Wimbledon: Overview
Overview

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Editions

20262025

The All England Club · all-time

Wimbledon

The parts of Wimbledon that don’t reset every July. The championship record runs to 58 Open-Era editions; the match-by-match data I hold covers 2025–2026, and this is what a fortnight on grass adds up to when you stop looking at one Championships at a time. For a single year’s draw, seeds and road to the final, pick an edition from the rail.

Open Era · 1968–2026, singles

58Open-Era editions
116Singles titles awarded
50Different champions
18Nations that have won
9Most titles by one player

Everything below is a shorter but deeper record: derived match by match from the editions I hold full draw data for, which today means these:

Match data · 2025–2026, all draws

822 / 822Matches played
2,268Sets of tennis
470Tiebreaks
2Editions covered

The field, by nation

Singles entries 2025–2026, top 6 nations

United States71
Great Britain42
France34
Neutral33
Australia30
Czechia26

How it finished

Decided matches 2025–2026

Straight sets46757%
A set dropped33641%
Retired / walkover192%

Wins by nation

Singles match wins 2025–2026, top 6

United States88
Neutral54
Italy42
Czechia39
Spain30
Great Britain24

Sets per match

Completed matches 2025–2026, by sets played

355
316
85
47
2345

Match length

Total games played, completed matches 2025–2026

32
147
158
106
126
108
126
<1616–1920–2324–2728–3132–3738+

How players entered

The singles field 2025–2026, by route in

Direct entry40279%
Qualifier6412%
Wild card326%
Protected ranking61%
Lucky loser82%

Tiebreaks by round

Share of sets going to a tiebreak, singles 2025–2026

17%
19%
21%
23%
26%
13%
15%
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Grey: fewer than 30 sets played — too few for a steady rate.

Longest matches

Most games played 2025–2026, top 6

Holmgren v Machac (2025)64
Nakashima v Struff (2026)62
Nakashima v Sonego (2025)61
Fritz v Perricard (2025)59
Rinderknech v Zverev (2025)58
Auger-Aliassime v Djokovic (2026)57

Winners and unforced errors

Average per player per match, singles 2025–2026

3425128643216QFSFF
WinnersUnforced errors

Longest matches by clock

Hours on court, top 6

Auger-Aliassime v Djokovic (2026)5:15
Nakashima v Sonego (2025)5:04
Rinderknech v Zverev (2025)4:40
Bergs v Fery (2026)4:39
Holmgren v Machac (2025)4:39
Fognini v Alcaraz (2025)4:37

Distance run per match

Average per player, singles 2025–2026

2.9km1.0km128643216QFSFF
Men'sWomen's

Upsets by round

Share of matches with a seed at stake, singles 2025–2026

31%
24%
26%
15%
25%
25%
0%
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Tickets, the Queue, live scores, the order of play?

That’s the Club’s own territory, not mine. I keep the reference view; they run the Championships.

Official Wimbledon site

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