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By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday July 3, 2021

 
Emma Raducanu

Great Britain's Emma Raducanu is the lowest-ranked player remaining at Wimbledon. This and more numbers to make your head spin in By the Numbers.

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Wimbledon’s round of 16 is set. Before we get into previewing Manic Monday, here’s a look at some of the crazy numbers from the first week.

6 Number of Wimbledon debutants—Emma Raducanu, Barbora Krejcikova, Liudmila Samsonova, Elena Rybakina, Sebastian Korda and Ilya Ivashka—that have reached the round of 16.


10 Number of players that had never won a match at Wimbledon that have reached the round of 16 this year.

Emma Raducanu, debut
Barbora Krejcikova, debut
Liudmila Samsonova, debut
Elena Rybakina, debut
Sebastian Korda, debut
Ilya Ivashka, debut
Iga Swiatek, 0-1
Paula Badosa, 0-1
Lorenzo Sonego, 0-2
Cristian Garin, 0-3

1 The number of singles players that survived the first week of Wimbledon without dropping serve. Hubert Hurkacz held serve in all 42 of his service games.

15 The current winning streak of Barbora Krejcikova, who has been running the table since she took the court at Strasbourg, prior to Roland-Garros.

17 Novak Djokovic has stretched his current Grand Slam winning streak and his current Wimbledon winning streak to 17. Where it stops nobody knows.


121 The fastest recorded serve in the women’s singles draw, shared by Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka and Liudmila Samsonova, who all hit that mark in their third-round matches.

2 Number of wild cards – No.338 Emma Raducanu and No.63 Liudmila Samsonova – that have reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon. It marks the first time in the Open Era that two women’s singles wild cards have reached the second week at any Grand Slam.

42 Number of consecutive service holds registered by Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz in week one at Wimbledon. The Pole is the only singles player, male or female, that didn’t drop serve in week one of Wimbledon.

1955 For the first time in 66 years, two Italian men—Matteo Berrettini and Lorenzo Sonego—are into the round of 16 at Wimbledon.

3 Number of players that have reached the round of 16 on the Roland Garros and US Open debuts in the Open Era. 20-year-old American Sebastian Korda (Roland Garros 2020, Wimbledon 2021) joins a club that includes the legendary Bjorn Borg (1973) and Mikael Pernfors (1986).

37 Number of backhand winners struck by Angelique Kerber in her three week one matches at Wimbledon. The German has 10 more winners than any other player, male or female, off the backhand wing.

121 Fastest serve by a women’s singles player, in MPH, during week one at Wimbledon. Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka and Liudmila Samsonova, are tied at the top.

On the men’s side, Matteo Berrettini leads with a 139 MPH serve.

3 Three Russian men—No.2 seed Daniil Medvedev, No.5 seed Andrey Rublev and No. 25 seed Karen Khachanov—are through to the second week at Wimbledon for the first time in Open Era History.

2 Number of teenagers remaining in the men’s and women’s singles draws. 17-year-old Coco Gauff is the youngest. 18-year-old Raducanu is the other.

7 Unseeded players that made the round of 16 at Wimbledon. They are:

Emma Raducanu, ranked 338
Liudmila Samsonova, ranked 63/br> Viktorija Golubic, ranked 66
Ajla Tomjlanovic, ranked 75
Sebastian Korda, ranked 50
Marton Fucsovics, ranked 48
Ilya Ivaskha, ranked 79

6 Number of Grand Slam champions left in the draw. There are two men—Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer—and four women—Angelique Kerber, Iga Swiatek, Barbora Krejcikova and Ashleigh Barty.

3 Number of Wimbledon singles champions left. Federer, Djokovic and Kerber.

60 Matteo Berrettini leads all remaining players with 60 aces through three rounds. Ashleigh Barty leads all remaining women with 26.

29 Number of times that Roger Federer served-and-volleyed during week one at Wimbledon. That’s more than any other player, male or female. There were 13 singles player that reached the second week without serving and volleying once.

 

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