View Profile has been dealt a quarter full of fellow Grand Slam champions in her quest to lift a first Wimbledon trophy.
The No.1 seed is currently on a 19-match winning streak after claiming her fourth Roland Garros title. For the second time this year, she will open a Grand Slam tournament with a rematch of her 2020 French Open final against Sofia Kenin
View Profile . Swiatek defeated Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open titlist, in the first round of Melbourne this January as well.
Swiatek could also face 2018 Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber in the third round, and is projected to face 2017 Roland Garros winner Jelena Ostapenko
View Profile in the fourth round. She has yet to defeat Ostapenko in four attempts. In the quarterfinals, Swiatek is slated to meet defending champion and No.6 seed Marketa Vondrousova
Click here to view the full draw. Here's a breakdown of what to look out for in each quarter.
First quarter
Swiatek, who has not played on grass this year yet, has landed in a section full of significant foes -- but they also face their own hurdles. Kerber opens against freshly crowned Birmingham champion Yulia Putintseva
Health issues have continued to plague Rybakina recently. The Kazakhstani retired from her Berlin quarterfinal last week due to stomach pain, and subsequently withdrew from Eastbourne. She faces a variety of challenges as she seeks to find her groove: powerful qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse
View Profile -- the latter two of whom face each other in a contrasting first round.
If Rybakina navigates past all of that, a strong grass-courter could await in the last 16 -- potentially 's-Hertogenbosch champion and No.15 seed Liudmila Samsonova
Two-time Australian Open champion Sabalenka's path could rival Swiatek's for pitfalls as she bids to go beyond the semifinals at SW19 for the first time. After an opener against Emina Bektas
View Profile , Sabalenka -- who retired from her Berlin quarterfinal last week due to a shoulder injury -- could face Donna Vekic
View Profile in the second round. Vekic has reached four tour finals on grass, and holds a 6-2 head-to-head lead over Sabalenka, including a 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-0 victory in Dubai this year.
A year ago, Andreeva charmed Wimbledon as she carved her way to the fourth round as a 16-year-old qualifier making her tournament debut. Now, she's seeded at a Grand Slam for the first time, having upset Sabalenka at Roland Garros to become the youngest major semifinalist since Martina Hingis in 1997. Somewhat appropriately, Andreeva's opener features two players who would still be eligible to contest the junior competition: she will face fellow 17-year-old Brenda Fruhvirtova, who is just 27 days older than her. The pair are the two youngest competitors in the main draw this year, and have not played since their junior days -- a 6-1, 6-0 victory for Fruhvirtova in the 2021 College Park J1 final.
The winner of that teenage tilt will take on a former Top 10 player making her way back from injury -- either Karolina Muchova
No.8 seed Zheng Qinwen is the projected quarterfinal opponent for whoever makes it out of the Sabalenka section. The Australian Open runner-up starts against qualifier Lulu Sun
View Profile in the last 16. However, Sakkari -- who has won just one match in her past five majors -- will potentially have to navigate the challenge of either Alexandrova or Raducanu in the third round first. The Greek player opens against qualifier McCartney Kessler.
First-round matches to watch: [8] Zheng Qinwen vs. [Q] Lulu Sun
The key round for US Open champion Gauff, who opens against fellow American Caroline Dolehide
View Profile , will be the fourth. That was the stage she reached as a 15-year-old qualifier here in 2019, but Wimbledon remains the only major at which she has yet to progress beyond it. This year, she's likely to face a formidable opponent there -- though both Azarenka and Osaka face tough openers first. Azarenka faces former US Open champion Sloane Stephens off the bat, while Osaka takes on Diane Parry
View Profile is also lurking here, and could face Azarenka in the second round. But Pliskova's first-round opponent, the powerful left-handed 19-year-old Diana Shnaider
View Profile , could be the dark horse of the entire section. Shnaider has reached her first grass-court semifinal in Bad Homburg this week.
View Profile , the No.7 seed, is Gauff's projected quarterfinal opponent. The Italian has also made her first grass-court semifinal this week in Eastbourne, and opens against Sara Sorribes Tormo
View Profile , who stunned Swiatek at the Australian Open in January, is a potential third-round opponent; the 19-year-old could face former US Open champion Bianca Andreescu
View Profile in the second round. Andreescu, playing the fourth tournament of her comeback from a back injury, starts against Jaqueline Cristian.
