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2024 Wimbledon Women’s Tournament Preview: Iga Swiatek, Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka lead line-up for third Grand Slam
The latest edition of the Wimbledon Championships heads to SW19 between July 1-14, 2024 with the women’s draw now complete and our preview looks ahead to the main protagonists with Marketa Vondrousova as the defending champion.
Vondrousova handed Ons Jabeur back to back final defeats with the Tunisian not succeeding in her bid not only to win the title but also to quit tennis to start a family as a result. She will hope to finally claim it and make it third times a charm.
Swiatek, Rybakina, Sabalenka and Gauff lead line-up
Iga Swiatek will lead the line-up for this year’s tournament albeit she has yet to get past the Quarter-Finals at the major despite being a junior champion previously at Wimbledon. She has yet to crack grass and will hope that this is her year.
But truth betold, there is no evidence either way on whether she has made those adjustments. She decided not to play at the Berlin Ladies Open which was a key warm-up for her ahead of Wimbledon after claiming yet another Roland Garros title. She also has a tough draw compared to a lot of her rivals. Sofia Kenin will start who dumped out Coco Gauff twelve months ago, while Yulia Putintseva then will likely await or Petra Martic. Katerina Siniakova then followed by Jelena Ostapenko who she has a horrific record against. She is the one player who can really tackle the weapons that Swiatek has and really rush her work with her big hitting