London [UK], July 3 (ANI): The prestigious Wimbledon Championships will likely be ranging from Monday, with Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic having his eyes on a number of information.
The third grand slam occasion of the yr will likely be held on the prestigious All England Club in London, UK, as per Olympics.com. It is simply performed on grass courts.
If Djokovic wins the title, he’ll equal Swiss legend Roger Federer’s file of eight singles titles in London. He is at the moment tied with American nice Pete Sampras as second-most profitable males’s singles participant in London through the Open period.
The Serbian can be aiming for his fifth successive males’s singles Wimbledon title win, one thing that has solely been completed by Federer and Sweden’s Bjorn Borg.
Djokovic will likely be eyeing his third grand slam title of 2023, after successful Australian Open and French Open titles to overhaul males’s file of twenty-two main titles held by Rafael Nadal from Spain. The Serbian at the moment has 23 main titles.
With Nadal not enjoying attributable to damage, the world primary and high seed Carlos Alcaraz from Spain is an impediment that Djokovic should overcome. The duo met earlier this yr on the semifinals of the French Open and Djokovic gained the match. Before that, teen Alcaraz had beat Djokovic at ATP Masters 1000 Madrid semi-final in Spain final yr.
Djokovic is second seed and will likely be enjoying world quantity 67 Pedro Cachin from Argentina in spherical one. Former US Open champion Daniil Medvedev is seeded third.
An thrilling matchup within the match will see 2023 Australian Open finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas, the fifth seed tackle 2020 US Open Champion Dominic Thiem of Austria. The winner may lock horns towards two-time Wimbledon champion and an unseeded Andy Murray.
The present ATP and WTA rankings of males’s and ladies’s singles gamers decided the seedings.
Coming to ladies’s singles competitors, the defending champion Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan is the third seed and Poland’s Iga Swiatek, who can also be the world primary participant, is the highest seed, with Aryna Sabalenka seeded second. The earlier version’s finalist Ons Jabeur from Tunisia is sixth-seed.
Five-time Wimbledon singles champion Venus Williams will even be enjoying within the match. The 43-year-old veteran will lock horns with Tokyo 2020 bronze medalist Elina Svitolina within the opening spherical. They each are wild card entries within the match.
The solely tennis participant from India to compete within the Wimbledon 2023 singles match was Ankita Raina. However, world No. 197 Ankita Raina fell to world No. 167 Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain within the first spherical of the {qualifications} with scores of 3-6, 6(5)-7(7), and 1-6.
In the boys’s doubles competitors, Rohan Bopanna will pair up along with his Australian accomplice Matthew Ebden. The Australian-Indian crew has been in glorious kind this yr; they gained the Qatar Open and the Indian Wells ATP Masters 1000 championships. In the opening spherical of the boys’s doubles competitors, they may take towards the sixth-seeded Argentine crew of Guillermo Duran and Tomas Martin Etcheverry.
Sania Mirza, a tennis prodigy from India who introduced her retirement from aggressive play earlier this yr, is anticipated to compete within the Ladies Legends Invitation Doubles match at Wimbledon in 2023. For the invitational occasion for retired athletes, she is going to compete alongside Johanna Konta of Great Britain.
Sania’s former doubles accomplice, Swiss star Martina Hingis, will compete within the Legends Invitation Doubles competitors as nicely.
Wimbledon 2023 tennis schedule-July 3, MondayFirst spherical – males’s and ladies’s singles-July 4, TuesdayFirst spherical – males’s and ladies’s singles-July 5, WednesdaySecond spherical – males’s and ladies’s singlesFirst spherical – males’s and ladies’s doubles-July 6, ThursdaySecond spherical – males’s and ladies’s singlesFirst spherical – males’s and ladies’s doubles-July 7, FridayThird spherical – males’s and ladies’s singlesSecond spherical – males’s and ladies’s doublesFirst spherical – blended doubles-July 8, SaturdayThird spherical – males’s and ladies’s singlesSecond spherical – males’s and ladies’s doublesFirst spherical – blended doubles-July 9, SundayFourth spherical – males’s and ladies’s singlesThird spherical – males’s and ladies’s doublesSecond spherical – blended doubles-July 10, MondayFourth spherical – males’s and ladies’s singlesThird spherical – males’s and ladies’s doublesQuarter-finals – blended doubles-July 11, TuesdayQuarter-finals – males’s and ladies’s singlesQuarter-finals – males’s and ladies’s doublesSemi-finals – Mixed doubles-July 12, WednesdayQuarter-finals – males’s and ladies’s singlesQuarter-finals – males’s and ladies’s doubles-July 13, ThursdaySemi-finals – ladies’s singlesSemi-finals – males’s doublesFinal – Mixed doubles-July 14, FridaySemi-finals – males’s singlesSemi-finals – ladies’s doubles-July 15, SaturdayFinal – ladies’s singlesFinal – males’s doubles-July 16, SundayFinal – males’s singlesFinal – ladies’s doubles. (ANI)