The 2024 Wimbledon Championships is the third major of the season, and the draw for the Ladies' singles competition was revealed.
The only grass-court Grand Slam tournament in the calendar will run from July 1st to 14th, and despite many injury issues surrounding the top favorites, it seems that all made it in time for the main draw.
Defending champion and last year's surprising winner, Marketa Vondrousova, was among players who were doubtful prior to the major at SW19 after she had a nasty fall at the Berlin Open.
Seemingly, the Czech player recovered in time, and she will enter her title defense as the sixth seed at the All England Club, starting against Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in the first round of the competition.
Another player who retired from her match in Berlin was Aryna Sabalenka. The Belarusian, too, recovered in time, and as the third seed, she will be one of the top favorites in London, playing against Emina Bektas in the first round.
Coco Gauff is the highest-ranked American on the WTA Tour, and she was very vocal about her ambitions this year. As the second seed, she will have a chance to prove that at Wimbledon, challenging Caroline Dolehide in her first match.
On the opposite side of the draw from the second-seeded American is the top seed of the tournament, the World No. 1 player, Iga Swiatek, who has yet to advance past the quarter-final at this major.
Grass is by far the Pole's weakest surface, but she will try to prove this year that she can succeed on the low-bouncing green surface, meeting fellow Grand Slam champion Sofia Kenin in the first round of the tournament.
Elena Rybakina is a former Wimbledon champion, and she will want to prove that her first major triumph was no fluke. In her first match, the Kazakshtani player will play against Elena-Gabriela Ruse.
There are also a few unseeded players in the draw who could go far. Chief among them is former world no. 1 and four-time major winner Naomi Osaka, who will challenge Diane Parry in the first round of the tournament.
Home crowd hero Emma Raducanu will also want to prove that her 2021 US Open win wasn't by mistake, as she had solid grass preparation, and at SW19, she will start against against the 22nd-seeded grass-court specialist Ekaterina Alexandrova.
2024 Wimbledon Championships Women's Draw:
| 1 | Iga Swiatek (1) |
| 2 | Sofia Kenin |
| 3 | Francesca Jones |
| 4 | Petra Martic |
| 5 | Yulia Putintseva |
| 6 | Angelique Kerber |
| 7 | Marina Stakusic |
| 8 | Katerina Siniakova (27) |
| 9 | Caroline Garcia (23) |
| 10 | Anna Blinkova |
| 11 | Bernarda Pera |
| 12 | Anastasia Potapova |
| 13 | Oceane Dodin |
| 14 | Daria Snigur |
| 15 | Ajla Tomljanovic |
| 16 | Jelena Ostapenko (13) |
| 17 | Danielle Collins (11) |
| 18 | Clara Tauson |
| 19 | Mayar Sherif |
| 20 | Dalma Galfi |
| 21 | Camila Osorio |
| 22 | Lauren Davis |
| 23 | Magdalena Frech |
| 24 | Beatriz Haddad Maia (20) |
| 25 | Barbora Krejcikova (31) |
| 26 | Veronika Kudermetova |
| 27 | Maria Lourdes Carle |
| 28 | Katie Volynets |
| 29 | Cristina Bucsa |
| 30 | Ana Bogdan |
| 31 | Jessica Bouzas Maneiro |
| 32 | Marketa Vondrousova (6) |
| 33 | Elena Rybakina (4) |
| 34 | Elena Gabriela Ruse |
| 35 | Laura Siegemund |
| 36 | Kateryna Baindl |
| 37 | Caroline Wozniacki |
| 38 | Alycia Parks |
| 39 | Lucia Bronzetti |
| 40 | Leylah Fernandez (30) |
| 41 | Anna Kalinskaya (17) |
| 42 | Panna Udvardy |
| 43 | Marie Bouzkova |
| 44 | Julia Riera |
| 45 | Anhelina Kalinina |
| 46 | Elina Avanesyan |
| 47 | Rebeka Masarova |
| 48 | Liudmila Samsonova (15) |
| 49 | Ons Jabeur (10) |
| 50 | Moyuka Uchijima |
| 51 | Robin Montgomery |
| 52 | Olivia Gadecki |
| 53 | Viktorija Golubic |
| 54 | Jule Niemeier |
| 55 | Magda Linette |
| 56 | Elina Svitolina (21) |
| 57 | Katie Boulter (32) |
| 58 | Tatjana Maria |
| 59 | Harriet Dart |
| 60 | Zhouxuan Bai |
| 61 | Xinyu Wang |
| 62 | Viktoriya Tomova |
| 63 | Ashlyn Krueger |
| 64 | Jessica Pegula (5) |
| 65 | Qinwen Zheng (8) |
| 66 | Lulu Sun |
| 67 | Alison Van Uytvanck |
| 68 | Yuliia Starodubtseva |
| 69 | Irina-Camelia Begu |
| 70 | Lin Zhu |
| 71 | Taylor Townsend |
| 72 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (25) |
| 73 | Ekaterina Alexandrova (22) |
| 74 | Emma Raducanu |
| 75 | Nao Hibino |
| 76 | Elise Mertens |
| 77 | Arantxa Rus |
| 78 | Yue Yuan |
| 79 | McCartney Kessler |
| 80 | Maria Sakkari (9) |
| 81 | Daria Kasatkina (14) |
| 82 | Shuai Zhang |
| 83 | Tamara Korpatsch |
| 84 | Yuriko Lily Miyazaki |
| 85 | Paula Badosa |
| 86 | Karolina Muchova |
| 87 | Brenda Fruhvirtova |
| 88 | Mirra Andreeva (24) |
| 89 | Dayana Yastremska (28) |
| 90 | Nadia Podoroska |
| 91 | Lesia Tsurenko |
| 92 | Varvara Gracheva |
| 93 | Donna Vekic |
| 94 | Xiyu Wang |
| 95 | Emina Bektas |
| 96 | Aryna Sabalenka (3) |
| 97 | Jasmine Paolini (7) |
| 98 | Sara Sorribes Tormo |
| 99 | Greet Minnen |
| 100 | Heather Watson |
| 101 | Bianca Andreescu |
| 102 | Jaqueline Cristian |
| 103 | Sara Errani |
| 104 | Linda Noskova (26) |
| 105 | Marta Kostyuk (18) |
| 106 | Rebecca Sramkova |
| 107 | Daria Saville |
| 108 | Peyton Stearns |
| 109 | Anna Karolina Schmiedlova |
| 110 | Yafan Wang |
| 111 | Martina Trevisan |
| 112 | Madison Keys (12) |
| 113 | Victoria Azarenka (16) |
| 114 | Sloane Stephens |
| 115 | Karolina Pliskova |
| 116 | Diana Shnaider |
| 117 | Naomi Osaka |
| 118 | Diane Parry |
| 119 | Qiang Wang |
| 120 | Emma Navarro (19) |
| 121 | Sorana Cirstea (29) |
| 122 | Sonay Kartal |
| 123 | Eva Lys |
| 124 | Clara Burel |
| 125 | Elisabetta Cocciaretto |
| 126 | Anca Todoni |
| 127 | Caroline Dolehide |
| 128 | Coco Gauff (2) |
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