2018 Wimbledon Championships

2018 Wimbledon Championships
Date	2–15 July
Edition	132nd
Category	Grand Slam (ITF)
Draw	128S / 64D / 48XD
Prize money	£34,000,000[1]
Surface	Grass
Location	Church Road SW19, Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom
Venue	All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
Champions
Men's singles
Novak Djokovic
Women's singles
Angelique Kerber
Men's doubles
Mike Bryan / Jack Sock
Women's doubles
Barbora Krejčíková / Kateřina Siniaková
Mixed doubles
Alexander Peya / Nicole Melichar
Wheelchair men's singles
Stefan Olsson
Wheelchair women's singles
Diede de Groot
Wheelchair men's doubles
Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid
Wheelchair women's doubles
Diede de Groot / Yui Kamiji
Wheelchair quad doubles
Andrew Lapthorne / David Wagner
Boys' singles
Tseng Chun-hsin
Girls' singles
Iga Świątek
Boys' doubles
Yankı Erel / Otto Virtanen
Girls' doubles
Wang Xinyu / Wang Xiyu
Gentlemen's invitation doubles
Tommy Haas / Mark Philippoussis
Ladies' invitation doubles
Kim Clijsters / Rennae Stubbs
Senior gentlemen's invitation doubles
Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge
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The 2018 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament which took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main tournament began on Monday, 2 July 2018 and finished on Sunday, 15 July 2018. Novak Djokovic won the gentlemen's singles title and Angelique Kerber won the ladies' singles title.

The 2018 tournament was the 132nd edition of The Championships, the 125th staging of the ladies' singles Championship event,^[1] the 51st in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. It was played on grass courts and was part of the ATP World Tour, the WTA Tour, the ITF Junior tour and the NEC Tour. The tournament was organised by All England Lawn Tennis Club and International Tennis Federation.

Roger Federer and Garbiñe Muguruza were both unsuccessful in defending their 2017 titles. Federer lost in the quarterfinals to eventual finalist Kevin Anderson, while Muguruza lost in the second round to Alison Van Uytvanck.

The 2018 Wimbledon Championships was the 132nd edition of the tournament and was held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London.

The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and included in the 2018 ATP World Tour and the 2018 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 and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the UNIQLO Tour under the Grand Slam category.

The tournament was played only on grass courts; the main draw matches were played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon. Qualifying matches were played, from Monday 25 June to Thursday 28 June 2018, at the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton.^[1] The Tennis sub-committee met to decide wild card entries on 19 June.^[1]

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

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128	Q	Q3	Q2	Q1
Men's singles	2000	1200	720	360	180	90	45	10	25	16	8	0
Men's doubles							0	—		—	0
Women's singles		1300	780	430	240	130	70	10	40	30	20	2
Women's doubles							10	—	—	—	—	—

The Wimbledon total prize money for 2018 had increased to £34,000,000, up by 7.6% on 2017. The winners of the men's and women's singles titles will earn £2.25m.^[2] Prize money for the men's and women's doubles and wheelchair players were also increased for the 2018 competition.^[3]

A new rule in 2018 was that any first round singles player who is unfit to play and withdraws on-site after 12pm on Thursday before the start of the Main Draw will now receive half of the First Round prize money, the other half to be awarded to the replacement lucky loser. Any player who competes in the First Round Main Draw singles and retires or performs below professional standards, may now be subject to a fine of up to First Round prize money, to deter players from appearing only to claim prize money.^[1][4]

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128	Q3	Q2	Q1
Singles	£2,250,000	£1,125,000	£562,000	£281,000	£163,000	£100,000	£63,000	£39,000	£19,500	£9,750	£4,875
Doubles*	£450,000	£225,000	£112,000	£56,000	£29,000	£17,750	£11,500	—	—	—	—
Mixed doubles*	£110,000	£55,000	£27,500	£13,750	£6,500	£3,250	£1,625	—	—	—	—
Wheelchair singles	£40,000	£20,000	£13,000	£8,500	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Wheelchair doubles*	£14,000	£7,000	£4,500	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Invitation doubles	£26,000	£22,000	£19,000	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

_{* per team}^[3]

Champion		Runner-up
Novak Djokovic [12]		Kevin Anderson [8]
Semifinals out
John Isner [9]		Rafael Nadal [2]
Quarterfinals out
Roger Federer [1]	Milos Raonic [13]	Kei Nishikori [24]	Juan Martín del Potro [5]
4th round out
Adrian Mannarino [22]	Gaël Monfils	Mackenzie McDonald	Stefanos Tsitsipas [31]
Karen Khachanov	Ernests Gulbis (Q)	Gilles Simon	Jiří Veselý
3rd round out
Jan-Lennard Struff	Daniil Medvedev	Sam Querrey [11]	Philipp Kohlschreiber [25]
Guido Pella	Dennis Novak (Q)	Radu Albot	Thomas Fabbiano (Q)
Frances Tiafoe	Kyle Edmund [21]	Nick Kyrgios [15]	Alexander Zverev [4]
Benoît Paire	Matthew Ebden	Fabio Fognini [19]	Alex de Minaur
2nd round out
Lukáš Lacko	Ivo Karlović	Ryan Harrison	Guillermo García López
Sergiy Stakhovsky (WC)	Paolo Lorenzi	Gilles Müller	Andreas Seppi
Marin Čilić [3]	Nicolás Jarry	Lucas Pouille [17]	John Millman
Ruben Bemelmans (Q)	Aljaž Bedene	Jared Donaldson	Stan Wawrinka
Marcos Baghdatis	Julien Benneteau	Bradley Klahn (Q)	Horacio Zeballos
Robin Haase	Bernard Tomic (LL)	Damir Džumhur [27]	Taylor Fritz
Feliciano López	Denis Shapovalov [26]	Matteo Berrettini	Stéphane Robert (Q)
Diego Schwartzman [14]	Simone Bolelli (LL)	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	Mikhail Kukushkin
1st round out
Dušan Lajović	Benjamin Bonzi (Q)	Mikhail Youzhny	Leonardo Mayer [32]
Christian Garín (Q)	Roberto Carballés Baena	Gastão Elias	Borna Ćorić [16]
Jordan Thompson	João Sousa	Laslo Đere	Richard Gasquet [23]
Evgeny Donskoy	Michael Mmoh (LL)	John-Patrick Smith (Q)	Norbert Gombos (Q)
Yoshihito Nishioka (PR)	Jason Kubler (Q)	Ričardas Berankis	Filip Krajinović [28]
Denis Kudla (WC)	Peter Polansky (LL)	Stefano Travaglia (Q)	Liam Broady (WC)
Yannick Maden (Q)	Steve Johnson	Cameron Norrie	Pablo Carreño Busta [20]
Grégoire Barrère (Q)	Malek Jaziri	Yuki Bhambri	Grigor Dimitrov [6]
Dominic Thiem [7]	David Ferrer	Márton Fucsovics	Fernando Verdasco [30]
Alex Bolt (Q)	Yūichi Sugita	Guido Andreozzi	Tennys Sandgren
Denis Istomin	Marius Copil	Hubert Hurkacz (LL)	Christian Harrison (Q)
Maximilian Marterer	Jay Clarke (WC)	Lorenzo Sonego (LL)	James Duckworth (PR)
Peter Gojowczyk	Federico Delbonis	Jason Jung (LL)	Jérémy Chardy
Jack Sock [16]	Nikoloz Basilashvili	Albert Ramos Viñolas	David Goffin [10]
Mirza Bašić	Florian Mayer	Pablo Cuevas	Taro Daniel
Marco Cecchinato [29]	Mischa Zverev	Vasek Pospisil	Dudi Sela

Champion		Runner-up
Angelique Kerber [11]		Serena Williams [25/PR]
Semifinals out
Jeļena Ostapenko [12]		Julia Görges [13]
Quarterfinals out
Dominika Cibulková	Daria Kasatkina [14]	Kiki Bertens [20]	Camila Giorgi
4th round out
Hsieh Su-wei	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	Alison Van Uytvanck	Belinda Bencic
Karolína Plíšková [7]	Donna Vekić	Evgeniya Rodina (Q)	Ekaterina Makarova
3rd round out
Simona Halep [1]	Elise Mertens [15]	Vitalia Diatchenko (Q)	Daria Gavrilova [26]
Anett Kontaveit [28]	Ashleigh Barty [17]	Naomi Osaka [18]	Carla Suárez Navarro [27]
Mihaela Buzărnescu [29]	Venus Williams [9]	Barbora Strýcová [23]	Yanina Wickmayer
Kristina Mladenovic	Madison Keys [10]	Kateřina Siniaková	Lucie Šafářová
2nd round out
Zheng Saisai (PR)	Lara Arruabarrena	Johanna Konta [22]	Sachia Vickery
Kirsten Flipkens	Sofia Kenin	Samantha Stosur	Taylor Townsend
Garbiñe Muguruza [3]	Jennifer Brady	Eugenie Bouchard (Q)	Yulia Putintseva
Claire Liu (Q)	Katie Boulter (WC)	Sara Sorribes Tormo (Q)	Alison Riske
Victoria Azarenka	Katie Swan (WC)	Anna Blinkova	Alexandra Dulgheru (Q)
Vera Lapko	Lesia Tsurenko	Andrea Petkovic	Rebecca Peterson
Tatjana Maria	Viktoriya Tomova (Q)	Sorana Cîrstea	Luksika Kumkhum
Ons Jabeur (WC)	Madison Brengle	Agnieszka Radwańska [32]	Caroline Wozniacki [2]
1st round out
Kurumi Nara	Wang Qiang	Ana Bogdan	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [30]
Natalia Vikhlyantseva	Alizé Cornet	Markéta Vondroušová	Danielle Collins
Katy Dunne (WC)	Heather Watson	Maria Sakkari	Maria Sharapova [24]
Caroline Dolehide (LL)	Peng Shuai	Pauline Parmentier	Petra Kvitová [8]
Naomi Broady (WC)	Polona Hercog	Kateryna Kozlova	Denisa Allertová
Stefanie Vögele	Gabriella Taylor (WC)	Magda Linette	Jana Fett
Vera Zvonareva (Q)	Ana Konjuh	Verónica Cepede Royg	Monica Niculescu
Carina Witthöft	Kaia Kanepi	Mariana Duque Mariño (LL)	Caroline Garcia [6]
Harriet Dart (WC)	Ekaterina Alexandrova	Irina-Camelia Begu	Aryna Sabalenka
Barbora Štefková (Q)	Wang Yafan	Kristýna Plíšková	Johanna Larsson
Monica Puig	Christina McHale	Tímea Babos	Svetlana Kuznetsova
Zhang Shuai [31]	Mona Barthel (Q)	Viktória Kužmová	Sloane Stephens [4]
Elina Svitolina [5]	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	Tereza Smitková (WC)	Arantxa Rus
Magdaléna Rybáriková [19]	Antonia Lottner (Q)	Bernarda Pera	Ajla Tomljanović
Coco Vandeweghe [16]	Viktorija Golubic	Aleksandra Krunić	Anastasija Sevastova [21]
Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q)	Kateryna Bondarenko	Petra Martić	Varvara Lepchenko

The seeds for men's singles 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 25 June 2018:

• Take Entry System Position points at 25 June 2018.
• Add 100% points earned for all grass court tournaments in the past 12 months (26 June 2017 – 24 June 2018).
• Add 75% points earned for best grass court tournament in the 12 months before that (20 June 2016 – 25 June 2017).

Rank and points before are as of 2 July 2018.

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	2	Roger Federer	8,720	2,000	360	7,080	Quarterfinals lost to Kevin Anderson [8]
2	1	Rafael Nadal	8,770	180	720	9,310	Semifinals lost to Novak Djokovic [12]
3	5	Marin Čilić	5,060	1,200	45	3,905	Second round lost to Guido Pella
4	3	Alexander Zverev	5,755	180	90	5,665	Third round lost to Ernests Gulbis [Q]
5	4	Juan Martín del Potro	5,080	45	360	5,395	Quarterfinals lost to Rafael Nadal [2]
6	6	Grigor Dimitrov	4,780	180	10	4,610	First round lost to Stan Wawrinka
7	7	Dominic Thiem	3,835	180	10	3,665	First round retired against Marcos Baghdatis
8	8	Kevin Anderson	3,635	180	1,200	4,655	Runner-up, lost to Novak Djokovic [12]
9	10	John Isner	3,045	45	720	3,720	Semifinals lost to Kevin Anderson [8]
10	9	David Goffin	3,110	0	10	3,120	First round lost to Matthew Ebden
11	13	Sam Querrey	2,130	720	90	1,500	Third round lost to Gaël Monfils
12	21	Novak Djokovic	1,715	360	2,000	3,355	Champion, defeated Kevin Anderson [8]
13	32	Milos Raonic	1,430	360	360	1,430	Quarterfinals lost to John Isner [9]
14	11	Diego Schwartzman	2,435	10	45	2,470	Second round lost to Jiří Veselý
15	18	Nick Kyrgios	1,855	10	90	1,935	Third round lost to Kei Nishikori [24]
16	20	Borna Ćorić	1,745	10	10	1,745	First round lost to Daniil Medvedev
17	19	Lucas Pouille	1,835	45	45	1,835	Second round lost to Dennis Novak [Q]
18	15	Jack Sock	2,110	45	10	2,075	First round lost to Matteo Berrettini
19	16	Fabio Fognini	2,030	90	90	2,030	Third round lost to Jiří Veselý
20	12	Pablo Carreño Busta	2,145	0	10	2,155	First round lost to Radu Albot
21	17	Kyle Edmund	1,950	45	90	1,995	Third round lost to Novak Djokovic [12]
22	26	Adrian Mannarino	1,580	180	180	1,580	Fourth round lost to Roger Federer [1]
23	31	Richard Gasquet	1,465	10	10	1,465	First round lost to Gaël Monfils
24	28	Kei Nishikori	1,530	90	360	1,800	Quarterfinals lost to Novak Djokovic [12]
25	27	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1,575	10	90	1,655	Third round lost to Kevin Anderson [8]
26	25	Denis Shapovalov	1,588	0	45	1,633	Second round lost to Benoît Paire
27	23	Damir Džumhur	1,665	45	45	1,665	Second round lost to Ernests Gulbis [Q]
28	30	Filip Krajinović	1,489	(80)†	10	1,419	First round lost to Nicolás Jarry
29	29	Marco Cecchinato	1,514	10+10	10+6	1,510	First round lost to Alex de Minaur
30	34	Fernando Verdasco	1,280	10	10	1,280	First round lost to Frances Tiafoe
31	35	Stefanos Tsitsipas	1,254	35	180	1,399	Fourth round lost to John Isner [9]
32	36	Leonardo Mayer	1,235	(48)†	10	1,197	First round lost to Jan-Lennard Struff

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017 but is defending points from the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour instead.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Reason
14	Roberto Bautista Agut	2,120	180	1,940	Hip injury
22	Chung Hyeon	1,685	0	1,685	Ankle injury
24	Tomáš Berdych	1,625	720	905	Back injury
33	Andrey Rublev	1,281	70	1,211	Back injury

The seeds for ladies' singles are based on the WTA rankings as of 25 June 2018, with an exception for Serena Williams (details are given below). Rank and points before are as of 2 July 2018.

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Simona Halep	7,871	430	130	7,571	Third round lost to Hsieh Su-wei
2	2	Caroline Wozniacki	6,910	240	70	6,740	Second round lost to Ekaterina Makarova
3	3	Garbiñe Muguruza	6,550	2,000	70	4,620	Second round lost to Alison Van Uytvanck
4	4	Sloane Stephens	5,463	10	10	5,463	First round lost to Donna Vekić
5	5	Elina Svitolina	5,250	240	10	5,020	First round lost to Tatjana Maria
6	6	Caroline Garcia	4,960	240	10	4,730	First round lost to Belinda Bencic
7	8	Karolína Plíšková	4,315	70	240	4,485	Fourth round lost to Kiki Bertens [20]
8	7	Petra Kvitová	4,610	70	10	4,550	First round lost to Aliaksandra Sasnovich
9	9	Venus Williams	3,971	1,300	130	2,801	Third round lost to Kiki Bertens [20]
10	11	Madison Keys	3,536	70	130	3,596	Third round lost to Evgeniya Rodina [Q]
11	10	Angelique Kerber	3,545	240	2,000	5,305	Champion, defeated Serena Williams [25/PR]
12	12	Jeļena Ostapenko	3,437	430	780	3,787	Semifinals lost to Angelique Kerber [11]
13	13	Julia Görges	3,210	10	780	3,980	Semifinals lost to Serena Williams [25/PR]
14	14	Daria Kasatkina	3,165	70	430	3,525	Quarterfinals lost to Angelique Kerber [11]
15	15	Elise Mertens	2,635	10	130	2,755	Third round lost to Dominika Cibulková
16	16	CoCo Vandeweghe	2,603	430	10	2,183	First round lost to Kateřina Siniaková
17	17	Ashleigh Barty	2,435	10	130	2,555	Third round lost to Daria Kasatkina [14]
18	18	Naomi Osaka	2,350	130	130	2,350	Third round lost to Angelique Kerber [11]
19	19	Magdaléna Rybáriková	2,310	780	10	1,540	First round lost to Sorana Cîrstea
20	20	Kiki Bertens	2,090	10	430	2,510	Quarterfinals lost to Julia Görges [13]
21	21	Anastasija Sevastova	2,005	70	10	1,945	First round lost to Camila Giorgi
22	24	Johanna Konta	1,866	780	70	1,156	Second round lost to Dominika Cibulková
23	23	Barbora Strýcová	1,915	70	130	1,975	Third round lost to Julia Görges [13]
24	22	Maria Sharapova	1,943	0	10	1,953	First round lost to Vitalia Diatchenko [Q]
25‡	181	Serena Williams	315	0	1,300	1,615	Runner-up, lost to Angelique Kerber [11]
26	25	Daria Gavrilova	1,765	10	130	1,885	Third round lost to Aliaksandra Sasnovich
27	26	Carla Suárez Navarro	1,677	70	130	1,737	Third round lost to Belinda Bencic
28	27	Anett Kontaveit	1,656	130	130	1,656	Third round lost to Alison Van Uytvanck
29	28	Mihaela Buzărnescu	1,648	(85)†	130	1,693	Third round lost to Karolína Plíšková [7]
30	29	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1,596	10	10	1,596	First round lost to Hsieh Su-wei
31	31	Zhang Shuai	1,545	10	10	1,545	First round lost to Andrea Petkovic
32	30	Agnieszka Radwańska	1,580	240	70	1,410	Second round lost to Lucie Šafářová

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for her 16th-best result are deducted instead.
‡ Serena Williams was ranked outside the top 150 on the day when seeds were announced, because she missed most of the last 12-month period due to her pregnancy. Nevertheless, she was deemed a special case and seeded 25th by the organisers.

Team		Rank1	Seed
Mate Pavić	Gabriela Dabrowski	10	1
Bruno Soares	Ekaterina Makarova	15	2
Ivan Dodig	Latisha Chan	21	3
Jean-Julien Rojer	Demi Schuurs	27	4
Nikola Mektić	Chan Hao-ching	29	5
Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková	31	6
Robert Farah	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	34	7
Rajeev Ram	Andreja Klepač	42	8
Michael Venus	Katarina Srebotnik	51	9
Juan Sebastián Cabal	Abigail Spears	52	10
Alexander Peya	Nicole Melichar	52	11
Matwé Middelkoop	Johanna Larsson	55	12
Max Mirnyi	Květa Peschke	56	13
Ben McLachlan	Eri Hozumi	59	14
Marcelo Demoliner	María José Martínez Sánchez	61	15
Henri Kontinen	Heather Watson	65	16

• ¹ Rankings were as of 2 July 2018.

• Novak Djokovic def. Kevin Anderson, 6–2, 6–2, 7–6^(7–3)

• Angelique Kerber def. Serena Williams, 6–3, 6–3

• Mike Bryan / Jack Sock def. Raven Klaasen / Michael Venus, 6–3, 6–7^(7–9), 6–3, 5–7, 7–5

• Barbora Krejčíková / Kateřina Siniaková def. Nicole Melichar / Květa Peschke, 6–4, 4–6, 6–0

• Alexander Peya / Nicole Melichar def. Jamie Murray / Victoria Azarenka, 7–6^(7–1), 6–3

• Tseng Chun-hsin def. Jack Draper, 6–1, 6–7^(2–7), 6–4

• Iga Świątek def. Leonie Küng, 6–4, 6–2

• Yankı Erel / Otto Virtanen def. Nicolás Mejía / Ondřej Štyler, 7–6^(7–5), 6–4

• Wang Xinyu / Wang Xiyu def. Caty McNally / Whitney Osuigwe, 6–2, 6–1

• Tommy Haas / Mark Philippoussis def. Colin Fleming / Xavier Malisse, 7–6^(7–4), 6–4

• Kim Clijsters / Rennae Stubbs def. Cara Black / Martina Navratilova, 6–3, 6–4

• Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge def. Richard Krajicek / Mark Petchey, 6–4, 6–3

• Stefan Olsson def. Gustavo Fernández, 6–2, 0–6, 6–3

• Diede de Groot def. Aniek van Koot, 6–3, 6–2

• Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid def. Joachim Gérard / Stefan Olsson, 6–1, 6–4

• Diede de Groot / Yui Kamiji def. Sabine Ellerbrock / Lucy Shuker, 6–1, 6–1

• Andrew Lapthorne / David Wagner def. Dylan Alcott / Lucas Sithole, 6–2, 6–3

The following players received wild cards into the main draw senior events.^[5]

• Luke Bambridge / Katie Boulter
• Jay Clarke / Harriet Dart
• Dominic Inglot / Samantha Stosur
• Thanasi Kokkinakis / Ashleigh Barty
• Joe Salisbury / Katy Dunne