By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Five-time Wimbledon winner Venus Williams, Elina Svitolina and David Goffin are among the notable Wimbledon wild-card recipients.
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Venus Williams will play for the Venus Rosewater Dish next month.
Five-time Wimbledon champion Williams leads a list of Wimbledon wild-card recipients announced today.
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Twenty-three years after winning her maiden Wimbledon, Williams will return The Championships, which start on July 3rd.
The 43-year-old Williams will make her 24th career Wimbledon singles appearance. Williams owns a 90-18 career Wimbledon record, raising the Venus Rosewater Dish in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2008.
Venus Williams fought off championship points defeating Lindsay Davenport 4-6, 7-6, 9-7, in the 2005 Wimbledon final widely regarded as one of the finest finals in the history of The Championships.
The wild card announcement comes a couple of days after Williams fought off Camila Giorgi 7-6(5), 4-6, 7-6(6) in an epic three hour, 16-minute Birmingham battle.
It was Williams' first Top 50 win in nearly four years and her first grass-court win since she defeated Mihaela Buzarnescu in the 2021 Wimbledon first round.
Former world No. 3 Elina Svitolina, a 2019 Wimbledon semifinalist, British No. 1 Katie Boulter and compatriot Heather Watson are among the other Wimbledon ladies' main-draw wild card recipients.
On the men's side, Belgian David Goffin and five British men have received main-draw wild cards. Americans John Isner and Jack Sock, a former Wimbledon doubles champion, received a main-draw doubles wild card.
The Championships will announce two more men's main-draw wild cards and one more ladies wild card in the coming days.
2023 Wimbledon Wild Cards
