Wimbledon 2026 Day 11 Predictions: Women’s Semi-Finals, Order of Play & Best Bets
A new Wimbledon women’s champion is guaranteed — all four semi-finalists are chasing a maiden Grand Slam, the 10th year running the Venus Rosewater Dish goes to a first-time SW19 winner. Wednesday tied off the bottom half: Marta Kostyuk brushed aside Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 6-2 without facing a break point, and Linda Nosková came through a scrappier test against Elise Mertens 6-3, 7-5. They join Coco Gauff, who dug out Jessica Pegula 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday, and Karolína Muchová, into her first Wimbledon last four after ending Naomi Osaka’s run 7-6(4), 6-4. But the story of the day is being written a round later — and it is British.
Below: Thursday’s Centre Court order of play, previews and a best bet for both women’s semis, then the Arthur Fery fairytale that has SW19 believing again. Looking for a multi-bet slip? See our Wimbledon Day 11 acca tips.
Wimbledon 2026 Day 11 order of play
Centre Court (from 1:30pm BST)
- Coco Gauff [7] v Karolína Muchová [10] — women’s singles semi-final
- Marta Kostyuk [12] v Linda Nosková [9] — women’s singles semi-final (not before 3:30pm BST)
The women’s last four owns Centre Court on Thursday. The men’s semis — Jannik Sinner v Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev v Britain’s Arthur Fery — follow on Friday.
Coco Gauff v Karolína Muchová preview
Gauff leads the head-to-head 6-1, but the one that got away is fresh: Muchová beat her in three sets in the Stuttgart quarter-finals earlier this year, and this is their first meeting on grass. The American’s return and movement have carried her through a draw that never quite caught fire, while Muchová’s slice-and-net variety is tailor-made for the surface. If the Czech’s body holds — always the caveat — this is a genuine coin-flip; the market has it almost exactly there, Gauff around 9/10 and Muchová close to even money.
Best bet: Coco Gauff to win, ~9/10 with Bet365. Her return-first game punishes second serves and she has the big-match reps neither of the bottom-half pair can match. Approx odds.
Marta Kostyuk v Linda Nosková preview
The breakout story of the fortnight against the coldest hand in the draw. Nosková has toppled seeds in every round to reach a maiden Slam semi; Kostyuk hasn’t dropped serve in her last two matches and dismantled Paolini without conceding a single break point. Their only prior meeting was ruthless — Kostyuk won 7-6(1), 6-0 in Madrid — and on this evidence the Ukrainian’s flatter, earlier ball is the tougher watch. Expect heavy hitting and a first-set tussle before the experience of a second straight deep major run (she also made the last four at Roland Garros) tells.
Best bet: Marta Kostyuk to win, ~4/5 with Paddy Power. The cleaner ball-striker, the calmer nerves, and the only head-to-head data point all pull the same way. Approx odds.
Arthur Fery: the wild card writing British history
Forget the seedings for a moment. The name everyone at the All England Club is saying out loud belongs to a 23-year-old ranked No. 114 in the world who needed a wild card just to be in the draw — and who is now one win from a Wimbledon final. Arthur Fery has never been inside the world’s top 100. On Friday he plays for a place in the biggest match in tennis.
His route has been the stuff of a scriptwriter’s fever dream. In the third round he was two sets to one and 4-1 down — a double break — against Zizou Bergs before hauling himself back to win 2-6, 7-5, 2-6, 7-6(3), 7-6(10-5), the last two sets settled in tie-breaks. He saw off the vastly more decorated Grigor Dimitrov in the fourth round, then produced the performance of his life to beat Flavio Cobolli 6-4, 7-6(4), 6-0 in the quarter-final, running away with the third set as the Centre Court roar carried him home.
How rare is this? Fery is the lowest-ranked man to reach a Wimbledon singles semi-final since a certain World No. 125 named Goran Ivanišević — who, on a wild card in 2001, went the whole way and lifted the trophy, the only man in history to win a Grand Slam as a wild card. So yes: it has been done, and done gloriously. That is the company Fery now keeps.
For British tennis, the wait for a home run this deep has been long and painful. Fery is only the fifth British man in the Open Era to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals — after Roger Taylor, Tim Henman, Andy Murray and Cameron Norrie — and just the second since Murray last carried the nation’s hopes here. A generation raised on “Henmania” and Murray’s two SW19 titles has waited years for a fresh face to belong on the second Thursday. It has arrived from the unlikeliest place: a wild card who has already rocketed 78 spots to a projected career-high of around No. 36 in the live rankings, whatever happens next.
Standing in his way on Friday is Alexander Zverev, the Roland Garros champion and world No. 2 — a monstrous step up in class, and a firm favourite. But this is a fortnight in which Fery has been favourite in precisely none of his matches and keeps winning anyway. If you fancy the fairytale to run one round further, Sky Bet is the place to back Fery to reach the final. Approx odds — full men’s semi-final preview and best bets to follow on Friday. The full story of his run is in our feature: Arthur Fery, the wild card writing British Wimbledon history.
How to watch Wimbledon 2026
Full UK and international broadcast details, streams and daily start times are in our how to watch Wimbledon 2026 guide. For the outright markets — men’s and women’s winner — see our Wimbledon 2026 outright betting tips, and catch up on Wednesday’s quarter-finals in our Day 10 predictions.
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More Wimbledon 2026 Coverage
All of our Wimbledon 2026 coverage in one place — daily previews, accas and the essentials:
- Wimbledon 2026 hub
- How to watch Wimbledon 2026
- Wimbledon 2026 draw
- Wimbledon 2026 outright betting tips
- Wimbledon 2026 Day 11 acca tips
- Arthur Fery: the wild card writing British Wimbledon history
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