2013 Wimbledon Championships

Centre Court, where the Finals of Wimbledon take place

The 2013 Wimbledon Championships was the 127th edition of the tournament and was held at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London.

The tournament was an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2013 ATP World Tour and the 2013 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event.[4]

There were singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which was part of the Grade A category of tournaments, and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the NEC tour under the Grand Slam category. The tournament was played on grass courts and was taking place over a series of 19 courts, including the four main showcourts, Centre Court, No. 1 Court, No. 2 Court and No. 3 Court.[5]

Sergiy Stakhovsky caused an upset in the second round by defeating seven-time champion Roger Federer

Sabine Lisicki caused one of the biggest upsets of the tournament by defeating reigning Wimbledon, US Open and French Open champion, world number one, Serena Williams, in the fourth round

• Rafael Nadal suffered his first ever opening round defeat at a Grand Slam tournament when he lost to Steve Darcis in the first round. This also marked the first time since 1997 in which the reigning French Open men's champion lost in the first round at Wimbledon.[6] Women's fifth seed Sara Errani also made a first round exit, losing to Monica Puig in straight sets.
• By defeating Benjamin Becker in the first round, Andy Murray won his 107th Grand Slam match, thus becoming the most successful British man at a Major and breaking Fred Perry's total Grand Slam match win record of 106.[7]
• The 2013 championship saw numerous players retire in the first two rounds due to fatigue or injury, including Marin Čilić, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Victoria Azarenka, John Isner, and first round surprise Steve Darcis. On Wednesday, 26 June a total of eight players, including seven in singles events, withdrew from the tournament; four of those made the decision before the starts of their matches.
• Third-ranked Roger Federer fell in the second round to world number 116 Sergiy Stakhovsky, his first loss in a Grand Slam earlier than the quarterfinals since 2004 French Open, a streak spanning 36 majors. Federer's world ranking dropped to No. 5 as a result of this early exit.[8]
• Federer's second round loss also marked the worst collective performance by him and Rafael Nadal at a Grand Slam tournament, in which both men were entered.[9] This also marked the first time since 2002 in which neither man made the Wimbledon final.[10]
• For the first time since 1912, no U.S. man was represented in the third round at Wimbledon, following Bobby Reynolds's second round defeat to World No. 1 Novak Djokovic.[11]
• Kimiko Date-Krumm became the oldest woman to reach the third round at Wimbledon, by defeating Alexandra Cadanțu in the second round. It was also the first time since the 1996 Wimbledon Championships in which she had gone this far. Her opponent, number one seed Serena Williams, combined for an age of 73, and this was their first ever meeting.[12] Date-Krumm lost in straight sets in the late evening encounter on Saturday 29 June 2013.
• Of the top ten women's seeds that started the Championships, six fell before the third round: second seed Victoria Azarenka (second round, withdrew), third seed Maria Sharapova (second round), fifth seed Sara Errani (first round), seventh seed Angelique Kerber (second round), ninth seed Caroline Wozniacki (second round) and tenth seed Maria Kirilenko (first round). This marked the worst performance by any top ten seeds at a Grand Slam tournament in the Open Era.[13]
• Laura Robson became the first British woman in 15 years to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon; by getting this far, she entered the Top 30 for the first time in her career. She thus became the first British woman since Jo Durie in 1987 to enter the WTA's Top 30.[14]
• Łukasz Kubot and Fernando Verdasco both reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon for the first time,[15] whilst Juan Martín del Potro reached his first Grand Slam semi-final since winning the 2009 US Open.[16]
• Sloane Stephens and Kirsten Flipkens both reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon for the first time.[17]
• Sabine Lisicki continued her record of beating the reigning French Open champion at Wimbledon. She defeated Serena Williams in the fourth round, having also beaten Svetlana Kuznetsova in 2009, Li Na in 2011 and Maria Sharapova in 2012.[18] Lisicki's victory also denied Serena her 35th consecutive victory, a record which was achieved by her older sister, Venus, in 2000.[19]
• This tournament marked the worst collective performance by Williams, Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova at a Grand Slam event since the 2008 French Open,[19] and also the first tournament since the 2011 French Open in which none of the three reached a Grand Slam final.[20]
• Jerzy Janowicz became the first male Polish player to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament.[21]
• By reaching the Wimbledon final, Sabine Lisicki became the first German Grand Slam singles finalist since Rainer Schüttler reached the final of the 2003 Australian Open, and the first German singles finalist at Wimbledon since Steffi Graf in 1999.[20]
• Novak Djokovic won his semi-final match against Juan Martín del Potro in five sets in 4 hours 44 minutes. This was the longest semi-final in the history of the Wimbledon Championships.[22]
• With her win in the Ladies' Singles final, Marion Bartoli surpassed the female record set by Jana Novotná at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships for most appearances in a Grand Slam tournament before winning a title, with 47.[23]
• In winning the Gentlemen's Doubles, Bob and Mike Bryan became the first men's doubles team in the Open era to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time, as well as the only team in history to hold all four Majors and the Olympic gold medal.[24]
• Andy Murray defeated Novak Djokovic in the final in straight sets to win the 2013 Wimbledon Men Singles title, becoming the first British man in 77 years to do so, and the first Scot of either sex in 117 years to win a Wimbledon singles title.

Men's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Andy Murray [2]		Novak Djokovic [1]
Semifinals out
Juan Martín del Potro [8]		Jerzy Janowicz [24]
Quarterfinals out
Tomáš Berdych [7]	David Ferrer [4]	Łukasz Kubot	Fernando Verdasco
4th round out
Tommy Haas [13]	Bernard Tomic	Ivan Dodig	Andreas Seppi [23]
Adrian Mannarino	Jürgen Melzer	Kenny de Schepper	Mikhail Youzhny [20]
3rd round out
Jérémy Chardy [28]	Feliciano López	Richard Gasquet [9]	Kevin Anderson [27]
Alexandr Dolgopolov [26]	Igor Sijsling	Kei Nishikori [12]	Grega Žemlja
Benoît Paire [25]	Dustin Brown (Q)	Nicolás Almagro [15]	Sergiy Stakhovsky
Ernests Gulbis	Juan Mónaco [22]	Viktor Troicki	Tommy Robredo [32]
2nd round out
Bobby Reynolds (Q)	Jan-Lennard Struff (Q)	Paul-Henri Mathieu	Jimmy Wang (Q)
Go Soeda (Q)	James Blake	Michał Przysiężny (Q)	Daniel Brands
Roberto Bautista Agut	Santiago Giraldo	Milos Raonic [17]	Denis Kudla (Q)
Leonardo Mayer	Michaël Llodra	Grigor Dimitrov [29]	Jesse Levine
Steve Darcis	Stéphane Robert (Q)	John Isner [18]	Lleyton Hewitt
Guillaume Rufin	Radek Štěpánek	Julian Reister (Q)	Roger Federer [3]
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [6]	Julien Benneteau [31]	Rajeev Ram	Marin Čilić [10]
Andrey Kuznetsov	Vasek Pospisil	Nicolas Mahut (WC)	Lu Yen-hsun
1st round out
Florian Mayer	Steve Johnson (WC)	Blaž Kavčič	Ryan Harrison
Gilles Simon [19]	Ričardas Berankis	Wayne Odesnik (Q)	Dmitry Tursunov
Marcel Granollers	Andreas Haider-Maurer	Thiemo de Bakker	Sam Querrey [21]
Olivier Rochus (LL)	Philipp Petzschner	Daniel Gimeno Traver	Martin Kližan
Martín Alund	Teymuraz Gabashvili (Q)	Horacio Zeballos	Gastão Elias
Carlos Berlocq	Alex Kuznetsov (Q)	James Duckworth (Q)	Philipp Kohlschreiber [16]
Matthew Ebden (WC)	Aljaž Bedene	Jarkko Nieminen	Denis Istomin
Simone Bolelli	Michael Russell	Guido Pella	Albert Ramos Viñolas
Rafael Nadal [5]	Igor Andreev	Alejandro Falla	Adrian Ungur
Evgeny Donskoy	Pablo Andújar	Guillermo García López	Stan Wawrinka [11]
Jürgen Zopp	Marinko Matosevic	Matt Reid (Q)	Kyle Edmund (WC)
Fabio Fognini [30]	Lukáš Rosol	Rogério Dutra Silva	Victor Hănescu
David Goffin	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Xavier Malisse	Tobias Kamke
Bastian Knittel (Q)	Lukáš Lacko	Paolo Lorenzi	Marcos Baghdatis
Janko Tipsarević [14]	Albert Montañés	Marc Gicquel	Robin Haase
Alex Bogomolov Jr.	Jan Hájek	James Ward (WC)	Benjamin Becker

Women's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Marion Bartoli [15]		Sabine Lisicki [23]
Semifinals out
Agnieszka Radwańska [4]		Kirsten Flipkens [20]
Quarterfinals out
Kaia Kanepi	Li Na [6]	Sloane Stephens [17]	Petra Kvitová [8]
4th round out
Serena Williams [1]	Laura Robson	Tsvetana Pironkova	Roberta Vinci [11]
Monica Puig	Karin Knapp	Carla Suárez Navarro [19]	Flavia Pennetta
3rd round out
Kimiko Date-Krumm	Samantha Stosur [14]	Marina Erakovic	Alison Riske (WC)
Madison Keys	Petra Martić	Dominika Cibulková [18]	Klára Zakopalová [32]
Eva Birnerová (Q)	Petra Cetkovská (Q)	Camila Giorgi	Michelle Larcher de Brito (Q)
Ekaterina Makarova [25]	Eugenie Bouchard	Vesna Dolonc	Alizé Cornet [29]
2nd round out
Caroline Garcia (Q)	Alexandra Cadanțu	Elena Vesnina	Olga Puchkova
Mariana Duque Mariño (Q)	Peng Shuai [24]	Urszula Radwańska	Angelique Kerber [7]
Mathilde Johansson	Mona Barthel [30]	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová (Q)	Karolína Plíšková
Jana Čepelová	María Teresa Torró Flor	Annika Beck	Simona Halep
Sílvia Soler Espinosa	Lesia Tsurenko	Andrea Petkovic (WC)	Caroline Wozniacki [9]
Christina McHale	Sorana Cîrstea [22]	Lucie Šafářová [27]	Maria Sharapova [3]
Yaroslava Shvedova	Garbiñe Muguruza	Mirjana Lučić-Baroni	Ana Ivanovic [12]
Jelena Janković [16]	Bojana Jovanovski	Hsieh Su-wei	Victoria Azarenka [2]
1st round out
Mandy Minella	Zheng Jie	Carina Witthöft (Q)	Tamira Paszek [28]
Francesca Schiavone	Andrea Hlaváčková	Arantxa Rus	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (LL)
Maria Kirilenko [10]	Julia Görges	Ayumi Morita	Anabel Medina Garrigues
Romina Oprandi [31]	Mallory Burdette	Tara Moore (WC)	Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Yvonne Meusburger (Q)	Tímea Babos	Heather Watson	Monica Niculescu
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [21]	Magdaléna Rybáriková	Anna Tatishvili	Nadia Petrova [13]
Chanelle Scheepers	Kristýna Plíšková	Irina-Camelia Begu	Maria Elena Camerin (Q)
Daniela Hantuchová	Nina Bratchikova	Olga Govortsova	Michaëlla Krajicek (PR)
Sara Errani [5]	Misaki Doi	Lara Arruabarrena	Varvara Lepchenko [26]
Jamie Hampton	Pauline Parmentier	Donna Vekić	Estrella Cabeza Candela
Elina Svitolina	Alexa Glatch	Samantha Murray (WC)	Stefanie Vögele
Lauren Davis	Lucie Hradecká (WC)	Melanie Oudin	Kristina Mladenovic
CoCo Vandeweghe	Kiki Bertens	Anne Keothavong (WC)	Johanna Larsson
Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Sofia Arvidsson	Galina Voskoboeva (Q)	Virginie Razzano (Q)
Johanna Konta (WC)	Yanina Wickmayer	Ajla Tomljanović (Q)	Yulia Putintseva
Vania King (LL)	Tatjana Maria	Elena Baltacha (WC)	Maria João Koehler

The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seeds based on ATP and WTA rankings are as of 17 June 2013 and the rankings and points are as of 24 June 2013.

Men's singles

The Men's singles seeds is arranged on a surface-based system to reflect more accurately the individual player's grass court achievement as per the following formula, which applies to the top 32 players, according to ATP ranking on 17 June 2013:

• Take Entry System Position (ESP) points at 17 June 2013
• Add 100% points earned for all grass court tournaments in the past 12 months (18 June 2012 – 16 June 2013).
• Add 75% points earned for best grass court tournament in the 12 months before that (13 June 2011 – 17 June 2012)

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Novak Djokovic	11,830	720	1,200	12,310	Runner-up, lost to Andy Murray [2]
2	2	Andy Murray	8,560	1,200	2,000	9,360	Champion, defeated Novak Djokovic [1]
3	3	Roger Federer	7,740	2,000	45	5,785	Second round lost to Sergiy Stakhovsky
4	4	David Ferrer	7,220	360	360	7,220	Quarterfinals lost to Juan Martín del Potro [8]
5	5	Rafael Nadal	6,895	45	10	6,860	First round lost to Steve Darcis
6	7	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	4,155	720	45	3,480	Second round retired vs Ernests Gulbis
7	6	Tomáš Berdych	4,515	10	360	4,865	Quarterfinals lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
8	8	Juan Martín del Potro	3,960	180	720	4,500	Semifinals lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
9	9	Richard Gasquet	3,135	180	90	3,045	Third round lost to Bernard Tomic
10	12	Marin Čilić	2,470	180	45	2,335	Second round withdrew vs Kenny de Schepper
11	10	Stan Wawrinka	2,915	10	10	2,915	First round lost to Lleyton Hewitt
12	11	Kei Nishikori	2,495	90	90	2,495	Third round lost to Andreas Seppi [23]
13	13	Tommy Haas	2,425	0	180	2,605	Fourth round lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
14	14	Janko Tipsarević	2,390	90	10	2,310	First round lost to Viktor Troicki
15	16	Nicolás Almagro	2,195	90	90	2,195	Third round lost to Jerzy Janowicz [24]
16	18	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1,885	360	10	1,535	First round retired against Ivan Dodig
17	15	Milos Raonic	2,225	45	45	2,225	Second round lost to Igor Sijsling
18	21	John Isner	1,735	10	45	1,770	Second round retired vs Adrian Mannarino
19	17	Gilles Simon	2,090	45	10	2,055	First round lost to Feliciano López
20	26	Mikhail Youzhny	1,415	360	180	1,235	Fourth round lost to Andy Murray [2]
21	19	Sam Querrey	1,810	90	10	1,730	First round lost to Bernard Tomic
22	20	Juan Mónaco	1,740	90	90	1,740	Third round lost to Kenny de Schepper
23	28	Andreas Seppi	1,380	10	180	1,550	Fourth round lost to Juan Martín del Potro [8]
24	22	Jerzy Janowicz	1,549	115	720	2,154	Semifinals lost to Andy Murray [2]
25	27	Benoît Paire	1,380	90	90	1,380	Third round lost to Łukasz Kubot
26	24	Alexandr Dolgopolov	1,500	45	90	1,545	Third round lost to David Ferrer [4]
27	23	Kevin Anderson	1,510	10	90	1,590	Third round lost to Tomáš Berdych [7]
28	25	Jérémy Chardy	1,441	45	90	1,486	Third round lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
29	31	Grigor Dimitrov	1,330	45	45	1,330	Second round lost to Grega Žemlja
30	30	Fabio Fognini	1,345	45	10	1,310	First round lost to Jürgen Melzer
31	33	Julien Benneteau	1,200	90	45	1,155	Second round lost to Fernando Verdasco
32	29	Tommy Robredo	1,355	(80)†	90	1,365	Third round lost to Andy Murray [2]

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2012. Accordingly, it is the defending points from the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour instead.

Women's singles

For the Women's singles seeds, the seeding order follows the ranking list, except where in the opinion of the committee, the grass court credentials of a particular player necessitates a change in the interest of achieving a balanced draw.

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Serena Williams	13,615	2,000	280	11,895	Fourth round lost to Sabine Lisicki [23]
2	2	Victoria Azarenka	9,625	900	100	8,825	Second round withdrew due to knee injury
3	3	Maria Sharapova	9,415	280	100	9,235	Second round lost to Michelle Larcher de Brito (Q)
4	4	Agnieszka Radwańska	6,465	1,400	900	5,965	Semifinals lost to Sabine Lisicki [23]
5	5	Sara Errani	5,335	160	5	5,180	First round lost to Monica Puig
6	6	Li Na	5,155	100	500	5,555	Quarterfinals lost to Agnieszka Radwańska [4]
7	7	Angelique Kerber	4,770	900	100	3,970	Second round lost to Kaia Kanepi
8	8	Petra Kvitová	4,435	500	500	4,435	Quarterfinals lost to Kirsten Flipkens [20]
9	9	Caroline Wozniacki	3,565	5	100	3,660	Second round lost to Petra Cetkovská (Q)
10	10	Maria Kirilenko	3,471	500	5	2,976	First round lost to Laura Robson
11	11	Roberta Vinci	3,060	280	280	3,060	Fourth round lost to Li Na [6]
12	12	Ana Ivanovic	2,920	280	100	2,740	Second round lost to Eugenie Bouchard
13	13	Nadia Petrova	2,660	160	5	2,505	First round lost to Karolína Plíšková
14	14	Samantha Stosur	2,905	100	160	2,965	Third round lost to Sabine Lisicki [23]
15	15	Marion Bartoli	2,775	100	2,000	4,675	Champion, defeated Sabine Lisicki [23]
16	16	Jelena Janković	2,830	5	100	2,925	Second round lost to Vesna Dolonc
17	17	Sloane Stephens	2,530	160	500	2,870	Quarterfinals lost to Marion Bartoli [15]
18	19	Dominika Cibulková	2,140	5	160	2,295	Third round lost to Roberta Vinci [11]
19	18	Carla Suárez Navarro	2,165	5	280	2,440	Fourth round lost to Petra Kvitová [8]
20	20	Kirsten Flipkens	2,038	(32)†	900	2,906	Semifinals lost to Marion Bartoli [15]
21	21	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1,900	100	5	1,805	First round lost to Tsvetana Pironkova
22	23	Sorana Cîrstea	1,760	160	100	1,700	Second round lost to Camila Giorgi
23	24	Sabine Lisicki	1,750	500	1,400	2,650	Runner-up, lost to Marion Bartoli [15]
24	26	Peng Shuai	1,685	280	100	1,505	Second round lost to Marina Erakovic
25	27	Ekaterina Makarova	1,682	100	160	1,742	Third round lost to Petra Kvitová [8]
26	29	Varvara Lepchenko	1,566	160	5	1,411	First round lost to Eva Birnerová [Q]
27	30	Lucie Šafářová	1,560	5	100	1,655	Second round lost to Karin Knapp
28	57	Tamira Paszek	1,083	500	5	588	First round lost to Alexandra Cadanțu
29	31	Alizé Cornet	1,545	100	160	1,605	Third round lost to Flavia Pennetta
30	33	Mona Barthel	1,500	5	100	1,595	Second round lost to Madison Keys
31	34	Romina Oprandi	1,490	100	5	1,395	First round retired against Alison Riske [WC]
32	43	Klára Zakopalová	1,300	160	160	1,300	Third round lost to Li Na [6]

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2012. Accordingly, points for her 16th best result are deducted instead.

The following player would have been seeded, but she withdrew from the event.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
28	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1,662	5	1,657	Abdominal strain

The following players received wild cards into the main draw senior events.[43]

Below are the lists of the qualifiers entering in the main draws.

The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries or personal reasons.

Before the tournament

During the tournament

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