Magda Linette opens Wimbledon against Mirra Andriejewa in the first round, and the matchup comes with a familiar pattern: it will be their fifth head-to-head meeting. Linette enters with a 7-10 record at Wimbledonie, while Andriejewa arrives after winning their most recent meeting in Doha in February.
Their four previous matches all ended in two sets. That is the sharpest reason this opener looks difficult for Linette: she has already seen Andriejewa control short matches, and their latest meeting again went the Russian’s way after a difficult start for the Polish player.
Wimbledon in 2026
The match was scheduled for about 17:30 on the first day of Wimbledon 2026, following Ostapenko against Dart and Cilić against Miedwiediew. Linette’s own recent record at Wimbledon adds weight to the draw. She lost in the first round in 2024 to Elina Switolina and in 2025 to Elsa Jacquemot.
Andriejewa brings a very different recent profile. She had already won Roland Garros by beating Maja Chwalińska in the final, then lost her opening grass-court match in Bad Homburg to Jekaterina Aleksandrowa by 3:6, 4:6. That result does not erase the larger edge she carries into Wimbledon, where she reached the quarterfinals the previous year.
Magda Linette and Mirra Andriejewa
The pair first played in Madrid in 2023, when Andriejewa won 6:3, 6:3. Linette answered at the turn of the Olympic tournament in Paris with a 6:3, 6:4 win, but the balance shifted again in Beijing, where Andriejewa beat her in 74 minutes and dropped only four games.
That history leaves Linette with a clear opening but little margin. She has beaten Andriejewa before, yet the latest results, the two-set pattern, and her 7-10 Wimbledon record point in the same direction: this is a first-round match she has to solve quickly, not one she can afford to let settle into Andriejewa’s rhythm.
