2001 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles


defeated Pat Rafter in the final, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 2–6, 9–7 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships. Ivanišević became the first unseeded player to win the title since Boris Becker in 1985. He became the first wild card to win a Grand Slam. Before the tournament he was ranked 125th and after the win he climbed 109 places to 16th. He had reached the final three times before but lost each time.
Pete Sampras was a then record seven-time champion, but he lost in the fourth round to 19-year-old Roger Federer. The Sampras-Federer match was the only time the two tennis legends ever competed against each other in any ATP event as active tour players. This was the first Grand Slam tournament at which Federer was seeded. Sampras was also attempting to equal Björn Borg's five consecutive Wimbledon titles, which Federer would achieve in 2007.
This was the first year where Wimbledon expanded from 16 seeds to 32 seeds.

Seeds

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Andre Agassi '
Pat Rafter '
Marat Safin '
Lleyton Hewitt '
Tim Henman '
Yevgeny Kafelnikov '
Juan Carlos Ferrero '
Sébastien Grosjean '
Thomas Enqvist '
Thomas Johansson '
Jan-Michael Gambill '
Arnaud Clément '
Wayne Ferreira '
Roger Federer '
Vladimir Voltchkov '
Tommy Haas '
Magnus Norman '
Nicolas Kiefer '
Fabrice Santoro '
Carlos Moyá '
Dominik Hrbatý '
Todd Martin '
Nicolas Escudé '
Albert Portas '
Sjeng Schalken '
Hicham Arazi '
Franco Squillari '
Guillermo Coria '
Nicolás Lapentti '
Alberto Martín '
Gastón Gaudio '
Jonas Björkman '
Harel Levy '
Magnus Norman and Nicolás Lapentti withdrew due to injury. They were replaced in the draw by the highest-ranked non-seeded players Jonas Björkman and Harel Levy, who became the #33 and #34 seeds respectively.

Qualifying

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8