PremiumWimbledon 2024: Women’s singles draw announced; will World No.1 Iga Swiatek win her maiden title?
Defending champion Marketa Vondrousova is in the same half as Swiatek and is projected to meet her in the quarterfinal
Last Updated: 11.55 PM, Jun 28, 2024
The prestigious Championship, Wimbledon, kicks off on July 1, with the draw for the women’s first round announced earlier today. There are 128 players competing in the women’s singles main draw, 104 of which were direct entries, 8 wild cards and 16 qualifiers. The champion will have to navigate 7 rounds to lift the Venus Rosewater Dish at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London.
Wimbledon’s official broadcast partner in India is Star Sports Network, with matches to be aired on Star Sports 2, Star Sports Select 1 and Star Sports Select HD. The streaming partner for the tournament is Disney+ Hotstar. Round 1 matches will be played between July 1 and 2 across the 18 courts of Wimbledon.
ROUND 1 DRAW OF WIMBLEDON 2024
FIRST HALF
| PLAYER 1 | PLAYER 2 |
| I. SWIATEK | S. KENIN |
| F JONES | P. MARTIC |
| Y. PUTINTSEVA | A. KERBER |
| M. STAKUSIC | K. SINIAKOVA |
| C. GARCIA | A. BLINKOVA |
| B. PERA | A. POTAPOVA |
| O. DODIN | D. SNIGUR |
| A. TOMLJANOVIC | J. OSTAPENKO |
| D. COLLINS | C. TAUSONS |
| M. SHERIF | D. GALFI |
| C. OSORIO | L. DAVIS |
| M. FRECH | B. HADDAD MAIA |
| B KREJCIKOVA | V. KUDERMETOVA |
| M. CARLE | K. VOLYNETS |
| C. BUCSA | A. BOGDAN |
| J. BOUZAS MANEIRO | M. VONDROUSOVA |
| E RYBAKINA | E. RUSE |
| L. SIEGEMUND | K. BAINDL |
| C. WOZNIACKI | A. PARKS |
| L. BRONZETTI | L. FERNANDEZ |
| A KALINSKAYA | P. UDVARDY |
| M. BOUZKOVA | J. RIERA |
| A. KALININA | E. AVANESYAN |
| R. MASAROVA | L. SAMSONOVA |
| O. JABEUR | M. UCHIJIMA |
| R MONTGOMERY | O. GADECKY |
| V. GOLUBIC | J. NIEMEIER |
| M. LINETTE | E. SVITOLINA |
| K. BOULTER | T. MARIA |
| H. DART | Z. BAI |
| X WANG | V TOMOTOVA |
| A. KRUEGER | J PEGULA |
ROUND 1 DRAW OF WIMBLEDON 2024
SECOND HALF
| PLAYER 1 | PLAYER 2 |
| Q. ZHENG | L. SUN |
| A. VAN UYTVANCK | Y. STARODUBTSEVA |
| I. BEGU | L. ZHU |
| T. TOWNSEND | A. PAVLYUCHENKOVA |
| E. ALEXANDROVA | E. RADUCANU |
| N. HIBINO | E. MERTENS |
| A. RUS | Y. YUAN |
| M. KESSLER | M. SAKKARI |
| D. KASATKINA | S. ZHANG |
| T. KORPATSCH | Y. MIYAZAKI |
| P. BADOSA | K. MUCHOVA |
| B. FRUHVIRTOVA | M. ANDREEVA |
| D. YASTREMSKA | N. PODOROSKA |
| L. TSURENKO | V. GRACHEVA |
| D. VEKIC | X. WANG |
| E. BEKTAS | A. SABALENKA |
| J. PAOLINI | S. SORRIBES TORMO |
| G. MINNEN | H. WATSON |
| B. ANDREESCU | J. CRISTIAN |
| S. ERRANI | L. NOSKOVA |
| M. KOSTYUK | R. SRAMKOVA |
| D. SAVILLE | P. STEARNS |
| A. SCHMIEDLOVA | Y. WANG |
| M. TREVISAN | M. KEYS |
| V. AZARENKA | S. STEPHENS |
| K. PLISKOVA | D. SHNAIDER |
| N. OSAKA | D. PARRY |
| Q. WANG | E. NAVARRO |
| S. CIRSTEA | S. KARTAL |
| E. LYS | C. BUREL |
| O. DANILOVIC | A. TODONI |
| C. DOLEHIDE | C. GAUFF |
In 2023, Marketa Vondrousova won her first Grand Slam title, defeating Ons Jabeur 6-4 6-4 and becoming the first unseeded player to win in the finale. Other former champions in the draw this year are 2022 winner Elena Rybakina and 2018’s Angelique Kerber. World No.1 Iga Swiatek, who has never gone beyond the quarter-finals stage at the tournament, heads into the event as the top seed.
Swiatek is projected to meet the defending champion in the quarter-final stage, while Coco Gauff is expected to be up against French open runner-up Jasmine Paolini. Swiatek tournament opener is against Sofia Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion, while Vondrousova plays Jessica Bouzas Maneiro.
The Women’s singles final will be held on July 13. Martina Navratilova holds the record for the most titles, having won 9 times, 6 of which were consecutive. Steffi Graf and Serena Williams are tied at 7 wins on the grass court. While all eyes will be on Swiatek and if she can finally win the coveted grass court Grand Slam, two-time runner up Ons Jabeur could be trying to get third time lucky.