The 2021 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The 2021 Championships were the 134th edition, the 127th staging of the Ladies’ Singles Championship event, It was played on grass courts and is part of the ATP Tour.
Men’s Singles
Novak Djokovic defeated Matteo Berrettini in the final, 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 6–4, 6–3 to win men’s Singles tennis title at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. It was his title as two-time defending champion in quick succession and his sixth Wimbledon title and 20th major title overall, tying Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal’s all-time record total of men’s singles titles.
Women’s Singles
Ashleigh Barty defeated Karolína Plíšková in the final, 6–3, 6–7(4–7), 6–3 to win the Ladies’ Singles tennis title at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. She became the first Australian women’s champion at Wimbledon since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980, the first top seed to win the title since Serena Williams in 2016 and the first at any major since Simona Halep at the 2018 French Open. Barty’s victory made her the fourth player, following Ann Jones, Martina Hingis and Amélie Mauresmo, to win the women’s singles title after previously winning the girls’ singles title. She retained the WTA No. 1 singles ranking by reaching the semifinals, with Aryna Sabalenka having also been in contention for the top ranking. Halep was the reigning champion from when the tournament was last held in 2019, but she withdrew from the competition due to a calf injury. Williams retired from her first-round match against Aleksandra Sasnovich due to injury
Other champions are as follows
- Men’s Doubles: Nikola Mektić (croatia) / Mate Pavić Croatia) defeated. Marcel Granollers (Spain) / Horacio Zeballos (Argentina)), 6–4, 7–6(7–5), 2–6, 7–5
- Women’s Doubles: Hsieh Su-wei (Chinese Taipei) / Elise Mertens (Belgium) defeated Veronika Kudermetova (Russia) / Elena Vesnina (Russia), 3–6, 7–5, 9–7
- Mixed Doubles: Neal Skupski United Kingdom) / Desirae Krawczyk (United States) defeated Joe Salisbury (United Kingdom) / Harriet Dart (United Kingdom), 6–2, 7–6(7–1)
- Wheelchair Men’s Singles: Joachim Gérard (Belgium) defeated. Gordon Reid (United Kingdom), 6–2, 7–6(7–2)
- Wheelchair Women’s Singles: Diede de Groot (Netherlands) defeated Kgothatso Montjane (South Africa), 6–2, 6–2
- Boys’ Singles: Samir Banerjee United States) defeated Victor Lilov (United States), 7–5, 6–3
- Girls’ Singles: Ane Mintegi del Olmo (Spain)) defeated Nastasja Schunk (Germany), 2–6, 6–4, 6–1
- Boys’ Doubles: Edas Butvilas (Lithuania) / Alejandro Manzanera Pertusa (Spain) defeated Daniel Rincón (Spain) / Abedallah Shelbayh (Jordan), 6–3, 6–4
- Girls’ Doubles: Kristina Dmitruk (Belarus) / Diana Shnaider (Russia) defeated Sofia Costoulas (Belgium) / Laura Hietaranta (Finland), 6–1, 6–2
What is Grand Slam?
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in the same calendar year, also referred to as the “Calendar-year Grand Slam” or “Calendar Slam”. In doubles, a team may accomplish the Grand Slam playing together or a player may achieve it with different partners. Winning all four major championships consecutively but not within the same calendar year is referred to as a non-calendar-year Grand Slam, while winning the four majors at any point during the course of a career is known as a Career Grand Slam. The four Grand Slam tournaments are the Australian Open in January, the French Open from late May to early June, Wimbledon in late June to early July, and the US Open in August–September, with each played over two weeks. The Australian and the United States tournaments are played on hard courts, the French on clay, and Wimbledon on grass. Wimbledon is the oldest tournament, founded in 1877, followed by the US in 1881, the French in 1891, and the Australian in 1905, but they were not all officially designated majors until 1925.
What is ATP tour?
The ATP Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is ITF Men’s World Tennis Tour. The equivalent women’s organisation is the WTA Tour.