2008 Wimbledon Championships | |
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Date | 23 June – 6 July |
Edition | 122nd |
Category | Grand Slam (ITF) |
Draw | 128S / 64D / 48XD |
Prize money | £11,812,000 |
Surface | Grass |
Location | Church Road SW19, Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom |
Venue | All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club |
Attendance | 475,812 |
Champions | |
Men's singles | |
Rafael Nadal | |
Women's singles | |
Venus Williams | |
Men's doubles | |
Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić | |
Women's doubles | |
Serena Williams / Venus Williams | |
Mixed doubles | |
Bob Bryan / Samantha Stosur | |
Wheelchair men's doubles | |
Robin Ammerlaan / Ronald Vink | |
Boys' singles | |
Grigor Dimitrov | |
Girls' singles | |
Laura Robson | |
Boys' doubles | |
Hsieh Cheng-peng / Yang Tsung-hua | |
Girls' doubles | |
Polona Hercog / Jessica Moore | |
Gentlemen's invitation doubles | |
Donald Johnson / Jared Palmer | |
Ladies' invitation doubles | |
Jana Novotná / Kathy Rinaldi | |
Senior gentlemen's invitation doubles | |
Ken Flach / Robert Seguso |
The 2008 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom.[1][2] It was the 122nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 23 June to 6 July 2008. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year.
Spanish player Rafael Nadal won the first Wimbledon title of his career; the first Grand Slam tournament he had won other than the French Open. Nadal defeated five-time defending champion Roger Federer in the final in what many regard as the greatest tennis match of all time.[3][4][5] In the women's singles, Venus Williams claimed her fifth title, and first win over her sister Serena in a Wimbledon final (she had lost the previous two). The performances of Britons Andy Murray in the men's singles and Laura Robson in the girls' singles were able to arouse significant interest from the home crowd.
Following the completion of the 2007 Championships, the new fixed roof was put in place at Centre Court, in time for the 2008 Championships. The retractable section of the new roof was completed for the 2009 Championships.