- No. 3 seed Aryna Sabalenka withdrew from Wimbledon resulting from a shoulder damage because the match began on Monday.
- Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz received his third main championship on the French Open three weeks in the past and defeated Novak Djokovic in final 12 months’s Wimbledon last. Alcaraz faces qualifier Mark Lajal of Estonia on Day 1.
- Previous Grand Slam title winners Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu had been additionally set to play matches on the opening day of the match. Raducanu has been coping with varied accidents since she received the 2021 U.S. Open at age 18.
Aryna Sabalenka pulled out of Wimbledon due to a shoulder damage because the match began on Monday, overshadowing early outcomes as everybody waited to seek out out whether or not Andy Murray would deem himself match sufficient to compete.
Sabalenka, the two-time Australian Open champion, mentioned she was “heartbroken” to announce her withdrawal after it grew to become clear in a apply session that she wasn’t prepared.
The No. 3 seed was seen as prime contender on the All England Membership, which has seen seven totally different girls win the title within the final seven years.
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No. 9-seeded Maria Sakkari was among the many early winners, and mentioned after beating McCartney Kessler 6-3, 6-1 that the ladies’s draw is huge open.
“We may title like 20, 25 ladies that might win the match proper now,” Sakkari mentioned.
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus reacts as she performs Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in a girls’s singles semifinal match on day eleven of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, on July 13, 2023. Sabalenka withdrew from Wimbledon on July 1, 2024, due to an injured shoulder. (AP Picture/Alberto Pezzali, File)
No. 7-seeded Jasmine Paolini, the French Open runner-up final month, received previous the primary spherical at Wimbledon on her fourth attempt. The Italian beat Sara Sorribes Tormo 7-5, 6-3.
On the lads’s aspect, No. 5-seeded Daniil Medvedev beat Aleksander Kovacevic 6-3, 6-4, 6-2, and No. 8-seeded Casper Ruud topped Alex Bolt 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-4. Unseeded Canadian Denis Shapovalov eradicated No. 19 Nicolas Jarry 6-1, 7-5, 6-4.
Denis Shapovalov of Canada celebrates throughout his first spherical match towards Nicolas Jarry of Chile on the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Picture/Mosa’ab Elshamy)
Additionally Monday, defending champion Carlos Alcaraz and previous Grand Slam title winners Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu had been all set to play matches at Centre Court docket.
Alcaraz simply received his third main championship on the French Open three weeks in the past. He defeated Novak Djokovic in final 12 months’s last at Wimbledon. Alcaraz faces qualifier Mark Lajal of Estonia on Day 1 on the All England Membership’s grass courts.
Mark Lajal of Estonia performs a forehand return to Carlos Alcaraz of Spain throughout their first spherical match of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Picture/Alberto Pezzali)
Raducanu won the 2021 U.S. Open at age 18, however she has been coping with varied accidents since then. Her scheduled opponent — Twenty second-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova — withdrew Monday morning due to sickness. Alexandrova was changed by Renata Zarazua, a so-called “fortunate loser” from the qualifying match.
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Gauff, who received the U.S. Open final September, closes out the day’s schedule in the principle stadium towards Caroline Dolehide in an all-American matchup.
No. 1-ranked Jannik Sinner can be on Monday’s schedule, enjoying Yannick Hanfmann at No. 1 Court docket.
