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Arévalo/
Ostapenkovs
Polmans/Hunter
Friday, July 10, 2026 · Final
Watch: ESPN+
My pick: Arévalo / Ostapenko to advance · locked 2026-07-07 16:00 UTCPrediction
A final between the mixed draw's biggest upset makers and its steadiest seeds. Polmans and Hunter own the headline result of the event — the takedown of the No. 1 seeds — and in Hunter they have a former doubles world No. 1 who returns the mixed court as well as anyone left. But Arévalo and Ostapenko pair a Grand Slam doubles champion's serve with a striker who takes the racquet out of opponents' hands, and they have barely been broken all fortnight. In a final a champions' tie-break can decide, I lean, narrowly, to the seeds: Arévalo and Ostapenko.
The case for Arévalo / Ostapenko
52% to winThe No. 2 seeds are the safer firepower bet: Arévalo is a Grand Slam doubles champion whose serve rarely gives, and Ostapenko ends points off the return like no one else in the draw. They have barely been broken all fortnight and came through an all-seeded semi-final; in a match-tie-break shoot-out, that combination of hold and strike is the percentage play.
The case for Polmans / Hunter
48% to winPolmans and Hunter carry the tournament's defining mixed result — beating the No. 1 seeds — and backed it up against Pavić and Stollár. Hunter, a former doubles world No. 1, is the most decorated returner on the court, and in a one-set-plus format the pair that manufactures the crucial break tends to win. Giant-killers with nothing left to prove and everything to swing at.
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.
The briefing
Storylines
- The No. 2 seeds Arévalo and Ostapenko against the unseeded Polmans and Hunter for the mixed-doubles title.
- Polmans and Hunter's run — over the No. 1 seeds and then Pavić and Stollár — is the story of the mixed draw; Hunter is a former doubles world No. 1.
- Arévalo and Ostapenko reached the final without being broken in a completed match, beating the No. 3 seeds Harrison and Zhang 6-3 5-7 6-4.
Injuries & withdrawals
| Both pairs | No injury or withdrawal concerns reported for any of the four ahead of the final. | 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.
Watch: No US linear window is posted for the mixed — every court streams on ESPN+, and a final is likely to land on a show court carried by ESPN or ESPN2. (ESPN, as of 2026-07-07)
Court & schedule: The mixed doubles final is scheduled for Friday 10 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 (final schedule not yet released), as of 2026-07-07)
Weather: The final sits at the end of a hot, dry London week — sunshine and highs in the low 30s°C (around 90°F), with negligible rain risk as the early-July heat holds. (Met Office All England Club forecast, as of 2026-07-07)
Venue: All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London — grass.
At this Stage
The mixed-doubles final the draw earned: its top surviving seeds against its giant-killers. Marcelo Arévalo and Jeļena Ostapenko, the No. 2 seeds, arrive as the pair that has barely been broken — through the seeded half and past the No. 3s Harrison and Zhang 6-3 5-7 6-4 in an all-seeded semi-final, Arévalo's serve and Ostapenko's return the through-line. Across the net stand Marc Polmans and Storm Hunter, unseeded and the story of this event: they took out the No. 1 seeds Vavassori and Errani, then beat Pavić and Stollár 7-6(5) 6-3 to reach the final, Hunter a former doubles world No. 1 reading the mixed court as well as anyone left. One pair holds the pedigree and the seeding; the other holds the tournament's biggest scalp. Whoever wins lifts the mixed-doubles trophy.
