2019 Wimbledon Championships

2019 Wimbledon Championships
Date1–14 July[1]
Edition133rd
CategoryGrand Slam (ITF)
Draw128S / 64D / 48XD
Prize money£ 38,000,000
SurfaceGrass
LocationChurch Road
SW19, Wimbledon,
London, United Kingdom
VenueAll England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
Champions
Men's singles
Serbia Novak Djokovic
Women's singles
Romania Simona Halep
Men's doubles
Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal / Colombia Robert Farah
Women's doubles
Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei / Czech Republic Barbora Strýcová
Mixed doubles
Croatia Ivan Dodig / Chinese Taipei Latisha Chan
Wheelchair men's singles
Argentina Gustavo Fernández
Wheelchair women's singles
Netherlands Aniek van Koot
Wheelchair quad singles
Australia Dylan Alcott
Wheelchair men's doubles
Belgium Joachim Gérard / Sweden Stefan Olsson
Wheelchair women's doubles
Netherlands Diede de Groot / Netherlands Aniek van Koot
Wheelchair quad doubles
Australia Dylan Alcott / United Kingdom Andrew Lapthorne
Boys' singles
Japan Shintaro Mochizuki
Girls' singles
Ukraine Daria Snigur
Boys' doubles
Czech Republic Jonáš Forejtek / Czech Republic Jiří Lehečka
Girls' doubles
United States Savannah Broadus / United States Abigail Forbes
Gentlemen's invitation doubles
France Arnaud Clément / France Michaël Llodra
Ladies' invitation doubles
Zimbabwe Cara Black / United States Martina Navratilova
Senior gentlemen's invitation doubles
Sweden Jonas Björkman / Australia Todd Woodbridge

The 2019 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main tournament began on Monday 1 July 2019 and finished on Sunday 14 July 2019.[1]

The defending gentlemen's singles champion Novak Djokovic retained his title, while the defending ladies' singles champion Angelique Kerber lost in the second round to Lauren Davis. Simona Halep won the ladies' singles title, her second major title after the French Open in 2018. This tournament marked the first grand slam main draw appearance of 2023 US Open women's singles champion Coco Gauff, who progressed to the fourth round as a fifteen-year-old, after being awarded a wildcard into qualifying.

This was the first edition of the tournament to feature a standard tie break in the final set when the score in the set was 12 games all. The winner was the first player or pair to reach seven points whilst leading by two or more points or, in the case of a 6-6 point score, to establish a subsequent lead of two points. Henri Kontinen and John Peers won the first such tie break played in Wimbledon history, defeating Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in a third-round men's doubles match.[2] In men's singles, the only such match was the final in which Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer, in what was also the longest final in tournament history lasting for 4 hours and 57 minutes.[3]

Women's singles included 16 qualifiers from 128 entrants, an increase from 12 qualifiers from 96 entrants. Doubles qualifying was eliminated as a result. The change brought the qualification for the women's singles into line with that for the men's singles, which remained unchanged.[4]

This was the last edition of the Wimbledon Championships until 2021 after the event would be cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first such cancellation since World War II. This was also the last major final contested by eight-time champion and twelve-time finalist Roger Federer.

  1. ^ a b "ATP Announces 2019 ATP World Tour Calendar". ATP World Tour. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. ^ "The Latest: Wimbledon doubles match sees 5th-set tiebreaker". AP NEWS. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  3. ^ Clarke, Liz; Wallace, Ava. "Novak Djokovic beats Roger Federer in marathon fifth set to win second straight Wimbledon title". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Wimbledon: Final set tie-breaks to be introduced in 2019". BBC Sport. 19 October 2018.

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