Alexander Peya and
Nicole Melichar were the defending champions, but Peya could not participate
this year due to injury. Melichar played alongside Bruno Soares but lost in the
quarterfinals to Yang Zhaoxuan and Matwé Middelkoop.
Ivan Dodig and Latisha Chan won the title, defeating Robert Lindstedt
and Jeļena Ostapenko in the final, 6–2, 6–3.
This was the first Wimbledon to feature a final set tie-break.
The 2019
Wimbledon Championships took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet
Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom, beginning on 1st July and
finishing on 14th July 2019.
The defending Gentlemen's singles champion Novak Djokovic retained his
title, while the defending Ladies' singles champion Angelique Kerber lost in
the second round to Lauren Davis. Simona Halep won the Ladies' Singles title.
This was the first Grand Slam tournament where both singles titles were won by
players born in the Balkans.
This was the first edition
of the tournament to feature a standard tie break in the final set when the
score in the set was 12 games all. The winner was the first player or pair to
reach seven points whilst leading by two or more points or, in the case of a
6-6 point score, to establish a subsequent lead of two points. Henri Kontinen
and John Peers won the first such tie break played in Wimbledon history,
defeating Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in a third-round men's doubles match. In
men's singles, the only such match was the final in which Novak Djokovic
defeated Roger Federer, in what was also the longest final in tournament
history lasting for 4 hours and 58 minutes. Djokovic became the first man since
Bob Falkenburg at the 1948 Wimbledon Championships to win the title after being
championship points down, having saved two when down 7–8 in the fifth set. This
tournament also marked the retirement of former Australian Open finalist Marcos
Baghdatis, after he lost in the second round.
In the Women's Singles,
there were 16 qualifiers from 128 entrants, an increase from 12 qualifiers from
96 entrants. The change brought the qualification for the Women's Singles into
line with that for the Men's Singles, which remains unchanged. Simona Halep defeated Serena Williams in the
final, 6–2, 6–2 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 2019 Wimbledon
Championships. It took just 56 minutes for Halep to secure victory. In the entire tournament, she dropped only one
set against compatriot Mihaela Buzărnescu. Williams was attempting to equal
Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles for the third
time. At 37 years and 291 days, Williams became the oldest Grand Slam women's
singles finalist to compete since the start of the Open Era in 1968. 15-year
old Coco Gauff became the youngest player to win a main draw singles match at
Wimbledon since Jennifer Capriati in 1991, defeating the oldest player in the
main draw, Venus Williams at 39 in the first round.
All that a thing of the
past for – it is July and this year (2020) there is no Wimbledon. It is with great regret that the Main Board
of the All England Club (AELTC) and the Committee of Management of The
Championships decided that the Championships 2020 will be cancelled due to
public health concerns linked to the coronavirus epidemic. The 134th
Championships will instead be staged from 28 June to 11 July 2021. The committee stated that uppermost in mind
was the health and safety of all of
those who come together to make Wimbledon happen – the public in the UK and
visitors from around the world, players, guests, members, staff, volunteers,
partners, contractors, and local residents – as well as our broader
responsibility to society’s efforts to tackle this global challenge to our way
of life.
Following a series of
detailed deliberations, the Committee of
Management’s viewed that the cancellation of The Championships is the best
decision in the interests of public health – but read the following interesting
announcements too.
Members of
the public who paid for tickets in the Wimbledon Public Ballot for this year’s
Championships will have their tickets refunded and will be offered the chance
to purchase tickets for the same day and court for The Championships 2021.
In addition,
we have taken account of the impact that this decision will have on those who
rely on The Championships – including the players and the tennis community in
Britain and around the world – and we are developing plans to support those
groups, working in partnership with the LTA and the other leadership bodies in
global tennis. This also applies to our loyal staff, to whom we take our
responsibility very seriously.
Ian Hewitt,
AELTC Chairman, commented: “This is a decision that we have not taken lightly,
and we have done so with the highest regard for public health and the wellbeing
of all those who come together to make Wimbledon happen. It has weighed heavily
on our minds that the staging of The Championships has only been interrupted
previously by World Wars but, following thorough and extensive consideration of
all scenarios, we believe that it is a measure of this global crisis that it is
ultimately the right decision to cancel this year’s Championships, and instead
concentrate on how we can use the breadth of Wimbledon’s resources to help
those in our local communities and beyond. Our thoughts are with all those who
have been and continue to be affected by these unprecedented times.”
The all
significant news is Wimbledon gives out £10m in prize money... for a tournament
that isn't happening! Players are handed up to £25,000 each after SW19 chiefs'
pay-out from pandemic insurance. Wimbledon
may not have happened this year, but the players will still reap the dividend
of the tournament's foresight in maintaining its pandemic insurance. The All
England Club have marked what would have been men's semi-finals day by
unveiling a £10 million fund for players who have missed out on earning
anything for months. A total of 620 competitors will share the surprise bounty
with a financial lifeline being handed to those who would have played in the
qualifying event.
Those who would have played in the singles main draws will be given
£25,000 each, which is small change to the likes of Roger Federer and Serena
Williams. Their peers lower down the food chain will, however, hugely benefit
from the tournament's unexpected largesse, which sees £12,500 to those who
would have made qualifying event on ranking, and £6,250 to doubles players. This
is in addition to a host of donations to Coronavirus charities well in excess
of £1 million. There is also some unspecified money going to umpires and line
judges who would otherwise have been employed this past fortnight.
While the
pandemic insurance is still a long way off being fully processed, it is
expected to have saved Wimbledon more than £100 million by the time it is fully
totted up. The enabling of such generous measures are a reminder that, while it
can sometimes be easy to caricature Wimbledon, plain old school competence
should never go out of fashion.
Chief Executive Richard
Lewis said, 'We know these months of uncertainty have been very worrying for
these groups, including the players, many of whom have faced financial
difficulty during this period and who would have quite rightly anticipated the
opportunity to earn prize money at Wimbledon based on their world ranking. 'We are pleased that our insurance policy has
allowed us to recognise the impact of the cancellation on the players.'
Interesting ! ~ a
Wimbledon not happening yet payouts are !!
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
13.7.2020.
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