Wimbledon Championships
The 2022 Wimbledon Championships is a planned Grand Slam tennis tournament that is scheduled to take place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Novak Djokovic and Ashleigh Barty are the reigning champions in the singles tournaments, but Barty will not defend her title, as she retired from professional tennis in March 2022.[1]
Tournament
The tournament will be played on grass courts, with all main draw matches scheduled to be 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.[2] Qualifying matches are scheduled from 20 June to 23 June 2022 at the Bank of England Sports Ground in Roehampton.
The 2022 Championships will be 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 is to be run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and to be 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 is scheduled to consist of men’s (singles and doubles), women’s (singles and doubles), mixed doubles, boys’ (under 18 – singles and doubles), girls’ (under 18 – singles and doubles), which will also be 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 will also mark 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 will be 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.[3]