The tournament was played on
grass courts, with all main draw matches played at the
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, from 3 to 16 July 2023. Qualifying matches were played from 26 to 29 June 2023 at the
Bank of England Sports Ground in
Roehampton. The 2023 Championships was the 136th edition, the 129th staging of the Ladies’ Singles Championship event, the 55th in the
Open Era and the third
Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament was run by the
International Tennis Federation (ITF) and included in the
2023 ATP Tour and the
2023 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category, as well as the 2023 ITF tours for junior and wheelchair competitions respectively. The tournament consisted of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles),
mixed doubles, boys' (under 18 – singles and doubles, under 14 – singles), girls' (under 18 – singles and doubles, under 14 – singles), which are a part of the Grade A category of tournaments for under 18, and singles & doubles events for men's and women's
wheelchair tennis players. This edition features gentlemen's and ladies' invitational doubles competitions and the mixed invitational double draw introduced in the
2022 Wimbledon Championships. The men's doubles competition was changed from best of five sets to best of three sets for all matches. This was the tournament's second edition with a scheduled order of play on the first Sunday during the event, dubbed "Middle Sunday". Prior to the 2022 edition, the tournament had seen only four exceptions to the tradition of withholding competition on Middle Sunday to accommodate delayed matches during championships that were heavily disrupted by rain. The tournament saw the return of Russian and Belarusian tennis players, after
they were controversially banned from the
previous edition due to the
Russian invasion of Ukraine. ==Special events==