Venus Williams 2023 Wimbledon Odds: Darkhorse in 2023 Wimbledon Draw

Five-Time Champion Venus Williams Will be Unseeded at 2023 Wimbledon Tourney

There was a time when it seemed like the only player who could prevent Venus Williams from winning at Wimbledon was her younger sister Serena. From 2000-2009, she won five titles at Wimbledon and three other times lost to Serena in the title match. It is a much different story now looking at the Venus Williams 2023 Wimbledon odds.

Williams has advanced past the fourth round at Wimbledon since 2011 just twice and she is just 3-3 since making it to the 2017 final versus Garbine Muguruza.

Looking at the women’s Wimbledon odds, Williams is well back at +30000 in the Wimbledon women’s outrights.

Williams received a wild card into the main draw at Wimbledon along with 2019 semifinalist Elina Svitolina and Great Britain products Katie Boulter, Jodie Burrage, Harriet Dart, Katie Swan and Heather Watson. Boulter topped Burrage in the recent Nottingham event. It was the first WTA women’s singles final between two British players since 1977.

Wimbledon will begin on July 3 and the draws will be conducted on Monday.

Top-seeded Iga Swiatek recently moved from +400 to +330 in the odds to win her first Wimbledon title. Aryna Sabalenka and defending champion Elena Rybakina are priced at +400 with 2022 finalist Ons Jabeur at +1000 and former champion Petra Kvitova with +1200 championship odds.

A Grass-Court Legend

Venus Williams had a short stay during her first appearance at Wimbledon as she fell to Poland’s Magdalena Grzybowska in three sets.

She would reach the finals in four of the next six Wimbledons and that included back-to-back titles in 2000 and 2001. From 2000-2008, she won five Wimbledon titles. During the Open era, only Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams have won more women’s singles titles at Wimbledon.

She is 90-18 in singles at Wimbledon and also won six doubles titles at Wimbledon and reached the mixed doubles final in 2006. She is 19-6 in three-set singles matches at Wimbledon. She won the 2008 title without dropping a set.

When it comes to breaking down the best players on grass in women’s tennis history, it doesn’t take long for Williams’ name to be mentioned. Still, there are plenty of people ahead of her when looking at the Venus Williams 2023 Wimbledon odds.

Williams Happy to Be in London

Williams played in Wimbledon for 16 straight years before missing the 2013 tournament. There was no event in 2020 as a result of the global pandemic and she didn’t play in last year’s event.

Williams is ranked outside of the top 500 and that shows in the Venus Williams 2023 Wimbledon odds.

Williams recently played at the Rothesay Classic in Birmingham, Great Britain. She topped No. 48 Camila Giorgi in the first round before dropping a tough three-set match to No. 17 Jelena Ostapenko in the Round of 16.

Rest of the American Contingent

Billie Jean King and Chris Evert combined to win five straight Wimbledon titles in the 1970s. Naturalized American citizen Navratilova won Wimbledon nine times before Davenport and the Williams sisters took control at Wimbledon.

This year, four American women are seeded at Wimbledon.

Jessica Pegula is the No. 4 seed, Coco Gauff is seeded seventh, Madison Keys has fallen to the No. 25 seed while Bernarda Pera is seeded 27th.

Gauff (+1800) has the best odds to win Wimbledon among the American women. Pegula comes in at +3300 followed by Keys (+5000), Danielle Collins (+6600), Sloane Stephens (+6600), Amanda Anisimova (+8000) and Sofia Kenin (+10000). Anisimova was the only American women to reach the quarterfinals in 2022 before falling to Simona Halep.

Claire Liu, Catherine Harrison, Pegula, Gauff, Lauren Davis, Ann Li and Alison Riske-Amritraj all won first-round matches along with Anisimova. However, only Anisimova advanced past the third round.

They are all looking to become the first U.S. player to reach the Wimbledon women’s final since Serena Williams lost in the 2019 final.

The last time an American woman other than Venus or Serena Williams reached the finals at Wimbledon came in 2005 when Lindsay Davenport fell to Venus 9-7 in the third set.

Davenport’s title in 1999 is the first for an American women other than the Williams sisters.

When looking at tennis matches today, one of the remaining qualifying matches features Americans Taylor Townsend and Sofia Kenin.

Impact Goes Beyond Tennis

Even though she spent 11 weeks sitting atop the WTA rankings, the greatest accomplishment for Williams when it comes to her connection to Wimbledon happened off the court.

She pushed for equal prize money at Wimbledon and with the aid of some prominent politicians in Great Britain, that became a reality.

In February 2007, Wimbledon announced it would award equal prize money and the French Open followed suit. Williams was credited as the major force in this change being made.

Ironically, the first women’s champion to Wimbledon to be paid as much as the men’s winner was Williams herself in 2007.

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