Jannik Sinner v Alexander Zverev LIVE: Wimbledon 2026 final start time, prediction, latest score and updates

Record prize money is on offer at this year’s Wimbledon, with the eventual winners of the men’s and women’s singles titles each receiving £3.6m.

Prize money was a contentious subject ahead of the 2026 Championships, leading Wimbledon to announce its biggest ever single-year uplift in an attempt to appease unhappy players.

The All England Club revealed a 20 per cent increase, with the total prize pot rising to £64.2m from last year’s £53.5m.

Tokito Oda successfully defended his Wimbledon crown with a dominant 6-1 6-1 win over Britain’s Alfie Hewett in the men’s wheelchair singles final.

The 20-year-old has now drawn level with Hewett with 10 grand slam singles titles and is joint-second on the all-time list, behind 28-time winner Shingo Kunieda.

Between them the pair have won the last 14 majors but the rivalry has become increasingly one-sided, with Oda winning 10 and Hewett four, and the Japanese star beating Hewett in eight of the 10 finals the pair have contested.

Wimbledon will be a quieter place this year without the talents of two-time champion Carlos Alcaraz.

The 23-year-old Spaniard is not playing this year’s tournament as he continues to recover from a wrist injury.

Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid reclaimed their Wimbledon wheelchair doubles crown on Saturday, defeating Tokito Oda and Gustavo Fernandez in three sets to win their seventh doubles title as a pair at the Championships.

Hewett, 28, and Reid, 34, came from a set down on Court No 1 to avenge last year’s defeat to Martin de la Puente and Ruben Spaargaren. Hewett and Reid returned to Wimbledon as the number one seeds, with Japan’s Oda and Argentina’s Fernandez knocking out De la Puente and Spaargaren in the semi-final.

The 2-6 6-1 6-2 victory in one hour and 47 minutes for the British pair means they have now won 25 grand slam doubles titles together.

World No 1s Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara won the Wimbledon men’s doubles title on Saturday, reclaiming their 2024 crown with a straight-sets win over sixth seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic.

The top-seeded pair were immaculate on serve and raised their game further in two clinical tiebreaks, winning 7-6(4) 7-6(3) in a match which featured no break points.

It was redemption for Britain’s Patten and his Finnish partner after they lost the Queen’s final to the same opposition in straight sets just last month, while it marked an immediate return to the top after they lost a one-sided Roland-Garros final, and made Patten the first British man to win the Wimbledon men’s doubles crown twice.

“I was just telling myself that the match is starting over. I was in the bathroom. I just splashed some cold water on me, started over again. But what really helped me, like the first step I took off court, the trophies were there. I was like, I’m not going to take the small one, I’m taking the big one, I’m taking this one no matter what. If I’m going to leave my soul on court in the third set, whatever that be. I have been so close. This will probably be the heartbreak of my life. I started over.”

“I just wanted to fight for every point. This tournament matters to me. I’m like, okay, I don’t want to lose 2-6, 2-6. I’m like, I’m going to do everything to break her serve and keep my serve. I was still believing that I can turn it around. So that was in my head.

“I think I started really slow today. On the other hand, Linda started really strong, really good serving games. She played really fast. I was kind of looking for myself. It took a lot of power and strength out of me, I would say, to get back in that second set. I gave it my all.

“The people were cheering on me. I felt it. I felt the support. I felt the momentum in the second set, that I turn it around. It was definitely nice that it happened. It took some strength out of me.

“Unfortunately then the start of the third kind of slipped through my fingers.”

“There’s one more person I’d like to thank which is my mum, I definitely would not be standing here without her, so thank you,” Noskova said before looking towards the sky and blowing a kiss, as she then became overwhelmed with emotion.

“I don’t cry normally, this is not okay for me! I have been enjoying these two weeks so much, all the sad tears, all the happy tears, all the sweat and blood put into this, it was all worth it. I will definitely never forget these two weeks.”

Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova dedicated her victory over Karolina Muchova to her late mother, Ivana, who passed away on the eve of the same tournament two years ago.

Noskova, 21, won her first grand slam title and became the latest Czech player to lift the Venue Rosewater Dish as she overcame compatriot Muchova in a thrilling three-set battle on Centre Court.

She reserved her final thank you for her late mother, who passed away following a long battle with cancer shortly before the start of the 2024 Championships. Noskova, then 19, was seeded 26th at the tournament but lost in the second round.

1. Hanyu Guo (CHN) / Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) [10] v Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Luisa Stefani (BRA) [2]
2. Starts at 16:00: Jannik Sinner (ITA) [1] v Alexander Zverev (GER) [2]

1. Tokito Oda (JPN) [1] v Alfie Hewett (GBR) [2]
2. Not Before 1:00pm: Jordan Lee (USA) v Cruz Hewitt (AUS)
3. Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) / Barbora Strycova (CZE) v Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) / Lucie Safarova (CZE)