It's always difficult to choose just one, but the team from wimbledon.com have scratched their heads, thought very hard and come up with their favourite moments from The Championships 2022.
Lee Goodall, home page editor
I've chosen one of the most bizarre, luckiest and most significant shots of the men’s doubles event.
Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram are up two sets to love on Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell on No.1 Court in the semi-finals.
They have never made a Wimbledon final as a team. We’re deep into the third set tie-break and they’ve already watched four match points disappear.
They get one more at 9-8. Surely this time?
Ram crunches a return hard and fast straight at Purcell at the net and somehow the Aussie gets his racket in the way. He has no idea what’s happening but somehow the ball hits the throat of his racket frame at high speed and ricochets off at an acute angle for a winner.
Incredible. The Aussies won that shootout and the match in five sets and clinched Saturday’s thrilling final on a fifth-set deciding tie-break against Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic. Oh, and they saved three match points in the first round too.
Nick Spencer, sub-editor
It's a moment from the second round that must still haunt British wild card Alastair Gray.
In a second set tie-break, he turned away to celebrate hitting a winning volley.
He was still busy celebrating when Taylor Fritz, all 6ft 5in of him, flung himself full length to steer a winner into the open court.
To add to Gray's embarrassment, it won Fritz the set but no doubt taught him a valuable lesson.
Kate Battersby, writer
Simply being back on site at Wimbledon for the first time in three years was an absolute thrill, and remained so for every minute of the Fortnight.
In 2020 COVID made The Championships impossible, and last year almost all the wimbledon.com team produced our coverage from home.
This was the 27th year that I have covered The Championships, and it was a reminder of how much I treasure the privilege of being in this enchanted place.
If you ever get the opportunity to attend, don’t hesitate. Wimbledon… it’s magic, you know.
Sarah Edworthy, writer
It has to be the look on Harmony Tan's face when she realised she had beaten Serena Williams on the seven-time champion's first singles match back for a year. And what a match!
A classic Wimbledon fightback reflected in the score 7-5, 1-6, 7-6[10-7], followed by the unheralded Frenchwoman's charming response.
"For my first Wimbledon, it's wow. Just wow. When I saw the draw I was really scared. Because it's Serena Williams... and I was like 'oh my god how can I play, and if I could win one or two games it was really good for me!"
Kate Clark, sub-editor
The parade of champions to mark the centenary of Centre Court on Middle Sunday was something special. To have so many famous faces, all gathered on the very court where they triumphed is something we're unlikely to see again for a while.
Bjorn Borg is the champion I first remember being really aware of, and to see him, accompanied by those who came before, such as Rod Laver and Billie Jean King, through Lleyton Hewitt, Venus Williams, Andy Murray and Roger Federer, right up to Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep in their Wimbledon whites was a definite memorable moment for me.
Courtney Walsh, writer
It was a remarkable tournament for the Aussies, from the brilliant deeds through Qualifying to the run to the final of Nick Kyrgios and much more.
There were high points everywhere with Kyrgios close to delivering on his potential.
The sheer excitement of the "Super M and Ms", Matt Ebden and Max Purcell, after they claimed an enthralling doubles title in a deciding tie-break after a five set epic was something to behold.
It is rare there has been a press conference like it. The stenographers did a stellar job to keep up, so quickly were they talking.
But a personal highlight was seeing Jason Kubler, a highly-talented player who has battled serious injuries from his late teens, not only to qualify but also to reach the fourth round. It is a life-changing moment for the 29-year-old.
Reem Abulleil, writer
Ons Jabeur’s entire Fortnight is unforgettable but the moment that will stick with me forever was when the Tunisian beat her friend Tatjana Maria in the semi-finals then pulled the German back on court to share the crowd’s adulation and applause with her.
Jabeur had just made history by becoming the first Arab player and first African woman in the Open era to reach a Grand Slam final, but instead of hogging the spotlight, she preferred to share it with Maria, who at 34, is a mother of two and playing the tennis of her life.
It was all quintessentially Ons and it showed why she’s one of the most loved characters in the locker room.
Dan Imhoff, writer
Amid the shock of reaching a maiden Grand Slam final, few possess the selflessness to immediately ensure their vanquished opponent shares in the crowd’s applause.
Such was Ons Jabeur’s respect and admiration for her “barbecue buddy” Tatjana Maria’s unlikely run to the semi-finals that she ushered the world No.103 back onto court and raised her hand to hail the achievement.
While humbled, the German only soaked it up momentarily. She wanted the Tunisian to bask in her finest moment.
Viv Christie, writer
Amid the many stunning on-court moments that could top a ‘most memorable’ list, I’m taking mine off the court.
Sitting in a small room with a handful of media, Australia's Jason Kubler provided crystal clear perspective of his progress to the fourth round.
“When I do look back on today, it's not going to be, ‘Damn, I lost’. It's going to be, ‘I'm happy I got to play one of the biggest courts in the world’,” he said after losing to Taylor Fritz on No.1 Court.
“And I fought till the end.” Kubler had indeed fought, both in a micro and a macro sense.
His best Grand Slam performance, coming as a 29-year-old qualifier after multiple surgeries and breaks from tennis, highlighted the tremendous privilege of simply competing in a Wimbledon main draw.
Vowing to use his breakthrough as a springboard to bigger achievements, the humble Kubler also demonstrated an important lesson for all players - that there is such a thing as a win in a loss.
Janine Self, sub-editor
The sight of Rafa Nadal saying goodbye to the Wimbledon behind-the-scenes staff following his withdrawal from the men's singles semi-final because of an abdominal strain.
The Spaniard has always been a classy operator on the court but he is also a true gentleman off it. Get well soon, Rafa.
Will Rogan, picture editor (digital)
My favourite part of the championships was being able to immerse myself in the set-up of the tournament. It was fantastic to be surrounded by some of the titans of the sport, both players and members of the media who I have grown up watching.
The absolute highlight was attending the first-ever practice on Centre Court. It was amazing to watch Rafa Nadal and Matteo Berrettini put each other through their paces with very few other people watching.
It was a privilege to see, and it brought home how fortunate I am to be involved in one of the world’s biggest sporting events and to be so close to global superstars.
Mark Hodgkinson, writer
A little while after the ladies' singles final, Ons Jabeur was trying to do some television interviews on a balcony near Centre Court, and to reflect on her disappointment.
It must have been hard for the runner-up to even hear herself think, as a group of Tunisians fans had gathered beneath and were loudly singing her name.
She walked down some steps to thank them for their support, in another illustration of her warm and sunny approach to tennis and also to life.
Alix Ramsay, writer
Pretty much any moment that involved Ons Jabeur. She is funny, she is warm and she is genuine – and she can play some ball.
From her promising to teach Elena Rybakina how to celebrate on match point (and doing it soon after having lost her first Wimbledon final, too) to her taking her best pal Tatjana Maria back out on court to share the applause after their semi-final, she has shown the world what some of us have known for years: she is a class act.
Alex Sharp, editor/writer
There have been a plethora of memorable moments, but I'm slightly biased as a Brit. I have to go with the booming atmosphere as Andy Murray attempted an archetypal comeback against John Isner in the second round.
The two-time champion might have lost in four sets, however, there is something unique and compelling about a chorus of ardent home fans engaging and inspiring the Scot.
Michael Beattie, social media producer
A quest that began at Wimbledon in 2006 was finally – yet anything but inevitably – completed here in 2022 as Shingo Kunieda won Grand Slam title No.50, and Wimbledon singles crown No.1.
With his 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(5) victory over Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett, the Japanese wheelchair singles phenom has completed his set of elite titles. He has won all four Grand Slam singles and doubles crowns, as well as four Paralympic golds, singles and doubles titles at the year-end ITF Masters and two World Team Cups, making him the most decorated player in wheelchair tennis history.
And it turns out I was privy to the conversation that the 38-year-old credits with helping him finally master the grass.
Last summer, with all eyes on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Kunieda joined Gordon Reid and one Roger Federer on a call coordinated by the ITF and their shared sponsor to compare notes on playing on their respective tours – and Kunieda, who has perennially struggled on the perennial ryegrass, took his chance to pick the eight-time champion’s brain.
On Sunday, he admitted the advice had stuck.
"My question was how to play on grass and how to think when behind on grass," Kunieda said.
"[Federer] said, 'Yeah, you should attack every point. If you make a mistake, no regret.’ That's the key, yeah."
And so it proved.