2021 Wimbledon Championships
The 2021 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 Simona Halep are the defending singles champions from when the tournament was last held in 2019.
Following the cancellation of the 2020 tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the main tournament is due to begin on Monday 28 June 2021 and finish on Sunday 11 July 2021. The 2021 Championships will be the 134th edition, the 127th staging of the Ladies' Singles Championship event,[1] the 53rd in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. It is to be played on grass courts and is part of the ATP Tour, the WTA Tour, the ITF Junior Circuit and the Uniqlo Tour. The tournament is organised by the All England Lawn Tennis Club and International Tennis Federation.
Tournament
The 2021 Wimbledon Championships will be the 134th edition of the tournament and will be held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. Depending on the public health situation in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Championships will be held at either full crowd capacity, reduced crowd capacity, or without a crowd.[2]
The tournament will be run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and will be included in the 2021 ATP Tour and the 2021 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament will consist 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 will be also 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 as part of the Uniqlo Tour under the Grand Slam category, also hosting singles and doubles events for wheelchair quad tennis for the first time.[3]
The tournament will be played only on grass courts; main draw matches will be played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon. Qualifying matches will be played, from Monday 21 June to Friday 25 June 2021, at the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton. The Tennis Sub-Committee will meet to decide wild card entries on 14 June.
The gentlemen's seedings formula used since 2002 will not be used. Seedings will instead use the standard system based on ATP Rankings.[4]
Events
Men's Singles
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Women's Singles
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Men's Doubles
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Women's Doubles
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Mixed Doubles
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Wheelchair Men's Singles
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Wheelchair Women's Singles
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Wheelchair Quad Singles
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Wheelchair Men's Doubles
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Wheelchair Women's Doubles
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Wheelchair Quad Doubles
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Boys' Singles
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Girls' Singles
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Boys' Doubles
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Girls' Doubles
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Point distribution and prize money
As a Grand Slam tournament, the points for Wimbledon are the highest of all ATP and WTA tournaments.[5] These points determine the world ATP and WTA rankings for men's and women's competition, respectively. Due to the smaller draws and the pandemic, all men's and women's doubles players that made it past the first round received half the points of their singles counterparts, a change from previous years where singles and doubles players received the same number of points in all but the first two rounds. In both singles and doubles, women received slightly higher point totals compared to their male counterparts at each round of the tournament, except for the first and last.[5][6] Points and rankings for the wheelchair events fall under the jurisdiction of the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour, which also places Grand Slams as the highest classification.[7]
The ATP and WTA rankings were both altered in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] Both rankings were frozen on 16 March 2020 upon the suspension of both tours, and as a result the traditional 52-week ranking system was extended to cover the period from March 2019 to March 2021 with a player's best 18 results in that time period factoring into their point totals.
- For the ATP, in March 2021, the ATP extended the "best of" logic to their rankings through to the week of 9 August 2021. Players will count either their 2021 points or 50% of their 2019 points, whichever is greater.[9]
- For the WTA, their 2019 points will drop off at 2021 edition.[10]
Point distribution
Below is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament.
Senior points
| 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 |
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| Men's Doubles | 0 | — | — | 0 | ||||||||
| Women's Singles | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 70 | 10 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 2 | |
| Women's Doubles | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
Wheelchair points
| Event | W | F | 3rd | 4th |
| Singles | 800 | 500 | 375 | 100 |
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| Doubles | 800 | 500 | 100 | — |
Junior points
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys' Singles | 1000 | 600 | 370 | 200 | 100 | 45 | 30 | 20 |
| Girls' Singles | ||||||||
| Boys' Doubles | 750 | 450 | 275 | 150 | 75 | — | — | — |
| Girls' Doubles | — | — | — |
Prize money
The Wimbledon Championships total prize money for 2021 decreased by 7.85% to £35,016,000. However, the prize money figure does not include the substantial investment required to provide quality accommodation for the players, or to create a minimised risk environment and comprehensive testing programme.[11]
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 1281 | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | £1,700,000 | £900,000 | £465,000 | £300,000 | £181,000 | £115,000 | £75,000 | £48,000 | £25,500 | £15,500 | £8,500 |
| Doubles * | £480,000 | £240,000 | £120,000 | £60,000 | £30,000 | £19,000 | £12,000 | — | — | — | — |
| Mixed Doubles * | £100,000 | £50,000 | £25,000 | £12,000 | £6,000 | £3,000 | £1,500 | — | — | — | — |
| Wheelchair Singles | £48,000 | £24,000 | £16,500 | £11,500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wheelchair Doubles * | £20,000 | £10,000 | £6,000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Quad Singles | £48,000 | £24,000 | £16,500 | £11,500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Quad Doubles * | £20,000 | £10,000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
*per team
Other entry information
Wild card entries
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References
- ^ "Announcements for The Championships 2018". Wimbledon. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ^ "Update on the Championships 2021 and Contributions to COVID-19 Response". Retrieved 16 February 2021.
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- ^ "Wimbledon to give out £10m prize money for 2020 Championships". BBC Sport. 10 July 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- ^ a b Chase, Chris (August 6, 2018). "Why tennis rankings change so frequently but still get it right". For The Win. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
- ^ "US Open 2020 Prize Money & Points breakdown with $39.000.000 on offer". Tennis Up-to-Date. 13 September 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour Rankings". ITF Tennis. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
- ^ "WTA Announces Ranking System Adjustments". Women's Tennis Association. 25 March 2021. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
- ^ "FedEx ATP Rankings COVID-19 Adjustments FAQ". ATP. 3 March 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
- ^ "The WTA has announced adjustments to the WTA Ranking system". WTA. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
- ^ "Wimbledon Prize Money 2021". 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.