Wimbledon Women’s Singles Preview – CopyBet
The women’s draw at Wimbledon has thrown up plenty of surprises in recent seasons. There has been a different champion in each of the last eight years, suggesting that it can often pay to go against the grain at the All England Club.
To many the men’s competition may look like a two-horse race between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, but the women’s grass-court Grand Slam is far less conclusive and cases can be made for plenty of contenders.
World number one Aryna Sabalenka heads the betting but she has yet to make a Wimbledon final while fellow leading lights Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek have done little in recent years to suggest that they can translate their best form onto grass.
Tip 1: The last two women’s Wimbledon titles have gone the way of players from the Czech Republic and 2023 champion Marketa Vondrousova spearheads another strong challenge from that nation at the All England Club.
Injuries have seriously hampered the progress of Vondrousova since her Wimbledon success but there were hints in her run to the third round of the French Open earlier this month that she was rediscovering peak form.
That is how it transpired in her Wimbledon preparation event in Berlin last week as she took that grass-court title, doing so with high-profile successes over Madison Keys, Diana Shnaider, Ons Jabeur and world number one Sabalenka.
This surface clearly brings out the best in the 25-year-old and, although the world number 73 is unseeded, she has plenty of class and is a top-10 performer when in the groove.
Sabalenka could lie in wait in round three but Vondrousova outclassed her 6-2 6-4 in the Berlin semi-final recently and is one of the few players on the WTA Tour who can match the Belarusian’s power.
From then on the draw would open up kindly for the former world number six, who was also a finalist at the French Open in 2019, and make her a leading title contender.
Tip 2: It would be dangerous to underestimate Jasmine Paolini, who was runner-up to Barbora Krejcikova at Wimbledon last season after reaching another Grand Slam final at the French Open.
The world number four is a big-tournament player and that was evident when she captured the WTA Rome title in May, beating Coco Gauff in the final to land the best win of her career.
Grass allows Paolini to utilise her speed and aggression and a run to the semi-final in Bad Homburg recently was the perfect preparation for a tilt at the Wimbledon title.
The second quarter of the draw also looks a nice place to be as her toughest tests before the quarter-final are likely to stem from Linda Noskova and Amanda Anisimova.
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