2017 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles

Garbiñe Muguruza defeated Venus Williams in the final, 7–5, 6–0 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships. It was her first Wimbledon title, and second and last major singles title overall. She dropped just one set during the tournament, to Angelique Kerber in the fourth round.

Serena Williams was the two-time reigning champion, but did not participate due to pregnancy.

Venus Williams was the oldest player to reach the final since Martina Navratilova in 1994, and played her 100th Wimbledon singles match in the quarterfinals; it was her first Wimbledon final since 2009 and (by virtue of her run to that year's earlier Australian Open final) marked the first time she reached multiple major finals in a calendar year since 2003. Johanna Konta became the first Briton to reach the semifinals since Virginia Wade in 1978, and Magdaléna Rybáriková became the first Slovak to reach the semifinals. The tournament was the 17th consecutive women's singles major to feature a first-time semifinalist (Rybáriková), dating back to 2013 Wimbledon.

Despite losing in the second round, Karolína Plíšková attained the WTA No. 1 singles ranking, after Angelique Kerber and Simona Halep lost in the fourth round and quarterfinals, respectively.

This tournament marked the major main draw debuts of future US Open champion Bianca Andreescu and Australian Open champion and world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka. They lost to Kristína Kučová and Carina Witthöft in the first and second rounds, respectively. This was also the first Wimbledon main draw appearance for 2023 champion Markéta Vondroušová; she lost in the first round to Peng Shuai.

Seeds
• 🇩🇪 Angelique Kerber (fourth round)

• 🇷🇴 Simona Halep (quarterfinals)

• 🇨🇿 Karolína Plíšková (second round)

• 🇺🇦 Elina Svitolina (fourth round)

• Caroline Wozniacki (fourth round)

• 🇬🇧 Johanna Konta (semifinals)

• 🇷🇺 Svetlana Kuznetsova (quarterfinals)

• 🇸🇰 Dominika Cibulková (third round)

• 🇵🇱 Agnieszka Radwańska (fourth round)

• 🇺🇸 Venus Williams (final)

• 🇨🇿 Petra Kvitová (second round)

• 🇫🇷 Kristina Mladenovic (second round)

•  Jeļena Ostapenko (quarterfinals)

• 🇪🇸 Garbiñe Muguruza (champion)

• 🇷🇺 Elena Vesnina (second round)

• 🇷🇺 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (first round)

• 🇺🇸 Madison Keys (second round)

•  Anastasija Sevastova (second round)

•  Timea Bacsinszky (third round)

• 🇦🇺 Daria Gavrilova (first round)

• 🇫🇷 Caroline Garcia (fourth round)

• 🇨🇿 Barbora Strýcová (second round)

•  Kiki Bertens (first round)

• 🇺🇸 CoCo Vandeweghe (quarterfinals)

• 🇪🇸 Carla Suárez Navarro (second round)

•  Mirjana Lučić-Baroni (first round)

•  Ana Konjuh (fourth round)

• 🇺🇸 Lauren Davis (first round)

• 🇷🇺 Daria Kasatkina (second round)

• 🇨🇳 Zhang Shuai (first round)

• 🇮🇹 Roberta Vinci (first round)

• 🇨🇿 Lucie Šafářová (second round)

Seeded players
Seeds are based on the WTA rankings as of 26 June 2017.

Rank and points before are as of 3 July 2017. Because the tournament takes place one week later than in 2016, points defending includes results from both the 2016 Wimbledon Championships and the tournaments from the week of 11 July 2016 (Bucharest and Gstaad).

Withdrawals
The following players would have been seeded, but withdrew from the event.

Wild cards
• 🇬🇧 Katie Boulter

• 🇬🇧 Naomi Broady

• 🇰🇿 Zarina Diyas

• 🇺🇸 Bethanie Mattek-Sands

• 🇬🇧 Laura Robson

• 🇬🇧 Heather Watson

Protected ranking
• 🇧🇾 Victoria Azarenka (6)

• 🇩🇪 Sabine Lisicki (92)

• 🇸🇰 Magdaléna Rybáriková (108)

• 🇺🇸 Sloane Stephens (26)

Qualifiers
The qualifying competitions take place in Bank of England Sports Centre, Roehampton started from 26 June 2017 and to be scheduled to end on 29 June 2017. However, due to heavy rain on the second day, it has now extended to 30 June 2017. • 🇨🇦 Françoise Abanda

• 🇨🇦 Bianca Andreescu

• 🇷🇺 Anna Blinkova

• 🇳🇿 Marina Erakovic

• 🇺🇸 Irina Falconi

• Polona Hercog

• 🇹🇳 Ons Jabeur

•  Petra Martić

• 🇷🇺 Anastasia Potapova

• 🇦🇺 Arina Rodionova

• 🇧🇾 Aryna Sabalenka

• 🇧🇪 Alison Van Uytvanck

Withdrawals
• † 🇺🇸 Serena Williams (2) → replaced by Richèl Hogenkamp (105)

• † 🇺🇸 Vania King (100) → replaced by 🇷🇴 Ana Bogdan (106)

• & 🇩🇪 Laura Siegemund (32) → replaced by 🇲🇪 Danka Kovinić (107)

• & 🇦🇺 Ajla Tomljanović (75 PR) → replaced by Chang Kai-chen (108)

• & 🇰🇿 Yaroslava Shvedova (51) → replaced by 🇸🇰 Magdaléna Rybáriková (108 PR)

• & 🇦🇺 Samantha Stosur (24) → replaced by Hsieh Su-wei (109) † – not included on entry list & – withdrew from entry list

Retirements

 * 🇺🇸 Bethanie Mattek-Sands
 * 🇷🇺 Anastasia Potapova