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Quick & dirty since we ride shortly. Action begins at 5a on ESPN & the app. 

 

Men's draw

Women's draw

 

This is pretty crazy... 

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Wimbledon's arrival on the tennis calendar means very different things on the men's and women's sides of the tour. 

For the men, Wimbledon represents probably the most predictable of all Slams. In the past 20 years, only 12 players have reached the gentlemen's final. Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic accounted for more than half of those 40 spots in the finals by themselves, and Djokovic has made the past six finals, winning four and losing the past two to Carlos Alcaraz. Alcaraz, meanwhile, has won the past four Slams on natural surfaces (clay or grass). If you just want to pencil him into the finals already, it's rational. 

On the women's side, however, things are far different. Despite a pretty clear hierarchy forming atop the women's tour -- Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff have won nine of the past 10 Slams on hard courts or clay -- seven different women have won the past seven Wimbledon titles. The past four years at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club have given us 13 different semifinalists. Grass is the ultimate sign of greatness for the men and a random-outcome generator for the women. 

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