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How to watch Wimbledon | The Independent

Wimbledon is again and the massive query forward of the Championships is whether or not anybody can cease Novak Djokovic from becoming a member of Roger Federer on a file eight males’s singles titles.

Djokovic has been in unstoppable kind within the grand slams this season and has now received a file 23 main titles after victories on the Australian Open and French Open this season.

The Serbian has received 4 Wimbledon titles in a row and defeated Nick Kyrgios in final yr’s closing to proceed his dominance on the grass courts of SW19.

Elena Rybakina is the defending champion within the girls’s singles after successful her first grand slam title in final yr’s closing towards Ons Jabeur.

Right here’s the whole lot you want to know forward of Wimbledon 2023.

How can I watch Wimbledon?

Wimbledon shall be proven on the BBC within the UK, with full protection of the match out there to watch on BBC One, BBC Two and throughout the BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport web site.

When is Wimbledon?

The Wimbledon foremost draw begins on Monday 3 July. The match runs for 2 weeks with the ladies’s singles closing happening on Saturday 15 July and the lads’s singles closing on Sunday 16 July.

Wimbledon qualifying shall be held from Monday 26 June to Thursday 29 June.

When is the Wimbledon draw?

The draw for the Wimbledon males’s and girls’s singles tournaments will happen on Friday 30 June at 10am BST.

The draw shall be carried out on the All England Membership.

What are the seeds for Wimbledon?

Seedings for Wimbledon have but to be introduced by the AELTC.

The AELTC used to use a grass courtroom seeding components to decide the seeding for Wimbledon, nevertheless that was discontinued forward of the Championships in 2021 and seedings now following the Tour rankings for each males’s and girls’s singles attracts.

What’s the prize cash?

The complete prize cash for this yr’s Wimbledon throughout the lads’s and girls’s singles tournaments is up to a file £32,154,000. It represents a rise of 10.9 per cent from 2022 and the overall quantity shall be break up equally throughout the lads’s and girls’s tournaments.

The winners of the lads’s and girls’s singles will take residence a file £2.35m, which is a rise of 17.5 per cent on what Novak Djokovic and Elena Rybakina received in 2022.

The runners-up are assured £1,175,000 for making the ultimate, whereas the prize cash for reaching the primary spherical of the match’s foremost draw stands at £55,000 – even for those who lose and exit the competitors with out successful a single match.

Wimbledon 2023 prize cash

Winner – £2,350,000

Runner-up – £1,175,000

Semi-Finalists – £600,000

Quarter-Finalists – £340,000

Fourth Spherical – £207,000

Third Spherical  – £131,000

Second Spherical – £85,000

First Spherical – £55,000

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