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The tournament was also not contested in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] The ladies' singles' rules have undergone several changes since the first edition. From 1886 until 1921, the event started with a knockout phase, the all comers' singles, whose winner then faced the defending champion in a challenge round.
Iga Świątek and Aryna Sabalenka were in contention for the women's singles No. 1 ranking at the start of the tournament. Świątek retained the No. 1 ranking after Sabalenka lost in the semifinals. [8] Elina Svitolina was the first wildcard to reach the Wimbledon semifinals since Sabine Lisicki in 2011. [9]
2020: No tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic: 2021: Novak Djokovic (x2) Ashleigh Barty: Nikola Mektić Mate Pavić: Hsieh Su-wei Elise Mertens: Desirae Krawczyk Neal Skupski (x2) 2022: Elena Rybakina: Matthew Ebden Max Purcell: Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková: 2023: Carlos Alcaraz (x2) Markéta Vondroušová: Wesley Koolhof Neal ...
Clervie Ngounoue won the title, defeating Nikola Bartůňková in the final, 6–2, 6–2. [1]Liv Hovde was the defending champion, [2] but chose not to participate. She received a wildcard into the women's singles qualifying competition, where she lost to fifth seed Diana Shnaider in the first round.
Total prize money was £26,150; the winner of the men's title earned £2,000 (equivalent to £43,800 in 2023) while the women's singles champion received £750 (equivalent to £16,400 in 2023) [125]. [126] [127] In 2007, Wimbledon and the French Open became the last grand slam tournaments to award unequal prize money to women and men. [128 ...
The winners of the men’s and women’s singles will take home a record £2.35m, ... Wimbledon 2023 prize money. Men’s and women’s singles. Winner. £2,350,000. Runner-up. £1,175,000.
In 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".
Vondroušová was the Wimbledon champion in 2023, the first unseeded woman to win the singles title. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She was also runner-up at the 2019 French Open where she became the first teenage major finalist since Jelena Ostapenko in 2017.