The 8 seeded players eliminated on the first day of Wimbledon 2026

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Surprises everywhere. That is what has been experienced on the first day of competition at Wimbledon 2026 this Monday, June 29. Once the first-round matches in both the men's and women's upper brackets were completed, a total of 8 seeds have been eliminated, seeing their hopes of making a significant impact at the All England Lawn Tennis Club shattered much earlier than expected. Many of them had serious aspirations of achieving something important.

Perhaps the most surprising was seeing Andrey Rublev, a former quarterfinalist in previous editions of this tournament, succumb in an epic battle with Russian Roman Safiullin. Everything was decided in the super tiebreak of the fifth set, where Rublev could not assert his authority. It was also a huge shock for everyone the elimination of Cameron Norrie, a great local hope following Draper's withdrawal. The Briton succumbed to young Michael Zheng in another agonizing match resolved in five sets.

Four men and four women constitute the seeded upsets on Monday at Wimbledon 2026

It was more predictable that Casper Ruud would fall early, as everyone is aware that grass is far from ideal terrain for the Norwegian, who ran into an inspired Hurkacz. The other seed that fell was Luciano Darderi, unable to find his comfort on grass and succumbing in three sets to Quinn.

In the women's tournament, four other seeds are already out of the London event. The most dramatic case was that of Maja Chwalinska, who had her match under control against Sawangkaew, but twisted her ankle in the second set and could hardly compete from that moment on. Leylah Fernández (against Tjen), Anastasia Potapova (against Bouzas), and Ann Li (against Sonmez) were the other seeds eliminated in this first day of Wimbledon 2026.

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