Inside the numbers of the top 16 candidates

The seeds have been announced for Wimbledon, which begins next week on Monday, July 3. After her Roland Garros win, four-time Slam champion Iga Swiatek is the top seed for a sixth major, followed by reigning Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka and defending champion Elena Rybakina.

Since 2021, Wimbledon seeding has followed the Hologic WTA Tour rankings. No unseeded player has ever won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon. In fact, only four unseeded players have ever reached the women’s final.

Here are the numbers behind the top 16 seeds. The main draw ceremony will take place on Friday 30 June.

1. Every Swiatek
2023 Record: 35-6
2023 titles: 3 (Doha, Stuttgart, Roland Garros)
Career Grass Record: 6-5
Best grass result: Round of 16, 2021 Wimbledon
2022 Wimbledon: Third Round (l. Cornet)

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Notable stats: Swiatek is already a four-time major champion and has reached the semifinals or better in three of the four majors. She has not yet progressed past the Round of 16 at Wimbledon.

2. Aryna Sabalenka
Record in 2023: 35-7
2023 titles: 3 (Adelaide 1, Australian Open, Madrid)
Career grass record: 22-15
Best grass result: Semi-final, Wimbledon 2021
2022 Wimbledon: DNP

Notable stats: Sabalenka has reached the semifinals or better at the last three Slams. It is the longest active streak on tour.

3. Elena Rybakina
Record in 2023: 31-8
2023 titles: 2 (Indian Wells, Rome)
Career Grass Record: 19-7
Best grass result: Champion, 2022 Wimbledon
2022 Wimbledon: Champion

Notable stats: Rybakina is 3-0 this season against No. 1 Swiatek and 1-1 against No. 2 Sabalenka. She is bidding to become the first woman to defend the title at Wimbledon since Serena Williams in 2016.

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4. Jessica Pegula
2023 Record: 29-10
2023 titles: 0
Career Grass Record: 6-7
Best grass result: Third round, 2022 Wimbledon
2022 Wimbledon: Third round (l. Martic)

Notable stat: Pegula is playing in just her fourth Wimbledon main draw. After losing in the first round of his Wimbledon debut in 2019, the 29-year-old American has gone one round better with each appearance.

5. Caroline Garcia
Record in 2023: 23.-13
2023 titles: 0
Career Grass Record: 39-21
Best grass result: 3 titles (2016 Mallorca, 2019 Nottingham, 2022, Bad Homburg)
Wimbledon 2022: round of 16 (l. Bouzkova)

Notable stat: This time last year, Garcia was ranked outside the Top 50.

6. Our Jabeur
2023 Record: 15-8
2023 titles: 1 (Charleston)
Career Grass record: 27.-11
Best grass result: Finalist, Wimbledon 2022
2022 Wimbledon: Finalist

Notable stat: Two of Jabeur’s four career titles have come on grass. She won the first title of her career in Birmingham in 2021.

7. Coco Gauff
2023 Record: 24-10
2023 titles: 1 (Auckland)
Career Grass Record: 13-6
Best grass result: Round of 16, 2019 and 2021 Wimbledon
2022 Wimbledon: Third round (l. Anisimova)

Notable statistics: Among the top 10 players, only Elena Rybakina (90.9%) and Petra Kvitova (74.5%) have a higher winning percentage at Wimbledon than Gauff (72.7%).

8. Maria Sakkari
2023 Record: 24.-13
2023 titles: 0
Career grass record: 22-17
Best grass result: Semi-finalist, 2023 & 2022 Berlin
2022 Wimbledon: Third Round (v. Maria)

Notable stat: Entering this week, Sakkari is the only player in the Top 10 to reach the semifinals or better on all three surfaces this season.

9. Petra Kvitova
2023 Record: 22-7
2023 titles: 2 (Miami, Berlin)
Career grass record: 71-22
Best grass result: Champion, 2011 & 2014 Wimbledon
2022 Wimbledon: Third Round (l. Badosa)

Notable stat: En route to her sixth grass-court title last week in Berlin, Kvitova defeated No. 5 Caroline Garcia. It was her first Top 10 win on grass since the 2011 Wimbledon final.

10. Barbora Krejcikova
Record in 2023: 23.-11
2023 titles: 1 (Dubai)
Career Grass Record: 9-4
Best grass result: Round of 16, 2021 Wimbledon
2022 Wimbledon: Third round (l. Tomljanovic)

Notable stats: Krejcikova, a two-time Wimbledon doubles champion, secured her victories with Katerina Siniakova in 2018 and 2022.

11. Daria Kasatkina
2023 Record: 15-14
2023 titles: 0
Career grass record: 21.-14
Best grass result: Quarter-finalist, Wimbledon 2018
2022 Wimbledon: DNP

Notable stats: Only one of Kasatkina’s six titles has come on natural surfaces (2017 Charleston), but Roland Garros and Wimbledon are the only Slams where she has reached the quarterfinals or better.

12. Veronika Kudermetova
2023 Record: 24.-13
2023 titles: 0
Career Grass Record: 18.-10
Best grass result: Finalist, 2023 s’Hertogenbosch
2022 Wimbledon: DNP

Notable stats: Kudermetova has played six quarterfinals on grass courts – four in s’Hertogenbosch and two in Berlin.

13. Beatriz Haddad Maia
2023 Record: 21-12
2023 titles: 0
Career Grass Record: 14-6
Best grass result: Champion, 2022 Nottingham, 2022 Birmingham
2022 Wimbledon: First round (l. Juvan)

Notable stat: After making her first career Slam semifinal at Roland Garros, Haddad Maia became the first Brazilian woman to reach the top 10 of the WTA rankings.

14. Belinda Bencic
2023 Record: 20-7
2023 titles: 2 (Adelaide 2, Abu Dhabi)
Career Grass Record: 43-21
Best grass result: Champion, 2015 Eastbourne
2022 Wimbledon: First Round (l. Zhang Qinwen)

Notable stats: In addition to his title run at Eastbourne in 2015, Bencic is a former junior Wimbledon champion and three-time finalist at s’Hertogenbosch.

15. Lyudmila Samsonova
2023 Record: 14-14
2023 titles: 0
Career Grass Record: 11-7
Best grass result: Champion, 2021 Berlin
2022 Wimbledon: DNP

Notable statistics: Samsonova had a breakthrough result on grass. Ranked No. 108 in 2012, she stormed through the draw in Berlin as a qualifier, defeating Marketa Vondrousova, Veronika Kudermetova, Madison Keys, Victoria Azarenka and Belinda Bencic to win her first Hologic WTA Tour title.

16. Karolina Muchova
2023 Record: 25-9
2023 titles: 0
Career grass record: 8-6
Best grass result: Quarter-finalist, 2019 & 2021 Wimbledon
2022 Wimbledon: First round (l. Halep)

Notable stat: Muchova made her first major final earlier this month at Roland Garros, but Wimbledon has been the Czech’s most consistently successful Slam. In her three main appearances, she reached the quarter-finals twice. It is still the only Slam where she has reached more than one quarter-final.

Statistics and information do not include this week’s results in Eastbourne and Bad Homburg.

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