Winning tips for ESPN’s ‘Tennis Major Pick’em: London’ contest

What is it? It’s a free-to-play game, where you take a few minutes to answer a series of questions related to the upcoming Wimbledon tennis Grand Slam event, which starts on Monday, June 28, and ends Sunday, July 11.

His record on grass stands at 42-3 since the start of the 2014 season, and his overall record this season is 27-3 with three championships in seven tournaments played.

Federer has missed much of the last two seasons with knee issues that required multiple surgeries, but with eight Wimbledon titles, Federer has had more success on this court than any other Grand Slam.

Tsitsipas has advanced to at least the semifinals of the last three majors played, including a final appearance and narrow five-set loss to Djokovic in the 2021 French Open.

Nadal and Dominic Thiem have both withdrawn from the tournament, but Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev are two other elite players who have Grand Slam final appearances in the past year.

In the five Grand Slams of the past two seasons, Djokovic has lost five games once .

In his last five Grand Slams, Zverev has advanced to the final at the 2020 US Open, the semifinals and quarterfinals at the last two Australian Opens, and the semifinals and fourth round of the last two French Opens.

He has wins at the ATP Finals, Cincinnati Masters, Shanghai Masters and Paris Masters, and has advanced to the final and semifinals of the last two US Opens.

He made it to the Round of 16 of the 2021 Australian Open and the quarterfinals of the 2021 French Open, career best finishes at both events.

Rublev lost in the first round of the French Open, breaking a streak of reaching the quarterfinals in each of his previous three majors appearances, including the 2020 French Open, 2020 US Open and 2021 Australian Open.

Kyrgios made the quarterfinals of his first Wimbledon in 2014, beating Nadal along the way — but he went out in the first, third and second rounds, respectively, in his last three appearances in the tournament.

Murray will open Wimbledon against 24th-ranked Georgian Nikolos Basilashvili, who has won two titles in 2021 and reached the semifinals at the grass court Halle tournament last week.

Isner leads the ATP with a 316.4 serve rating in the last 52 weeks, and also leads with 20.5 aces per match on average across all surfaces.

Querrey has had, by far, his best Grand Slam results at Wimbledon, finishing in the quarterfinals, semifinals, third round and quarterfinals, respectively, each year between 2016 and 2019.

Federer made the semifinals of the last major he finished, the 2020 Australian Open, and returned to make the fourth round of the French Open last month before retiring to conserve his health.

She won the 2019 French Open, made the semifinals and quarterfinals at the last two Australian Opens, but she was upset in the second round of this year’s French Open.

Williams has won Wimbledon seven times and owns an open era record 23 individual majors overall, but her last win was in 2017 in the Australian Open before her maternity leave.

Osaka and Halep have won five of the last 12 Grand Slams, and the other seven were won by seven different women.

Williams has advanced beyond the first round in only two of her last eight Grand Slam appearances, and she just turned 41 years old last week.

Azarenka was one of the dominant players on tour in the early part of the 2010s, winning two Australian Opens in 2012 and 2013 during a three-year stretch when she also made two Wimbledon semifinals.

Gauff is playing some of the best tennis of her young career, with a combined 17-5 record during the last several months that includes the clay and grass seasons.

She returned for the 2021 season and played in the last two majors, but she made it only to the second round of the Australian Open and lost in the first round at the French Open.

She made the final of the 2020 Australian Open, and the fourth round of the same event this season, but she went out in the first round of the French Open last month.

She made the second round of each of the first two Grand Slams this season and overall is 16-8 with one title in 10 tournaments.

Sabalenka has played in three Wimbledon tournaments, making the second round in her debut in 2017 then bowing out in the first round the subsequent two years.

She advanced to the Round of 16 at this season’s Australian Open and the quarterfinals of this season’s French Open.

Williams hasn’t played on grass in the last two years, but went 12-2 on the surface in 2018 and 2019 with Wimbledon final appearances both seasons.

The most total games during that stretch was 84 during 2019 Wimbledon, fueled by the record-breaking men’s final between Djokovic and Federer that didn’t go to a tiebreaker until 12-all in the fifth set.

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