Get ready for Wimbledon 2024! The main draw ceremony for singles will take place on Friday, June 28th, at 10 pm local time (2:30 pm IST) in London. The doubles draw ceremony will follow at 12 pm local time (4:30 pm IST). This year’s Wimbledon tournament, held at the prestigious All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, will run from July 1st to July 14th.
The tournament promises exciting action, with a record prize money of 50 million pounds (Rs 533.65 crore), an increase of 11.9% or 5.3 million pounds compared to last year. The men’s and women’s singles winners will each receive a substantial 2.70 million pounds.
Defending champions Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz in men’s singles and Czechia’s Marketa Vondrousova in women’s singles will look to defend their titles. In men’s doubles, the British-Dutch pair of Neal Skupski and Wesley Koohlof will aim to repeat their victory, while in women’s doubles, the Taipei-Czech duo of Hsieu Su-wei and Barbora Strycova will be hoping for another triumphant run. Last year’s mixed doubles champions, the Croatian-Ukrainian pair of Mate Pavic and Lyudmyla Kichenok, will be seeking another title.
The wheelchair events will also be exciting to watch, with Japan’s Tokito Oda and the Netherlands’ Diede de Groot defending their men’s and women’s singles titles respectively. Dutchman Niels Vink will be defending his wheelchair quad singles title, while the British duo of Alfie Hewitt and Gordon Reid will be looking to win another wheelchair men’s doubles title. In women’s wheelchair doubles, de Groot and her compatriot Jiske Griffioen will be aiming for another victory. Vink and his compatriot Sam Schroeder will be competing for the wheelchair quad doubles title.
The junior events will also be full of promise, with Britain’s Henry Searle and USA’s Clervie Ngounoue defending their boys’ and girls’ singles titles respectively. The boys’ and girls’ doubles titles were won by the Czech-Italian pair of Jakub Filip and Gabriele Vulpitta and the all-Czech duo of Alena Kovačková and Laura Samsonová last year.
Don’t miss the Wimbledon 2024 draw ceremony, and get ready for an unforgettable tennis spectacle!
