🎾 SM Tournament Preview: Wimbledon 🌱

A weekly report of everything you need to know on the ATP Tour

We arrive at the main event of the grass court season: The Championships, Wimbledon. The wide, world of tennis will converge on The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club located in the southwest London Borough of Merton. Past champions, rising superstars, hometown hopefuls, and international flavor will all be on display on the grass this week on the perennial ryegrass.

For our coverage today, we will preview each quarter of the draw, players to know, and exciting first round matches. We will be back next weekend to breakdown what happened in the first week and see how the rest of the tournament will play out.

Thanks for reading and enjoy all the action this week!

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The Championships, Wimbledon

• First Quarter

  • Jannik Sinner returns to Wimbledon hoping to better this best finish of a semi-final loss to Novak Djokovic in 2023 and will face fellow countryman Luca Nardi in round one … Sinner has nine titles since the beginning of last year … Another Italian and 7th seed Lorenzo Musetti made the semi-finals last year before losing to Novak Djokovic … 10th seed Ben Shelton hasn’t won since making the top 10 two weeks ago and he made the round of 16 last year … 13th seeded Tommy Paul is a former quarter-finalist here and faces British WC Johannus Monday in the first round … 18th seed Ugo Humbert has made two grass semi-finals this year (Libema Open and Eastbourne) … Grigor Dimitrov is playing in his 15th Wimbledon and his best run was in 2014 when he made the SF … Denis Shapovalov is back in London where he made the SF in 2021 … Frenchman Corentin Moutet lost in the Mallorca Open final on Saturday … Gael Monfils is in the draw for the 14th time in his age 38 season … American and 29th seed Brandon Nakashima could see fellow countryman Reilly Opelka in the second round … British George Loffhagen also received a wild-card this week and is ranked #302

  • 🔥 R1 Match to Watch 👀

    • Ugo Humbert vs Gael Monfils

      • This all Frenchman battle should provide plenty of entertainment and drama.

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• Second Quarter

  • #4 seed Jack Draper looks to become the second Brit in the Open Era to win at Wimbledon (Andy Murray) and arrives at his career-best ranking of #4 … Sitting in the same quarter is seven-time champion Novak Djokovic who is the 6th seed … 11th seed Alex De Minaur is 9th in the Race to Turin live rankings and has only played one match this year on grass and lost … 15th seed Jakub Mensik is up to his career-best ranking of #17 and he won the Miami Masters this year … 21st seed Tomas Machac had his best run on grass in Halle this season in making the QF … Flavio Cobolli is the 22nd seed in his second appearance at Wimbledon … 28th seed Alexander Bublik won the Halle Open title after beating Daniil Medvedev and Jannik Sinner … 31st seed Alex Michelsen has made two grass-court finals in his career … Marin Cilic made the finals here in 2017 and is back for the first time since 2021 … British WC Jack Pinnington Jones is facing Tomas Martin Etcheverry in R1 … Christopher Eubanks made the QFs in 2023 and achieved his career-high ranking of 29 … Dan Evans and Jay Clarke both received WCs and will battle it out in an all-British affair where neither have made it to the second week

  • 🔥 R1 Match to Watch 👀

    • Alexander Bublik vs. Jaume Munar

      • Bublik has been in great form this month and Munar took Carlos Alcaraz to a third-set at Queen’s Club.

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