2019 Wimbledon Championships

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

Tournament

The 2019 Wimbledon Championships was the 133rd edition of the tournament and was held at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. It was also the last regular tennis tournament to be staged before the cancellation was confirmed in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first such cancellation since World War II.

The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was included in the 2019 ATP Tour and the 2019 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles), mixed doubles, boys (under 18 – singles and doubles) and girls (under 18 – singles and doubles), which was also 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 as part of the UNIQLO Tour under the Grand Slam category, also hosting singles and doubles events for wheelchair quad tennis for the first time.

The tournament was played only on grass courts; main draw matches were played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon. Qualifying matches were played, from Monday 24 June to Thursday 27 June 2019, at the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton. The Tennis Sub-Committee met to decide wild card entries on 17 June.

Singles players

Gentlemen's singles

Ladies' singles

Events

Gentlemen's singles

* Novak Djokovic def. Roger Federer, 7–6^(7–5), 1–6, 7–6^(7–4), 4–6, 13–12^(7–3)

Ladies' singles

* Simona Halep def. Serena Williams, 6–2, 6–2

Gentlemen's doubles

* Juan Sebastián Cabal / Robert Farah def. Nicolas Mahut / Édouard Roger-Vasselin, 6–7^(5–7), 7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(8–6), 6–7^(5–7), 6–3

Ladies' doubles

* Hsieh Su-wei / Barbora Strýcová def. Gabriela Dabrowski / Xu Yifan, 6–2, 6–4

Mixed doubles

* Ivan Dodig / Latisha Chan def. Robert Lindstedt / Jeļena Ostapenko, 6–2, 6–3

Wheelchair gentlemen's singles

* Gustavo Fernández def. Shingo Kunieda, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2

Wheelchair ladies' singles

* Aniek van Koot def. Diede de Groot, 6–4, 4–6, 7–5

Wheelchair quad singles

* Dylan Alcott def. Andrew Lapthorne, 6−0, 6−2

Wheelchair gentlemen's doubles

* Joachim Gérard / Stefan Olsson def. Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid, 6−4, 6−2

Wheelchair ladies' doubles

* Diede de Groot / Aniek van Koot def. Marjolein Buis / Giulia Capocci, 6−1, 6−1

Wheelchair quad doubles

* Dylan Alcott / Andrew Lapthorne def. Koji Sugeno / David Wagner, 6–2, 7–6^(7–4)

Boys' singles

* Shintaro Mochizuki def. Carlos Gimeno Valero, 6–3, 6–2

Girls' singles

* Daria Snigur def. Alexa Noel, 6−4, 6−4

Boys' doubles

* Jonáš Forejtek / Jiří Lehečka def. Liam Draxl / Govind Nanda, 7−5, 6−4

Girls' doubles

* Savannah Broadus / Abigail Forbes def. Kamilla Bartone / Oksana Selekhmeteva, 7–5, 5–7, 6–2

Gentlemen's invitation doubles

* Arnaud Clément / Michaël Llodra def. Xavier Malisse / Max Mirnyi, 6–3, 1–6, 0–7

Ladies' invitation doubles

* Cara Black / Martina Navratilova def. Marion Bartoli / Daniela Hantuchová, 6–0, 3–6, 0–8

Senior gentlemen's invitation doubles

* Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge def. Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis, 4−6, 6−3, 0−6

Singles seeds

Gentlemen's singles

Seeds are adjusted on a surface-based system to reflect more accurately the individual player's grass court achievement as per the following formula, which applies to the top 32 players according to the ATP rankings on 24 June 2019:
* Take Entry System Position points at 24 June 2019.
* Add 100% points earned for all grass court tournaments in the past 12 months (25 June 2018 – 23 June 2019).
* Add 75% points earned for best grass court tournament in the 12 months before that (26 June 2017 – 24 June 2018).

Rank and points before are as of 1 July 2019.

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2018, but is defending points from an ATP Challenger Tour tournament.

The following player would have been seeded, but withdrew before the event.

Ladies' singles

The seeds for ladies' singles are based on the WTA rankings as of 24 June 2019. Rank and points before are as of 1 July 2019.

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2018. Accordingly, points for her 16th best result are deducted instead.

The following player would have been seeded, but withdrew from the event.

Doubles seeds

Gentlemen's doubles

*¹ Rankings are as of 24 June 2019.

Ladies' doubles

*¹ Rankings are as of 24 June 2019.

Mixed doubles

*¹ Rankings are as of 1 July 2019.

Point distribution and prize money

Point distribution

Below is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament.

Senior points

Wheelchair points

Junior points

Prize money

The total prize money on offer has increased for the eighth year in a row. Winners of the tournament will get the largest share of the £38m pot, up from £34m last year (+11.8%).

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Main draw wildcard entries

The following players will receive wild cards into the main draw senior events.

Gentlemen's singles

* Marcos Baghdatis
* Jay Clarke
* Paul Jubb
* Dominik Köpfer
* Feliciano López
* James Ward

Ladies' singles

* Harriet Dart
* Monica Niculescu
* Katie Swan

Gentlemen's doubles

* Liam Broady / Scott Clayton
* Jay Clarke / James Ward
* Jack Draper / Paul Jubb
* Dan Evans / Lloyd Glasspool
* Lleyton Hewitt / Jordan Thompson
* Evan Hoyt / Luke Johnson

Ladies' doubles

* Naiktha Bains / Naomi Broady
* Freya Christie / Katie Swan
* Harriet Dart / Katy Dunne
* Sarah Beth Grey / Eden Silva

Mixed doubles

* Jay Clarke / Coco Gauff
* Scott Clayton / Sarah Beth Grey
* Evan Hoyt / Eden Silva
* Jonny O'Mara / Naomi Broady
* Joe Salisbury / Katy Dunne

Main draw qualifier entries

Gentlemen's singles

# Corentin Moutet
# Yasutaka Uchiyama
# Andrea Arnaboldi
# Alexei Popyrin
# Kwon Soon-woo
# Thiago Monteiro
# Jiří Veselý
# Salvatore Caruso
# Marcel Granollers
# Marcos Giron
# Kamil Majchrzak
# Grégoire Barrère
# Noah Rubin
# Dennis Novak
# Yūichi Sugita
# Ruben Bemelmans
;Lucky loser
# Brayden Schnur

Ladies' singles

# Cori Gauff
# Tereza Martincová
# Kristie Ahn
# Arina Rodionova
# Anna Kalinskaya
# Kaja Juvan
# Caty McNally
# Varvara Flink
# Paula Badosa
# Giulia Gatto-Monticone
# Elena-Gabriela Ruse
# Ysaline Bonaventure
# Ana Bogdan
# Beatriz Haddad Maia
# Lesley Kerkhove
# Yanina Wickmayer

;Lucky losers
# Marie Bouzková
# Lauren Davis
# Christina McHale

Protected ranking

The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:

; Gentlemen's Singles
* Tomáš Berdych (PR 57)
* Steve Darcis (PR 90)
* Jozef Kovalík (PR 85)
* Vasek Pospisil (PR 73)
* Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (PR 95)
* Janko Tipsarević (PR 88)

; Ladies' Singles
* Anna-Lena Friedsam (PR 50)
* Shelby Rogers (PR 81)

Withdrawals

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament but withdrew with injuries or other reasons:

; Gentlemen's Singles
* Borna Ćorić → replaced by Brayden Schnur
* Juan Martín del Potro → replaced by Paolo Lorenzi
* Mackenzie McDonald → replaced by Denis Istomin

; Ladies' Singles
* Bianca Andreescu → replaced by Kristýna Plíšková
* Dominika Cibulková → replaced by Marie Bouzková
* Ekaterina Makarova → replaced by Svetlana Kuznetsova
* Evgeniya Rodina → replaced by Lauren Davis
* CoCo Vandeweghe → replaced by Ivana Jorović
* Vera Zvonareva → replaced by Christina McHale

References

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