Laura Siegemund is a crafty veteran whose variety unsettles opponents on grass, and her late-career Wimbledon quarter-final in 2025 showed how far it can take her. The 2026 swing was much shorter, and she finished 26th in the women’s GTC Grass Rankings with a GTC Grass Rating of 94.
Grass at a glance
- GTC Grass Rating: 94, 26th in the women’s rankings (25th before the season, on 99)
- Pillars: Lawn Form 36, Arsenal 57, Wimbledon 42, Nerve 40
- Nationality: Germany
- Best Wimbledon result: Quarter-final (2025)
- Grass titles: None
- Plays: Right-handed, two-handed backhand
How Laura plays on grass
Siegemund wins by disrupting rhythm. She changes pace constantly, mixes slice with flat drives, uses the drop shot freely and moves forward at every opportunity, drawing on years of top-level doubles. On grass, where the slice stays low and hurried opponents struggle to dig it out, that variety can neutralise far bigger hitters, as it did against Madison Keys in 2025. Her court sense is her best asset: she reads patterns early and is rarely caught out of position.
The limits are power and serve. She rarely wins cheap points on her own delivery, so she has to construct every hold, and against heavy returners that becomes hard work. Her Arsenal score of 57 reflects that imbalance. A Nerve score of 40 points to close matches lost, including two tie-breaks in one match at Eastbourne in 2026.
Grass record
For most of her career Wimbledon brought little. She did not get beyond the second round in her first five appearances, reaching that stage in 2019 and 2024. Her grass singles record outside Wimbledon was modest too, with a Bad Homburg quarter-final in 2021 among the better results.
Then came 2025. Ranked 104th, she beat Peyton Stearns, Leylah Fernandez and 6th seed Madison Keys 6-3, 6-3, then Solana Sierra 6-3, 6-2 to become, at 37, the oldest woman in the Open Era to reach a first Wimbledon quarter-final. Aryna Sabalenka beat her there in three sets.
The 2026 grass season
Her 2026 grass season ran to three events. At Queen’s she won her opening match before 2nd seed Amanda Anisimova beat her in straight sets in the round of 16, which moved her rating from 99 to 100. At Eastbourne she won the first set against Sára Bejlek 6-3 but lost the next two in tie-breaks, 6-7(2), 6-7(3), and the rating returned to 99.
Wimbledon offered no repeat of 2025. Unseeded, she drew 25th seed Elise Mertens in the first round and lost 2-6, 4-6. Mertens went on to reach the quarter-finals. With the points from her 2025 run gone, the rating dropped from 99 to 94. It was a short summer that left her below her pre-season rating, though her grass level in 2025 shows what remains possible when the draw opens.
Looking ahead to 2027
At 38, Siegemund’s grass summers are about choosing her spots. Her game still troubles power players, so the draw matters more for her than for most, and a schedule with one warm-up event and Wimbledon would preserve energy for the matches that count. The realistic target for 2027 is to win rounds at Wimbledon again and to turn close matches, such as the Eastbourne tie-breaks, her way; a repeat of 2025 would need a kind draw.
