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Arévalo / Ostapenko vs Harrison / Zhang — 6-3 5-7 6-4
 Arévalo/ Ostapenko✓ | 6 | 5 | 6 |
 Harrison/ Zhang | 3 | 7 | 4 |
Final · Tuesday, July 7, 2026 · Semi-finals
Result
Arévalo / Ostapenko 6-3 5-7 6-4 over Harrison / Zhang — the No. 2 seeds win the all-seeded semi-final in three and reach the mixed final against Polmans / Hunter.
Arévalo / OstapenkoStats: Official wimbledon.com match statistics (IBM) · as of 2026-07-07
Rows the source hadn’t published are left off rather than guessed.
At this Stage
The seeds' half held its order. The No. 2 seeds Marcelo Arévalo and Jeļena Ostapenko came through the all-seeded semi-final, beating the No. 3s Christian Harrison and Zhang Shuai 6-3 5-7 6-4 on No.2 Court — taking the first, surrendering the second, then breaking clear in the decider. It was the firepower call: Ostapenko's return and Arévalo's serve, the pairing that had barely been broken all fortnight, outlasting a Harrison–Zhang team that had itself come from a set down to reach the last four. Arévalo and Ostapenko advance to the final against the unseeded Marc Polmans and Storm Hunter, the pair that knocked out the No. 1 seeds — the tournament's giant-killers against its top surviving seeds for the title.
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
What we know now
Court: The mixed doubles semi-finals are scheduled across 8–9 July. The exact court and start time are set when the All England Club publishes the order of play the evening before
Match length: 2:00
Watch: ESPN+
What I said beforehand
The preview, frozen before the first serve. Clearly dated, never rewritten — that's the deal that makes the pick worth anything.
The seeds' half of the mixed draw comes down to the No. 2s against the No. 3s. Harrison and Zhang have looked the more assured on serve, and their quarter-final win over Salisbury and Fernandez — from a set down — shows they can outlast a heavyweight pair. But Arévalo and Ostapenko pair one of the game's best mixed servers with a striker who takes the racquet out of opponents' hands on the return, and they've dropped serve rarely all week. In a format decided by a champions' tie-break, I'll back the bigger hitters: Arévalo and Ostapenko, just.
The case for Arévalo / Ostapenko
55% to winThe No. 2 seeds pair an elite mixed server in Arévalo with a ball-striker in Ostapenko who can end points off the return; they've barely been broken this fortnight, and in a match-tie-break shoot-out that firepower is the safer bet.
The case for Harrison / Zhang
45% to winHarrison and Zhang are the form pair on serve and have already beaten a marquee team from a set behind, in the quarter-final — the kind of resilience that wins a one-set-plus-tie-break semi-final.
Both cases written 2026-07-07, before the first ball — frozen into the record exactly as written, whatever the result. The percentages are mine, quoted to a decimal because false precision is funnier — and tennis has no draw to hide the rounding in.
My locked pick: Arévalo / Ostapenko to advance ✓ RIGHT
“In a match-tie-break shoot-out the bigger hitters are the safer bet; the No. 2 seeds, just, over the No. 3s.”
Locked 2026-07-07 02:30 UTC — rendered verbatim from the pick ledger; never a fresher, hedged version
Storylines
- The top two seeds standing meet a round early: the No. 2 Arévalo–Ostapenko against the No. 3 Harrison–Zhang.
- Harrison and Zhang came from a set down to reach the last four; Arévalo and Ostapenko have yet to drop a completed match on serve.
Injuries & withdrawals
| Both pairs | No injury or withdrawal concerns reported for any of the four — no withdrawals posted against this tie. | AELTC order of play (no withdrawals posted) and tour coverage · 2026-07-07 |
Injury news drifts hourly in tournament week — every row carries its source and date for exactly that reason.
Court & schedule: The mixed doubles semi-finals are scheduled across 8–9 July. The exact court and start time are set when the All England Club publishes the order of play the evening before. (All England Club order of play (semi-final schedule not yet released), as of 2026-07-06)
Weather: The semi-final window sits in a hot, dry London spell — sunshine and low-to-mid-30s°C heat, negligible rain risk, with the week peaking near 35°C on Thursday. (Met Office All England Club forecast, as of 2026-07-07)
Venue: All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London — grass.