In pictures: The story of Wimbledon 2024

A selection of the best pictures from the Wimbledon fortnight.

Carlos Alcaraz is the Wimbledon champion again (Mike Egerton/PA) (PA Wire)

Carlos Alcaraz successfully defended his men’s Wimbledon title while Barbora Krejcikova made it eight different women’s winners in as many years.

Here, the PA news agency tells the story of the Championships through pictures.

Heather Watson was the first of 10 British first-round singles casualties (Zac Goodwin/PA) (PA Wire)

But there were eight British singles winners who progressed, including Sonay Kartal (pictured) who stunned Sorana Cirstea to reach the second round (Jordan Pettitt/PA) (PA Wire)

Andy Murray pulled out of the singles due to injury – but he entered the doubles in his final planned appearance at the Championships (Jordan Pettitt/PA) (PA Wire)

Marketa Vondrousova (pictured) became only the second reigning singles champion to lose in the first round as she was beaten by Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (Mike Egerton/PA) (PA Wire)

World number one Jannik Sinner (left) beat fellow Italian Matteo Berrettini in a second-round thriller under the Centre Court roof (Jordan Pettitt/PA) (PA Wire)

An impressive Wimbledon singles run by Lily Miyazaki (pictured) was brutally ended by Daria Kasatkina 6-0 6-0 (Aaron Chown/PA) (PA Wire)

Harriet Dart (pictured) beat British number one Katie Boulter in the first of two all-British battles on day four (John Walton/PA) (PA Wire)

An inspired Cameron Norrie won the second battle of the Britons as he beat British number one Jack Draper (John Walton/PA) (PA Wire)

Britain’s Jacob Fearnley (right) took a set off Novak Djokovic in his second-round defeat (Mike Egerton/PA) (PA Wire)

Andy Murray and Jamie Murray suffered an emotional doubles defeat in what turned out to be Andy’s final Wimbledon appearance (John Walton/PA) (PA Wire)

Andy Murray was celebrated on his final Centre Court appearance (Jordan Pettitt/PA) (PA Wire)

Emma Raducanu (pictured) beat ninth seed Maria Sakkari as she reached the fourth round for the second time (Zac Goodwin/PA) (PA Wire)

But Raducanu cited a wrist injury the following day when she pulled out of the mixed doubles and denied Murray another appearance at Wimbledon (Mike Egerton/PA) (PA Wire)

A regular feature of the fortnight…. (Mike Egerton/PA) (PA Wire)

Back-to-back finalist Ons Jabeur boots the ball into the net during her third-round defeat to Elina Svitolina (Aaron Chown/PA) (PA Wire)

Emma Raducanu needed treatment for an injury during her dramatic three-set defeat to qualifier Lulu Sun (Mike Egerton/PA) (PA Wire)

Novak Djokovic clashed with Centre Court spectators, wishing them a “goooood night” after he felt chants for his last-16 opponent Holger Rune were boos towards him (Mike Egerton/PA) (PA Wire)

Taylor Fritz (right) and Alexander Zverev have a long talk at the net, with the beaten German saying later he had complained about members of the American’s team (Jordan Pettitt/PA) (PA Wire)

Jannik Sinner exited the tournament after struggling with illness during his quarter-final defeat to Daniil Medvedev (Zac Goodwin/PA) (PA Wire)

The Queen took part in a Mexican Wave after moving to Court One on the day Alex De Minaur’s withdrawal left the Centre Court schedule a little light (Jordan Pettitt/PA) (PA Wire)

Taylor Fritz’s run was ended in the quarter-finals by impressive Italian Lorenzo Musetti (Jordan Pettitt/PA) (PA Wire)

Donna Vekic could not keep the tears away during her thrilling semi-final defeat to Jasmine Paolini (Jordan Pettitt/PA) (PA Wire)

Paolini had never won at Wimbledon before but produced heroics to reach a second successive grand slam singles final (Jordan Pettitt/PA) (PA Wire)

Novak Djokovic’s win over Lorenzo Musetti set up a repeat Wimbledon final with Carlos Alcaraz (Aaron Chown/PA) (PA Wire)

Barbora Krejcikova became the eighth different winner of the women’s singles title in the last eight Championships (John Walton/PA) (PA Wire)

Henry Patten (right) became the third British winner of the men’s doubles in the Open era with his tense final success alongside Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara (Mike Egerton/PA) (PA Wire)

Alfie Hewett finally won the Wimbledon wheelchair singles title to complete the career Grand Slam (John Walton/PA) (PA Wire)

Carlos Alcaraz demolished Novak Djokovic to win the men’s singles title (Aaron Chown/PA) (PA Wire)