If her body takes the shock (she gave up at Eastbourne on Thursday) and if her game finally gets back in place, the 5th in the world can create a surprise in London. The Lyonnaise thus finds herself in the part of the table of the world number one Iga Swiatek, who is not a grass specialist and who has just withdrawn in Bad Hombourg before playing her semi-final. The two players could end up in the last four. But before this hypothetical semi-final, Caroline Garcia will begin her journey against Katie Volynets (United States, 123rd). A very affordable first round, before potentially challenging Veronika Kudermetova (12th) in the eighth and Jessica Pegula (4th) in the quarters.
On the other side, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, number 3 in the WTA ranking and title holder of the tournament was placed in the half of the table of the Belarusian world number 2, Aryna Sabalenka. In this part, we also find the finalist of last year, the Tunisian Ons Jabeur (6th).
Rybakina could find a Frenchwoman on her way in the second round with Alizée Cornet, provided that the Kazakh manages to get rid of Montenegrin Danka Kovinic, the 89th player in the WTA. Among the other posters of the first round is the “clash” between the five-time Wimbledon champion, the American Venus Williams (43), initially opposed to the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, former semi-finalist on the London lawn in 2019 .
If the logic were respected and according to the seeds, the quarter-finals could hypothetically give rise to the following oppositions: Iga Swiatek against Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula against Caroline Garcia, Elena Rybakina against Ons Jabeur, and Maria Sakkari against Aryna Sabalenka.