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2022 Wimbledon Championships
Date	27 June – 10 July
Edition	135th
Category	Grand Slam (ITF)
Draw	128S / 64D / 32XD
Prize money	£40,350,000
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
Elena Rybakina
Men's doubles
Matthew Ebden / Max Purcell
Women's doubles
Barbora Krejčíková / Kateřina Siniaková
Mixed doubles
Neal Skupski / Desirae Krawczyk
Wheelchair men's singles
Shingo Kunieda
Wheelchair women's singles
Diede de Groot
Wheelchair quad singles
Sam Schröder
Wheelchair men's doubles
Gustavo Fernández / Shingo Kunieda
Wheelchair women's doubles
Yui Kamiji / Dana Mathewson
Wheelchair quad doubles
Sam Schroder / Niels Vink
Boys' singles
Mili Poljičak
Girls' singles
Liv Hovde
Boys' doubles
Sebastian Gorzny / Alex Michelsen
Girls' doubles
Rose Marie Nijkamp / Angella Okutoyi Boys' 14&U singles Cho Se-hyuk Girls' 14&U singles Alexia Ioana Tatu
Gentlemen's invitation doubles
Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
Ladies' invitation doubles
Kim Clijsters / Martina Hingis
Mixed invitation doubles
Nenad Zimonjić / Marion Bartoli
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The 2022 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tier tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Novak Djokovic successfully defended his gentlemen's singles title to claim his 21st major title, defeating Nick Kyrgios in the final. Ashleigh Barty was the reigning ladies' champion, but did not defend her title after retiring from professional tennis in March 2022. The ladies' singles title was won by Elena Rybakina, who defeated Ons Jabeur in the final.

This year, the AELTC barred Russian and Belarusian players from competing because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In reaction, the WTA, ATP, and ITF withdrew ranking points from the tournament.

Tournament

The tournament was played on grass courts, with all main draw matches played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon from 27 June to 10 July 2022. Initial wild card entries were first announced on 14 June 2022. Qualifying matches were played from 20 June to 23 June 2022 at the Bank of England Sports Ground in Roehampton.

The 2022 championships were the 135th edition, the 128th staging of the ladies’ singles championship event, the 54th in the Open Era, and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament was being run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and included in the 2022 ATP Tour and the 2022 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category, as well as the 2022 ITF tours for junior and wheelchair competitions respectively. The tournament consisted of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles), mixed doubles, boys' (under 18 – singles and doubles, under 14 – singles), girls' (under 18 – singles and doubles, under 14 – singles), which were 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. This edition marked the return of the gentlemen's and ladies' invitational doubles competitions for the first time since 2019, along with the introduction of a new mixed invitational doubles draw.

This was the tournament's first edition with a scheduled order of play on the first Sunday during the event, dubbed "Middle Sunday". Prior to the 2022 edition, the tournament had seen only four exceptions to the tradition of withholding competition on Middle Sunday to accommodate delayed matches during championships that were heavily disrupted by rain. Additionally, this was the first edition of the tournament to have a champions tie break rule in the final set. Unlike in 2019 and 2021, which had a standard seven-point tie break at 12 games all in the final set, this tie break was played up to 10 points when a match reaches 6 games all, to be won by two clear points to win the match.

To commemorate the centenary of the opening of Centre Court in 1922 and to mark the inauguration of middle Sunday play, several former singles champions were invited to a special celebration on Sunday 3 July 2022. The event was hosted by Sue Barker and Clare Balding with John McEnroe, who paid tribute to Barker's thirty years as the BBC's Wimbledon presenter. The champions were presented first by the number of singles titles won and then chronologically within that category from furthest to most recent winners. In order of presentation the champions were: one-time winners – Angela Mortimer, Ann Jones, Stan Smith, Jan Kodeš, Patrick "Pat" Cash, Conchita Martínez, Martina Hingis, Goran Ivanišević, Lleyton Hewitt, Marion Bartoli, Angelique Kerber and Simona Halep; two-time winners – Stefan Edberg, Rafael Nadal, Petra Kvitová and Andy Murray; three-time winners – Margaret Smith Court, John Newcombe, Chris Evert and John McEnroe; four-time winner Rod Laver; five-time winners Björn Borg and Venus Williams; six-time winners Billie Jean King and Novak Djokovic; and eight-time winner Roger Federer. The only nine-time singles champion, Martina Navratilova, cancelled her appearance after contracting COVID-19 on the morning of the event. British former player Tim Henman was also presented to reminisce about his matches on the court as a member of the Wimbledon Committee of Management.

Singles players

• Gentlemen's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Novak Djokovic		Nick Kyrgios
Semifinals out
Cameron Norrie		Rafael Nadal
Quarterfinals out
Jannik Sinner	David Goffin	Cristian Garín	Taylor Fritz
4th round out
Tim van Rijthoven (WC)	Carlos Alcaraz	Frances Tiafoe	Tommy Paul
Alex de Minaur	Brandon Nakashima	Jason Kubler (Q)	Botic van de Zandschulp
3rd round out
Miomir Kecmanović	Nikoloz Basilashvili	John Isner	Oscar Otte
Ugo Humbert	Alexander Bublik	Steve Johnson	Jiří Veselý
Jenson Brooksby	Liam Broady (WC)	Daniel Elahi Galán	Stefanos Tsitsipas
Jack Sock (Q)	Alex Molčan	Richard Gasquet	Lorenzo Sonego
2nd round out
Thanasi Kokkinakis	Alejandro Tabilo	Quentin Halys	Reilly Opelka
Mikael Ymer	Andy Murray	Christian Harrison (Q)	Tallon Griekspoor
Casper Ruud	Sebastián Báez	Maximilian Marterer (Q)	Dušan Lajović
Jaume Munar	Ryan Peniston (WC)	Adrian Mannarino	Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Hugo Grenier (LL)	Benjamin Bonzi	Jack Draper	Diego Schwartzman
Denis Shapovalov	Roberto Bautista Agut	Filip Krajinović	Jordan Thompson
Maxime Cressy	Dennis Novak (Q)	Marcos Giron	Alastair Gray (WC)
Mackenzie McDonald	Emil Ruusuvuori	Hugo Gaston	Ričardas Berankis
1st round out
Kwon Soon-woo	Kamil Majchrzak	Laslo Đere	John Millman
Lukáš Rosol (Q)	Benoît Paire	Federico Delbonis	Carlos Taberner
Stan Wawrinka (WC)	Daniel Altmaier	James Duckworth	Enzo Couacaud (Q)
Peter Gojowczyk	Jay Clarke (WC)	Fabio Fognini	Jan-Lennard Struff
Albert Ramos Viñolas	Tomás Martín Etcheverry	Radu Albot (Q)	Taro Daniel
Andrea Vavassori (Q)	Aljaž Bedene (PR)	Márton Fucsovics	Pablo Carreño Busta
Pablo Andújar	Thiago Monteiro	Henri Laaksonen	Grigor Dimitrov
Fernando Verdasco	Max Purcell (Q)	Federico Coria	Hubert Hurkacz
Elias Ymer (LL)	Marc-Andrea Hüsler (Q)	Zdeněk Kolář (LL)	Mikhail Kukushkin (Q)
Hugo Dellien	Zizou Bergs (WC)	Lukáš Klein (Q)	Stefan Kozlov (LL)
Arthur Rinderknech	Nicola Kuhn (Q)	Dominik Koepfer	Attila Balázs (PR)
Jiří Lehečka	Paul Jubb (WC)	Roberto Carballés Baena	Alexander Ritschard (Q)
Félix Auger-Aliassime	Bernabé Zapata Miralles (Q)	Facundo Bagnis	Dan Evans
Holger Rune	Pedro Martínez	Tseng Chun-hsin	Lorenzo Musetti
Nuno Borges (LL)	João Sousa	Yoshihito Nishioka	Feliciano López
Denis Kudla	Alexei Popyrin	Sam Querrey	Francisco Cerúndolo

• Ladies' singles

Champion		Runner-up
Elena Rybakina		Ons Jabeur
Semifinals out
Simona Halep		Tatjana Maria
Quarterfinals out
Ajla Tomljanović	Amanda Anisimova	Marie Bouzková	Jule Niemeier
4th round out
Alizé Cornet	Petra Martić	Paula Badosa	Harmony Tan
Caroline Garcia	Elise Mertens	Jeļena Ostapenko	Heather Watson
3rd round out
Iga Świątek	Barbora Krejčíková	Zheng Qinwen	Jessica Pegula
Petra Kvitová	Magdalena Fręch	Coco Gauff	Katie Boulter (WC)
Alison Riske-Amritraj	Zhang Shuai	Angelique Kerber	Diane Parry
Maria Sakkari	Irina-Camelia Begu	Kaja Juvan	Lesia Tsurenko
2nd round out
Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove (LL)	Claire Liu	Catherine Harrison (Q)	Viktorija Golubic
Greet Minnen	Bianca Andreescu	Kristína Kučová	Harriet Dart
Irina Bara	Ana Bogdan	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	Kirsten Flipkens (PR)
Mihaela Buzărnescu	Lauren Davis	Sara Sorribes Tormo	Karolína Plíšková
Ann Li	Maja Chwalińska (Q)	Marta Kostyuk	Emma Raducanu
Magda Linette	Panna Udvardy	Mai Hontama (Q)	Katarzyna Kawa (Q)
Viktoriya Tomova	Sorana Cîrstea	Elisabetta Cocciaretto (PR)	Yanina Wickmayer (Q)
Wang Qiang	Dalma Gálfi	Anhelina Kalinina	Anett Kontaveit
1st round out
Jana Fett (Q)	Sonay Kartal (WC)	Nuria Parrizas-Diaz	Yulia Putintseva
Jil Teichmann	Arantxa Rus	Andrea Petković	Maryna Zanevska
Garbiñe Muguruza	Sloane Stephens	Emina Bektas (Q)	CoCo Vandeweghe (LL)
Shelby Rogers	Laura Pigossi	Rebeka Masarova	Donna Vekić
Louisa Chirico (Q)	Chloé Paquet	Dayana Yastremska	Jasmine Paolini
Camila Giorgi	Rebecca Peterson	Jaimee Fourlis (Q)	Karolína Muchová
Elena-Gabriela Ruse	Nastasja Schunk (Q)	Madison Brengle	Yuan Yue (LL)
Christina McHale (Q)	Serena Williams (WC)	Clara Burel	Tereza Martincová
Danielle Collins	Lucia Bronzetti	Kateřina Siniaková	Ylena In-Albon
Misaki Doi	Katie Swan (WC)	Yuriko Miyazaki (WC)	Alison Van Uytvanck
Kristina Mladenovic	Fernanda Contreras Gómez (Q)	Tamara Zidanšek	Camila Osorio
Kaia Kanepi	Clara Tauson	Rebecca Marino	Mirjam Björklund (Q)
Zoe Hives (Q)	Daria Saville (WC)	Astra Sharma (Q)	Aleksandra Krunić
Martina Trevisan	Ekaterine Gorgodze	Zhu Lin	Océane Dodin
Belinda Bencic	Tamara Korpatsch	Maddison Inglis (Q)	Beatriz Haddad Maia
Anna Bondár	Jodie Burrage (WC)	Wang Xiyu	Bernarda Pera

Events

Gentlemen's singles

• Novak Djokovic def. Nick Kyrgios, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6

Ladies' singles

• Elena Rybakina def. Ons Jabeur, 3–6, 6–2, 6–2

Gentlemen's doubles

• Matthew Ebden / Max Purcell def. Nikola Mektić / Mate Pavić, 7–6, 6–7, 4–6, 6–4, 7–6

Ladies' doubles

• Barbora Krejčíková / Kateřina Siniaková def. Elise Mertens / Zhang Shuai, 6–2, 6–4

Mixed doubles

• Neal Skupski / Desirae Krawczyk def. Matthew Ebden / Samantha Stosur, 6–4, 6–3

Wheelchair gentlemen's singles

• Shingo Kunieda def. Alfie Hewett, 4–6, 7–5, 7–6

Wheelchair ladies' singles

• Diede de Groot def. Yui Kamiji, 6–4, 6–2

Wheelchair quad singles

• Sam Schröder def. Niels Vink, 7–6, 6–1

Wheelchair gentlemen's doubles

• Gustavo Fernandez / Shingo Kunieda def. Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid, 6–3, 6–1

Wheelchair ladies' doubles

• Yui Kamiji / Dana Mathewson def. Diede de Groot / Aniek van Koot, 6–1, 7–5

Wheelchair quad doubles

• Sam Schröder / Niels Vink def. Andy Lapthorne / David Wagner, 6–7, 6–2, 6–3

Boys' singles

• Mili Poljičak def. Michael Zheng, 7–6, 7–6

Girls' singles

• Liv Hovde def. Luca Udvardy, 6–3, 6–4

Boys' doubles

• Sebastian Gorzny / Alex Michelsen def. Gabriel Debru / Paul Inchauspé, 7–6, 6–3

Girls' doubles

• Rose Marie Nijkamp / Angella Okutoyi def. Kayla Cross / Victoria Mboko, 3–6, 6–4,

Boys' 14&U singles

• Cho Se-hyuk def. Carel Aubriel Ngounoue, 7–6, 6–3

Girls' 14&U singles

• Alexia Ioana Tatu def. Andreea Diana Soare, 7–6, 6–4

Gentlemen's invitation doubles

• Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan def. Xavier Malisse / Marcos Baghdatis, 6–3, 6–4

Ladies' invitation doubles

• Kim Clijsters / Martina Hingis def. Daniela Hantuchová / Laura Robson, 6–4, 6–2

Mixed invitation doubles

• Nenad Zimonjić / Marion Bartoli def. Todd Woodbridge / Cara Black, 7–6, 6–1

Prize money

The Wimbledon Championships total prize money for 2022 is a record £40,350,000, an increase of 15.23% compared to 2021 and 6.18% vs 2019 when the event was last played with a full capacity crowd.

*per team

Controversy regarding the participation of Russian and Belarusian players

In April 2022, the AELTC announced that players representing Russia or Belarus would not be allowed to enter the upcoming Championships as a consequence of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, stating that "it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players", and citing guidance given by the British government. The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) also banned players representing Russia and Belarus from other tennis tournaments taking place in the UK. Outside of the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup, players from these countries were allowed to compete in other tournaments, including at the Grand Slam level at the year's French Open and US Open, as neutral players without national flags.

The ban attracted criticism from many players, including from defending and six-time champion Novak Djokovic, who described it as "crazy". Andrey Rublev, one of the players affected by the ban, accused the AELTC of making an "illogical" and "discriminatory" decision. Others, such as Ukrainians Marta Kostyuk and Sergiy Stakhovsky, came out in support of the ban. The three international governing bodies of tennis—the ATP, WTA, and ITF—criticised the decision, and on 20 May 2022 they stripped the tournament of its ranking points, on the bases that participation should be based on merit rather than nationality and that the unilateral decision by the AELTC contrasts with the remainder of the tour. This decision received criticism as well, with two-time men's singles champion Andy Murray commenting that the removal of ranking points will likely not affect participation in the event and has frustrated players.

The WTA and the ATP each levied $1 million in fines against the AELTC and the LTA as a consequence of the ban.

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External links

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