Serb Novak Djokovic and Spaniard Rafael Nadal topped the list of contenders for the English Wimbledon title, which starts on Tuesday in the third Grand Slam tennis tournament, without eight -time champion Roger Federer, and the distribution of his points are suspended. due to the ban of the organizers on the participation of Russian and Belarusian players in connection with the invasion of Ukraine.

Djokovic is looking for a seventh title on the green lawn of the All England Club, the equivalent of American great Pete Sampras.
He started his title defense campaign against South Korea’s Kwon Sung-Woo and he is likely to face rising Spanish star Carlos Alcaraz in the quarter-finals.
Nadal, who boosted his record at Roland Garros by winning his 14th clay league title and thus increasing his major title wins to 23, is in the midst of winning four titles a year in first time. more than half a century.
Nadal will need to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in the quarter-finals, knowing the Canadian got him in five sets in this year’s Roland Garros quarter-finals.

Professionals and professional associations have decided to suspend the issuance of points to contestants.

Political winds swirled in this episode even before the first broadcast aired on Monday.
The decision to ban Belarusian footballers and players came in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which means the involvement of Russian Daniil Medvedev, world number one, or his compatriot Andrei Rublev, number eight, would be impossible.
In response to the decision of the Wimbledon organizers, the professional associations DTP and WTA decided to suspend the issuance of points to tournament participants.
For the first time since it was founded in 1999, aside from the canceled 2020 championship due to the coronavirus, the 40-year-old Federer was unable to achieve the prestigious championship due to recovery from knee surgery.
German runner-up Alexander Zverev is also out after suffering a serious ankle ligament injury in the semi-final of Roland Garros against Nadal.
But Wimbledon was not a favorite field for Medvedev or Zverev, as they did not advance to his fourth round.
Thus, Djokovic, the owner of 20 major championships, and Nadal became the leaders of the tournament, which means that the expected match between them is the number sixty, which will only go to the final.
Serena and the women’s greatest victory After dropping to 1204 in the WTA rankings and not playing singles in 12 months, American tennis legend Serena Williams arrives at Wimbledon, her third Grand Slam, and is looking to achieve perhaps the biggest success of his career. . career.

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The seven-time English champion is trying to end the long wait for her 24th Grand Slam title to match the record set by Australia’s Margaret Court.
It is rare to have expectations that are so high for an American who could be the first unranked woman to win Wimbledon.
Nearly three months before her 41st birthday, Serena has not played a professional singles match since quitting the first round of Wimbledon last year due to an injury against Belarusian Aleksandra Sasnovich.
Sasnovich will miss Wimbledon due to the fact that Russian and Belarusian players have been banned from participating due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but somehow he will see one of his wishes come true for the American champion.
Serena has won 23 Grand Slam titles since winning her seventh Australian Open in 2017 while pregnant.
He has already lost four Grand Slam finals and finished second in the US and Wimbledon in 2018 and 2019, so Kurt’s success still can’t be felt.
Serena will face Frenchwoman Armoni Tan, who is ranked 113th in the world in the first round.