Preview: Wimbledon

Wimbledon begins on Monday and as with each of the Grand Slam tournaments on the tennis calendar you can play our fantasy game at Superbru! If you're new to our tennis games then here's a quick run-through of how things will work along with some info on this year's Championships that may prove helpful for your picks.

Bands

As is the case in our 'Superstars' or '5-a-side' games in other tournaments such as Super Rugby, the Premier League and the World Cup, the aim of the game when playing Wimbledon at Superbru is to pick the player you believe will be most successful from four different lists of players known as 'bands'.

Essentially, rather than having a full list of the many players that will be competing at Wimbledon this year, we draw up four bands of players containing the top seeds for both the men's and women's title. By selecting one player from each list, you are left with a four-person team for a given round and you will score points based on how well each of those players get on.

The bands for Rounds One and Two of Wimbledon can be seen below. Note: You are allowed to pick a fresh team of players for each and every round of the tournament meaning it is sometimes best to pick players you are most confident will perform best in the particular match they have in a round rather than always picking the player you believe will win the overall Championship in every single round.



The bands are now open and ready for you to pick your players for Rounds One and Two due to them being so close together. Bands for Round Three will open once Round One has been completed.

Scoring

The game is designed to reward players who win the most comfortably in each round, hence why looking at each player's opposition is a good idea. Players get their points from two different factors:

Net sets won - 3 points per set: That is, the number of sets a player wins a match by. For instance, if Roger Federer defeats Novak Djokovic by 3 sets to 1 he would be awarded six points as he won by 2 sets.

Net games won - 1 point per game won in a set won by the player: The same thing applies. Going back to the Roger Federer example, if he had beaten Djokovic 7-6, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 then he would receive an additional 9 points for the number of games he won each set by (1 point in the first set, 6 in the third and 2 in the fourth).

The 2018 Championships

The seedings for this year's Wimbledon were released yesterday and saw 2017 winner Roger Federer named number one seed for the men's Championship while Simona Halep is the top seed for the women's tournament. Garbiñe Muguruza won the women's title last year and is the third seed this year while seven-time champion Serena Williams has also controversially been named as the 25th seed despite being ranked 183rd in the world as she continues her comeback from giving birth to her first child last year.

The bands in our game contain the players seeded from 1-16 for either Championship and will only change to include other players once certain seeds are knocked out. In the event of a Band One player being knocked out, the top seed from Band Two will replace them while the 17th overall seed would go into Band Two as a replacement and so on.

Click here to play Wimbledon at Superbru

We hope you enjoy playing our Wimbledon game for this year's tournament and feel free to ask any questions you may have in the comments! Be sure to get your leagues set up and invite friends and family members to get involved this weekend as the action begins on Monday morning.