Elina Svitolina
What she has already accomplished
. She is the third player in the Open era to beat four former Grand Slam winners (Venus Williams, Kenin, Azarenka and Swiatek) in a major tournament, after Serena Williams at the 1999 US Open and Justine Henin at the 2005 French Open. Serena and Justine had both won the title.
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. She is the fifth wild card to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam in the Open era after Jie Zheng (Wimbledon 2008), Kim Clijsters (US Open 2009), Justine Henin (Australian Open 2010) and Sabine Lisicki (Wimbledon 2011).
If she wins her half
. At 28, she will play her first Grand Slam final, after two failures in the semi-finals (Wimbledon and US Open 2019).
In case of title
. She will become the 7th mom in history to win a Grand Slam title.
. She will be the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon (Open era).
Marketa Vondrousova
What she has already accomplished
. She is the third player to eliminate four seeds on the road to the semi-finals at Wimbledon after Zheng Jie (2008) and Barbora Strycova (2019).
If she wins her half
. She will play her 2nd Grand Slam final after Roland-Garros 2019 (lost against Ashleigh Barty).
. She will be the 4th Czech to reach the Wimbledon final after Jana Novotna, Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova.
In case of title
. She will be the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon (Open era).
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What she has already accomplished
. She equaled the South African Amanda Coetzer who was until now the African player with the most Grand Slam semi-finals (3).
If she wins her half
. She will be the third player to play two finals in a row at Wimbledon in the 21st century, after the Williams sisters.
In case of title
. She will be the first player from the entire Arab world and the entire African continent to win a Grand Slam tournament (in singles).
Aryna Sabalenka
What she has already accomplished
. She is the only player to have reached the semi-finals of the last four Grand Slam tournaments.
. She is the first player to reach the semi-finals of the first three Grand Slams of the season since Serena Williams in 2016.
. She is the third player in the Open era to win her first six Grand Slam quarter-finals after Ann Jones and Chris Evert.
If she wins her half
. She will become world No. 1 for the first time, dethroning Iga Swiatek, who has occupied this rank continuously since April 2022.
In case of title
. She will win the second major tournament of her career (after the Australian Open this year) and will be in contention for the small Slam.
Carlos Alcaraz
What he has already accomplished
. He is the youngest player to reach three consecutive Grand Slam semi-finals in the Open era (series started at the US Open last year since it should be noted that he was forfeited this year at the Open d ‘Australia).
If he wins his half
. He will be the second Spaniard to play the Wimbledon final in the Open era after Rafael Nadal.
In case of title
. At 20 years and 72 days, he will become the third youngest Wimbledon winner in the Open era after Boris Becker (17 and 18 in 1985-86) and Björn Borg (20 in 1976).
. He will keep his place as world No. 1.
Daniil Medvedev
What he has already accomplished
. He is the 9th active player to reach the mark of six Grand Slam semi-finals, after Novak Djokovic (46), Rafael Nadal (38), Andy Murray (21), Stan Wawrinka (9), Marin Cilic, Dominic Thiem , Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev (all 6).
If he wins his half
. Excluding the Big Four (Big Three now), he will be the only active player to have reached five Grand Slam finals.
In case of title
. He will be the first Russian player in history to win Wimbledon.
. He will take the place of n°1 in the Race.
Jannik Sinner
What he has already accomplished
. He is the first Italian player in history to reach at least two Wimbledon quarter-finals.
If he wins his half
. He will be the second Italian player in history to reach the Wimbledon final after Matteo Berrettini in 2021.
In case of title
. He will be the second Italian player to win a Grand Slam in the Open era, after Adriano Panatta at Roland-Garros in 1976.
Novak Djokovic
What he has already accomplished
. He reached his 46th Grand Slam semi-final, equaling Roger Federer’s record.
If he wins his half
. He will play his 35th Grand Slam final and will thus become the only holder of a record he has shared since Roland-Garros with Chris Evert.
In case of title
. He will win his 24th Grand Slam tournament and thus equal Margaret Court’s historic record.
. He will win his 8th Wimbledon and thus equal Roger Federer’s record.
. He will win his 5th consecutive Wimbledon and thus equal the Open era record of Björn Borg and Roger Federer.
. He will become, at 36 years and 55 days, the oldest winner in Wimbledon history.
. He will become world number 1 again.
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