WIMBLEDON 2026

serena returns

fritz/draper rd 1

So in the tank for the opening Williams match.

aaaaaand draper has pulled out

Sinner has lost a set, seems to be having some issues..

Sinner is really fucking cold rn. Too many UEs. Hopefully he can struggle through.

"A difficult man to knock off balance" - BBC commentator fatshaming Kecmanovic.

Sinner is going to have to come back from 2-1

He was 3-0 in that TB then skanked a couple..

Amazing. This is just not looking good..

Finally Sinner breaks with a little help from Kecmanovic..

Ok he came through in five sets too lol

Wu takes a set off Djoko. I'm sure Novak will overcome, but his days of cruising until the quarters or semis are over.

That blazer, wtf

Recommend Paolini-Montgomery rn

Yeah, I really enjoy Paolini's style

Thanks, have switched it on

Going back to rewatch that first set

Switched over to see one of our remaining Brits (Wendelken) slugging it out, but the English 'lads' in the crowd are making it hard for me not to root for his French opponent instead.

Swiatek struggling a bit in this second set

Yup, bizarre really

Townsend-Swiatek is warming up. Long time fan of Taylor T, her defeat of Halep at USO a few years back was one of the great net-rushing performances. World class doubles player now.

I've only ever seen TT in doubles, but she's really warming up now, as you say!

I love Taylor Townsend to bits and am so happy that she has broken through on the doubles side

Loving this, Iga must be pretty rattled now.

...or perhaps not, still that was a lot of fun to watch.

Swiatek gets through, but a lot to tears..

Shelton pushed to a 5th set in his first match. Impressed that Virtanen came back to win the 4th after losing 2nd and 3rd.

Virtanen giving Shelton loads of problems.

8-8 on the 5th set TB

Virtanen does it!! 11-9

Wow! Even came back from 8-5 in the tiebreak. Great playing by Virtanen.

always liked virtanen, disappointing for ben

Humbert-Bergs 1st round! That’s a rough draw for both, they were Eastbourne finalists two days ago and both inside top 40.

Be interested to see if Tiafoe avoids the Halle curse later (which is: win that and your name isn’t Federer = r1 loss in SW19).

This Wawrinks Berettini match..

Bah Stan :-(

It's been a journey..

crying along with stan over here. wow.

Last time I watched an 18-16 t/b in its entirety at this event, Shia LeBoeuf wasn't even born.

Serena's comeback attempt after 4 years away is now over I see. She won a set at least.

beaten 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3 by an opponent less than half her age, 20-year-old Maya Joint of Australia, in the opening round of Wimbledon.

Watched most of the Serena match. She needs actual match play to get her timing and movement back to a state that would be competitive at a high-level, but her ballstriking was really, really good. She's in better physical shape than she was in her last 2 or 3 years in the tour... If she were to make a serious go of a comeback, this match suggests she could be at least "Hingis' first un-retirement" level competitive and get herself into the second week of a major or two.

Watched Learner Tien earlier and seemed like he self destructed to me

Won the first set, broke early then played the most pathetic of games to hand the break back to Fucsovics, who when I checked back later won in four

Sabalenka got away with having to go to a 3rd set against Kessler.

Sinner better today against Borges who is tricky..looks like he is getting into full match fitness.

Be interested to see if Tiafoe avoids the Halle curse later (which is: win that and your name isn’t Federer = r1 loss in SW19).

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 30 June 2026 bookmarkflaglink

Tiafoe has done it

Gauff is in a 3rd set against Sierra, who seems to be up and coming..

And Sierra breaks in the middle of that set. Gauff on the brink.

Sierra to serve for the match

And her inexperience showed. Broken back

Gauff wins on the breaker!

Krejcikova Andreeva is going to the wire

Krejcikova played such beautiful slices to see it through

Andreeva threw her racket in disgust lol

Kostyuk Blinkova is brutal rn. Match

Kostyuk eventually gets through.

Another heavy breather (Anisimova) also through against Kenin on a last set TB

Getting a first look at Fils who has just won a 3rd set against Berrettini

Noskova is struggling now

The lack of experience is really, really showing in a way I never quite expected.

Until that service game I thought she was made of iron

Noskova faces 3 bps but held on...let's see if that sets things right for her

Great comeback by Noskova.

Noskova breaks...but surely a way to go yet xp yeah amazing really

Noskova held on after facing a BP.

3-0..

Noskova looking very good again.

Yup, 5-2.

Muchova to make Noskova serve for it again..

So, again, Noskova to serve for the title

30-15, Noskova did incredible there. Looks like she will do it

30-15, Noskova did incredible there. Looks like she will do it

2 CPs

Won it.

She's done it. That's a lot of heart and mind.

Feared the worst at one point but turned out to be a proper final

Third Czech woman to win Wimbledon in four years.

That's like inverse Novotna really.

Hope Muchova can win a major but this is the brutality of sport. Might be her last chance xp

Yeah, it's not life-changing if you come from that kind of money. Career-changing, for a little bit, yes.
I assume there's a decent number of talented low-to-middle-income-family kids in the LTA junior grant programme and likely 95% of them just can't travel/play independently once they're too old for that.
Hard to call Fery a "British success story" (or Norrie) if you're looking for any kind of structural involvement in his development from UK-based orgs. It's family wealth + American collegiate system.

Career-wise maybe he's this year's Vladimir Voltchkov. Or Jason Stoltenberg, if he's lucky. Aslan Karatsev at a pinch.
The comeback wins over Bergs and Dimitrov were great, mind. And Cobolli didn't do his homework.

― Michael Jones, Saturday, 11 July 2026 bookmarkflaglink

Noskova's dad worked in the railways, is what I heard..

She's from a little village, middle of nowhere really.

Zverev is playing well. Was 0-30 in a game, but Sinner put in the serves.

*mean Zverev put some pressure on a Sinner game.

Zverev faced a BP but served really well after Sinner skanked it. 4-4

6-6, 6-6 tb..

Zverev did it, 9-7...the first break in serve on that TB. That was something

Sinner not on his game.

I think Zverev's serving and FH (as oposed to his good BH) has been very, very good.

With only one break of serve in a TB separating them.

Now another TB..

Sinner nearly made that lob for 5-0.

It's 4-1

Yeah that was brilliantly played from Sinner. Really got hold of those Zverev first serves..one set all

Sinner was 0-30 and should've broken.

Still, this final is finally going in the right direction

Amazing, Zverev had a BP on the Sinner serve and slipped in that rally. Commentary think he hyper extended his knee and he was moving with slight restrictions...

Anyway Sinner gets out of his serve and breaks Zverev the next. Now serving for the 3rd set.

Sinner is close now..

Zverev v much moving fine again. On serve.

2 bps Sinner, really earning it here

Saved them 😡

One more BP and does it, FH dtl

Serving for it

15-30 Zverev and he is working the crowd..

What a rally Sinner, tremendous play the net for CP!!

Might have been going out but Zverev didn't leave it

And then does it with a crushed FH!

Good final.

This is the bit I dread, I wish it could go on for another fortnight.

The French Open win has unlocked an extra step. He will probably be more dangerous for the next couple of years and may bag one more..

As for Sinner yay. Really like him and he is so good and reliable against the bad guys.

Yeah his consistency is really something. Zverev is in top form, very little room for error. Good job Sinner!

Love Sinner's movement (all that sliding is insane lol) and the variety he has added to his weight of shot. Probably can improve all round by another 5%. Served monstrously too.

The world waits for Alcaraz. Hope he can come back to his best so we can see these two in a final again xp

Two really good finals. Men’s didn’t quite have the tension and jeopardy of the women’s but I’ve never seen AZ better. Sinner really has those skiers’ ankles, eh? I don’t know how he can walk after some of those slides and falls.

Odd that AELTC have basically committed themselves to playing any 5th set of a men’s final indoors with this time shift. Unless the first four sets are super quick.

One minor note on Saturday’s match: Noskova really got away with all those abortive ball tosses. Not sure if this is a feature of her play. Her (ex-)pal down the other end didn’t complain but it’s a real sidestep of the shot clock.

i dont play enough tennis to know, but would making it a fault to abandon a ball toss be too severe a punishment?
also my memory may be playing tricks but wimbledon used to fit the tournament into 2 weeks back in the 80s and 90s with no roof and no final set tie breaks but now seem to have a centre court match under the roof beyond 9pm most days. i dont get it, are the matches really so much longer now?

Apparently, yes (25% longer since 1999), but still doesn't quite explain it. There was no play on middle Sunday either, and men's doubles was best-of-five every round - plus start of play on Centre + No. 1 used to be 2pm.

The abandoned toss thing - maybe you can have five before a warning? Give the umps a bit more to do now that they never need to overrule a line call.

I suppose one explanation could be: they will now start the third match of the day on a show court, regardless of how late they're running, because they have the roof.
In the old days, if it got to 7:30pm or so with match #2 still going, match #3 would be shifted to another court or pulled for the day.
Feel like there was more WS-MS-WS scheduling too, rather than MS-WS-MS.