Tennis

Every Wimbledon main draw has 128 players in each singles event, but not all of them got there the same way. Most earn direct entry through their world ranking, and a handful receive wildcards, but a select group has to fight its way in through one of tennis’s toughest tests: the Wimbledon Qualifying Competition. Held … Read more

When people talk about Wimbledon prize money, they usually mean the eye-watering singles cheques: the 2026 singles champions each bank a record 3.6 million pounds. But Wimbledon also rewards its doubles specialists, and while the figures are smaller than singles, winning a doubles title at the All England Club still comes with a serious payday, … Read more

Every year when the Wimbledon draw is released, you hear talk of “seeds”: the number one seed, the top seeds, unseeded dark horses. But what exactly is a seed, how are they decided, and why does Wimbledon have such a famously unusual history with seeding? For a tournament steeped in tradition, the way it ranks … Read more

Every June, Wimbledon delivers drama on its famous grass courts, but no match in the tournament’s long history compares to what happened on Court 18 in 2010. Over three days, American John Isner and French qualifier Nicolas Mahut played the longest tennis match ever, an 11-hour, 5-minute marathon that shattered records, broke the scoreboard, and … Read more

The story of Wimbledon prize money is really the story of professional tennis itself: its explosive commercial growth, the long fight for equal pay between men and women, and the All England Club’s modern push to reward players at every level. A champion’s cheque has risen from 2,000 pounds in 1968 to 3.6 million in … Read more