trophy at the All England Club. Heliövaara and Patten became the first unseeded team to win the title since Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock in 2014. Patten becomes only the third British man of the Open era – alongside Jonathan Marray in 2012 and Neal Skupski in 2023 – to lift the Wimbledon doubles trophy.