Women’s Preview, By the Numbers – Tennis Now

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Seeds blooming 

Two gamers are seeded for the primary time at a serious within the ladies’s aspect – No.20 seed Maja Chwalinksa and No.29 seed Alexandra Eala. 

Slamming Discipline 

There are 13 former Grand Slam champions within the ladies’s singles draw. 

Serena’s Again 

44-year-old Serena Williams will turn out to be the fourth-oldest participant to seem in a Girls’s Singles Grand Slam major draw within the Open Period and the second-oldest in Wimbledon (youthful solely than Martina Navratilova in 2004. 

In 2017, Serena grew to become the oldest lady to win a serious singles title when she gained the Australian Open on the age of 35. Ten years, in 2016, in the past she grew to become the oldest lady to ever win a Wimbledon ladies’s singles title on the age of 34.

Williams owns a 98-14 lifetime document at Wimbledon and will likely be making her twenty second profession look on the Championships. 

Teen Spirit 

There are 9 youngsters on this yr’s Wimbledon ladies’s singles draw. The final teenager to win the title at Wimbledon was Maria Sharapova in 2004. 

The final teenager to win a serious was Mirra Andreeva, earlier this month at Roland Garros. 

Debutantes All over the place 

27 gamers will likely be making their Wimbledon major draw debut this yr. 

2026 Wimbledon Predominant Draw Debutantes

• Nikola Bartunkova
• Sara Bejlek
• Lois Boisson
• Mariam Bolkvadze
• Kayla Day
• Anastasia Gasanova
• Leolia Jeanjean
• Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva
• Alina Korneeva
• Sinja Kraus
• Petra Marcinko
• Oleksandra Oliynykova
• Antonia Ruzic
• Mananchaya Sawangkaew
• Oksana Selekhmeteva
• Iryna Shymanovich
• Lilli Tagger
• Lanlana Tararudee
• Janice Tjen
• Maria Timofeeva
• Tereza Valentova
• Hanne Vandewinkel

2026 Grand Slam Predominant Draw Debutantes

• Alicia Dudeney
• Lina Gjorcheska
• Tyra Caterina Grant
• Teodora Kostovic
• Darja Vidmanova

Shock to the Defender?

Defending ladies’s singles champions have twice been eradicated within the first spherical of their title protection – in 1994 Steffi Graf misplaced to Lori McNeil and in 2024 Marketa Vondrousova misplaced to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro.

2025 champion Iga Swiatek will face Taylor Townsend in spherical one.

Sabalenka Working the Desk?

Aryna Sabalenka can have accomplished 90 consecutive weeks on the prime of the WTA’s rankings after Wimbledon. That’s the seventh-longest streak of all-time, and if she finishes Wimbledon at No.1 she’ll tie Monica Seles (91) for the sixth-longest streak of consecutive weeks at No.1.

LONGEST STREAKS OF CONSECUTIVE WEEKS AT NO.1 WTA HISTORY

However will she stay there? Elena Rybakina has a shot to seize the tour’s prime rating for the primary time this yr at Wimbledon. 

Listed here are the eventualities: 

The WTA World No1. rating will likely be on the road at Wimbledon as Elena Rybakina has an opportunity to overhaul Sabalenka.  

• Rybakina might want to attain the QF to have an opportunity at transferring to No.1 
• If Sabalenka reaches the R16 or QF then Rybakina will want a minimum of SF 
• If Sabalenka reaches SF, Rybakina would wish to achieve the ultimate 
• If Sabalenka vs. Rybakina meet in last then winner will take be No.1 

367 and counting

Serena Williams, who faces Maya Joint within the first spherical, leads all ladies with 367 Grand Slam singles match wins.

No Time like First Time

Since Serena Williams gained her seventh singles title in 2016, all ladies’s singles champions at SW19 have been first-time Wimbledon champions.

Stats: courtesty of WTA and Performs