The three tune-ups end Sunday. Wimbledon begins Monday. The week has produced the usual mix of pre-Slam noise: Frances Tiafoe withdrew from Mallorca with a back issue before his opener, Taylor Fritz withdrew from defending his Eastbourne title with a soft-tissue knock, Iga Świątek lost in Bad Homburg R3 to Emma Navarro 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 on her grass debut of the season. Jack Draper, returning from injury, made his first SF of 2026 at Eastbourne in straight sets across all three rounds.
The Wimbledon draw arrived Friday. Sinner top seed defending. Zverev No. 2 as the new RG champion. Alcaraz out (wrist). Sabalenka the WTA No. 1, Rybakina at 2, Świątek defending at 3. Serena Williams in the women's draw on a singles wildcard, her first Slam appearance since 2022.
Mallorca Championships (ATP 250)
Round | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
QF | Davidovich Fokina d. Dimitrov | 6-3, 6-3 |
Eastbourne Open (ATP 250)
Round | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
QF | Draper d. Diallo | 6-1, 6-4 |
Bad Homburg Open (WTA 500)
Round | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
R3 | Navarro d. Świątek [1] | 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 |
QF | Wang Xinyu d. Fernandez | 6-3, 6-4 |
Draper's three straight-set wins at Eastbourne are his first match-and-a-half-load on grass since the wrist injury in April. The Wimbledon expectations restart this weekend.
Davidovich Fokina's 73-minute Mallorca QF over Dimitrov puts the Spaniard into his first grass SF.
Tiafoe's Mallorca withdrawal was a low back issue. Wimbledon is the question.
Fritz's Eastbourne withdrawal was a small leg issue. He had been the defending champion and the form favourite.
Naomi Osaka into the Bad Homburg SFs, her first 500-level SF of 2026.
Elina Svitolina withdrew before her Bad Homburg QF with a right hip injury.
Elena-Gabriela Ruse into the Bad Homburg SFs, having taken out Noskova, Kalinskaya, and Navarro back to back.
Serena Williams on a Bad Homburg doubles wildcard with Eala won her R1 in straight sets.
Wimbledon men's seeds 1–10: Sinner, Zverev, Auger-Aliassime, Shelton, de Minaur, Fritz, Djokovic, Medvedev, Cobolli, Tiafoe.
Wimbledon women's seeds 1–10: Sabalenka, Rybakina, Świątek, Pegula, Andreeva, Anisimova, Gauff, Svitolina, Noskova, Muchova.
🎯 PICK 1 · JANNIK SINNER · To win Wimbledon
The defending champion. Alcaraz absent. Form rebuilt since Paris. The trophy is the trophy.
🎯 PICK 2 · ARYNA SABALENKA · To win Wimbledon
The No. 1 seed at the Slam she has been chasing for two years. The Berlin SF was the form check; the rebuild from the Paris presser is complete.
🎯 PICK 3 · MIRRA ANDREEVA · To reach the SF
The new RG champion with a draw section that does not put her opposite Sabalenka or Świątek before R4. The grass form is unknown; the level is not.
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Wimbledon begins Monday. It is, in tennis, the only event that is referred to in shorthand by its postcode. The grass at the All England Club has been cut to eight millimetres since Tuesday. The Championship roof closes nightly. The whites rule, the ivy, the curtsey-that-no-longer-exists, the strawberries-and-cream price (now £2.70, frozen at it since 2010), the Royal Box, the queue that begins at dawn. It is the tournament that, more than any other, the audience and the players approach as a religious occasion.
The 2026 edition arrives with the most coverage-heavy first round of the post-Federer era. Sinner defends as the No. 1 seed with the 2025 trophy and a 30-match Slam-only winning streak still intact. Zverev arrives as the new Roland Garros champion. Alcaraz is out and the bracket is open at the top, which means a Slam quarterfinal slot is on offer for the first time in three years to a player who has never been in a Slam SF. Sabalenka and Rybakina lead a women's draw with Świątek defending and Andreeva, the new RG champion, seeded fifth. Serena Williams, on a singles wildcard, will play her first Slam main-draw match since the 2022 US Open.
The Roland Garros bracket, three weeks ago, opened up so wide that it produced a Chwalinska women's final and a Cobolli men's final. The grass swing has produced surprise winners at every event since. The Wimbledon bracket, by its history, generally has not done this. The temple resists chaos. Five names have won the last twenty-one men's titles. Six names have won the last twenty women's. The form curves through Halle, Queen's, and Berlin suggest that this Wimbledon may be the year the temple is the one that produces the next chapter rather than the next confirmation. It begins Monday at 11am UK time on the outside courts. Centre at 1.30.
Davidovich Fokina defeats Dimitrov at Mallorca 2026 – Quarter-Final
The Spaniard's first grass SF; 73 minutes to dispatch the Bulgarian veteran.
Draper's fashion faux pas in the heat... but Briton marches into Eastbourne SFs!
The Eastbourne SF berth in straights; first SF of the season after injury return.
Navarro knocks out top seed Swiatek in Bad Homburg
The American's three-set R3 takedown of the four-time RG champion.
Mallorca · Eastbourne · Bad Homburg all finish Sunday.
Wimbledon · June 29 – July 12 · Grand Slam · Outdoor grass · All England Club, London
Main draw begins Monday at 11am UK on the outside courts; Centre Court at 1.30. Sinner opens his defence. Sabalenka opens her chase. Serena Williams in the singles draw on a wildcard. Two weeks of strawberries, whites, and the only tennis event the world watches whether or not it has cable.