Wimbledon 2026 seeds: Full list of 32 women's seedings and how they are faring
The Wimbledon women’s singles has been one of the most open grand slam contests of the past decade.
Since Serena Williams went back-to-back in 2015 and 2016, there have been eight different winners at SW19, and though the American is making a remarkable comeback after four years away, it would be an all-time shock if she won an eighth Wimbledon title 10 years on from her seventh.
Poland’s Iga Swiatek is the defending champ, earning her first grass-court major when ruthlessly beating Amanda Anisimova 6-0 6–0 in the final last year.
Swiatek is the third seed for the 2026 Wimbledon Championships, where world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and No 7 Coco Gauff are among the star names chasing a first title.
Sabalenka is yet to reach a final at the All England Club with the four-time grand slam champion having lost in the semi-finals three times, while Gauff is yet to progress beyond the fourth round.
The only British female seeded at Wimbledon was Emma Raducanu at No 30, but she was forced to withdraw due to injury, while 19-year-old Mirra Andreeva of Russia is the fifth seed and out to build on her breakthrough grand slam success at Roland-Garros.
French Open runner-up Maja Chwalinska is the first seeded player in the Open era to also receive a wild card. She had been ranked 114th when the Wimbledon entry list was cut-off, only to shoot up the rankings following her surprise run in Paris.
During the tournament, this list will be updated at the end of each day’s play to score out any seeds who have been eliminated and detail their defeat.
3. Iga Swiatek – Remind yourself how Swiatek won the Wimbledon title last year here.
8. Elina Svitolina (lost in the first round to Daria Snigur 7-5 6-2): There had been question marks over Svitolina’s fitness after she withdrew from the Bad Homburg quarterfinals last week without hitting a ball, concerns that were justified by the one-sided look to this scoreline that should really have been the other way round on paper: Snigur is ranked nearly 70 places below her fellow Ukrainian.
20. Maja Chwalinska (lost in the first round to Mananchaya Sawangkaew 2-6 7-5 6-2) – A devastating exit for the French Open runner-up, who had earned a wild card at Wimbledon on top of rising into the top 30 on the back of her run at Roland-Garros. In the first round Maja Chwalinska suffered an injury on match point in the second set when slipping on Court 12, and went on to lose in three to Thailand’s Mananchaya Sawangkaew.
22. Leylah Fernandez (lost in the first round to Janice Tjen 6-1 7-6) – The 2021 US Open runner-up is yet to reach the third round of Wimbledon and it will not be in 2026, with Canada’s Leylah Fernandez losing in straight sets to Indonesia’s Janice Tjen, who is making her debut at SW19 this year.
24. Clara Tauson (lost in the first round to Maria Sakkari 6-3 6-3) – It was a tough ask against Maria Sakkari, a former world No 3 and two-time grand slam semi-finalist, and ultimately Clara Tuason was no match for the Greek 30-year-old, who has reached the third round here four times but is yet to make the fourth.
27. Anastasia Potapova (lost in the first round to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-2 6-3) – Having won just three Wimbledon matches in her career, Anastasia Potapova could not make it four, outclassed in straight sets as Jessica Bouzas Maneiro advanced a year on from making the fourth round here.
28. Ann Li (lost in the first round to Zeynep Sonmez 7-5 1-6 6-4) – Despite reaching a career-high 29th in the world last month, Ann Li was ousted by Turkey’s Zeynep Sonmez, who reached the third round at Wimbledon last year.