The 2023 Wimbledon Championships was a major tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom.
Tournament
editThe tournament was played on grass courts, with all main draw matches played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, from 3 to 16 July 2023. Qualifying matches were played from 26 to 29 June 2023 at the Bank of England Sports Ground in Roehampton.
The 2023 Championships was the 136th edition, the 129th staging of the Ladies’ Singles Championship event, the 55th in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and included in the 2023 ATP Tour and the 2023 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category, as well as the 2023 ITF tours for junior and wheelchair competitions respectively.
The tournament consisted of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles), mixed doubles, boys' (under 18 – singles and doubles, under 14 – singles), girls' (under 18 – singles and doubles, under 14 – singles), which are a part of the Grade A category of tournaments for under 18, and singles & doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players. This edition features gentlemen's and ladies' invitational doubles competitions and the mixed invitational double draw introduced in the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. The men's doubles competition was changed from best of five sets to best of three sets for all matches.[1]
This was the tournament's second 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.[2]
The tournament saw the return of Russian and Belarusian tennis players, after they were controversially banned from the previous edition due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3]
Special events
editIn addition to the tournament taking place, Swiss former tennis player Roger Federer was honoured two decades since he won the tournament for the first time in 2003.[4]
Dress code
editIn 2023 Wimbledon rules first allowed all female players, included but not limited to in the girls’ singles junior event, to wear non-white underwear; the new rule allows "solid, mid/dark-coloured undershorts, provided they are no longer than their shorts or skirt".[5]
Singles players
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Events
editGentlemen's singles
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Carlos Alcaraz def. 
Novak Djokovic, 1–6, 7–6(8–6), 6–1, 3–6, 6–4
Ladies' singles
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Markéta Vondroušová def. 
Ons Jabeur, 6–4, 6–4
Gentlemen's doubles
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Wesley Koolhof / 
Neal Skupski def. Marcel Granollers / 
Horacio Zeballos, 6–4, 6–4
Ladies' doubles
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Hsieh Su-wei / Barbora Strýcová def. 
Storm Hunter / 
Elise Mertens, 7–5, 6–4
Mixed doubles
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Mate Pavić / 
Lyudmyla Kichenok def. Joran Vliegen / 
Xu Yifan, 6–4, 6–7(9–11), 6–3
Wheelchair gentlemen's singles
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Tokito Oda def. Alfie Hewett, 6–4, 6–2
Wheelchair ladies' singles
edit- Diede de Groot def. Jiske Griffioen, 6–2, 6–1
Wheelchair quad singles
edit- Niels Vink def. Heath Davidson, 6–1, 6–2
Wheelchair gentlemen's doubles
edit- Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid def. Takuya Miki / Tokito Oda, 3–6, 6–0, 6–3
Wheelchair ladies' doubles
edit- Diede de Groot / Jiske Griffioen def. Yui Kamiji /
Kgothatso Montjane, 6–1, 6–4
Wheelchair quad doubles
edit- Sam Schröder / Niels Vink def. Heath Davidson /
Robert Shaw, 7–6(7–5), 6–0
Boys' singles
edit- Henry Searle def.
Yaroslav Demin, 6–4, 6–4
Girls' singles
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Clervie Ngounoue def. Nikola Bartůňková, 6–2, 6–2
Boys' doubles
edit- Jakub Filip /
Gabriele Vulpitta def. Branko Đurić / 
Arthur Géa, 6–3, 6–3
Girls' doubles
edit- Alena Kovačková / Laura Samsonová def. Hannah Klugman / Isabelle Lacy, 6–4, 7–5
Boys' 14&U singles
edit- Mark Ceban def.
Svit Suljić, 7–6(7–5), 6–3
Girls' 14&U singles
edit- Luna Vujović def. Hollie Smart, 6–3, 6–1
Gentlemen's invitation doubles
edit- Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan def. James Blake / Lleyton Hewitt, 6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
Ladies' invitation doubles
edit- Kim Clijsters /
Martina Hingis def. 
Cara Black / 
Caroline Wozniacki, 6–1, 7–5
Mixed invitation doubles
edit- Nenad Zimonjić / Rennae Stubbs def. Greg Rusedski / Conchita Martínez, 6–2, 6–2
Point and prize money distribution
editPoint distribution
editBelow is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament.
Senior points
edit| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 128 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Men's singles | 2000 | 1200 | 720 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 10 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 0 |
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| Men's doubles | 0 | — | — | 0 | ||||||||
| Women's singles | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 70 | 10 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 2 | |
| Women's doubles | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
Wheelchair pointsedit
Junior pointsedit
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Prize money
editThe Wimbledon Championships total prize money for 2023 is £44,700,000, an increase of 10.78% from the 2022 edition.[6]
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 1281 | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | £2,350,000 | £1,175,000 | £600,000 | £340,000 | £207,000 | £131,000 | £85,000 | £55,000 | £36,000 | £21,750 | £12,750 |
| Doubles * | £600,000 | £300,000 | £150,000 | £75,000 | £36,250 | £22,000 | £13,750 | — | — | — | — |
| Mixed Doubles * | £128,000 | £64,000 | £32,000 | £16,500 | £7,750 | £4,000 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wheelchair Singles | £60,000 | £31,000 | £21,000 | £14,500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wheelchair Doubles * | £26,000 | £13,000 | £8,000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Quad Singles | £60,000 | £31,000 | £21,000 | £14,500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Quad Doubles * | £26,000 | £13,000 | £8,000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
*per team
References
edit- ^ "Wimbledon reduces men's doubles to best of three sets from 2023 tournament". BBC. 25 January 2023.
- ^ "Wimbledon looks ahead as Centre Court celebrates centenary". Wimbledon. All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. 14 June 2023.
- ^ Wimbledon allows Russian and Belarusian players back into tournament, The Guardian
- ^ "Wimbledon to honor Roger Federer on Center Court". The Nation Wiew.com. 3 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ Froston, Nancy; Eccleshare, Charlie. "Wimbledon are relaxing their all-white dress code to ease the stress of women's periods" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Wimbledon Prize Money 2023". Retrieved 14 June 2023.