Sunday, 26 June 2022 13:50 PM BST
Finals and dark horses: predictions for 2022

It’s the question we’re all trying to answer. Who’s going to win Wimbledon?

Who better to ask than a group of experts that watch tennis for a living? It’s their job - they should know what they’re talking about, right?

Once the draws were revealed, we assembled a group bursting at the seams with tennis expertise from former players, commentators, analysts and writers and asked them to predict the men’s and ladies’ finals and to choose one ‘dark horse’ from each draw that might go deep.

Novak Djokovic and Matteo Berrettini were easily the most popular men’s finalists, with many picking out Nick Kyrgios and American serve-volley specialist Maxime Cressy as the two big dangermen in the draw.

A good few came back with Rafael Nadal’s name, too, despite his foot problems and no official grass court matches for three years. The Spaniard, of course, is halfway to a calendar year Grand Slam.

World No.1 Iga Swiatek and the Pole’s undefeated run of 35 matches were hard to ignore in the ladies’ draw and other names plucked out for potential success include Jelena Ostapenko, Coco Gauff, two-time champion and Eastbourne winner coming into the Championships, Petra Kvitova, as well as Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur who will begin The Championships at a new career-high ranking of No.2.

And look out for recent Nottingham and Birmingham champion Beatriz Haddad Maia from Brazil.

Here’s what our experts said…

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