Wimbledon 2025 is here, so grab the peaches, cream and Pimm’s.
Arguably the most prestigious tournament in the sport, 2025’s third Grand Slam starts on Monday, 30 June and runs until Sunday, 13 July.
Carlos Alcaraz is the red-hot favourite to make it three titles in three years, but Novak Djokovic is always lurking.
Alcaraz is hot off Roland Garros, Queens wins
22-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz is undoubtedly the man to beat at Wimbledon in 2025. He’s won 18 matches on the trot this year, including titles at Roland Garros and Queens, the warm-up event to Wimbledon. That Roland Garros win still reverberates around the tennis world; an epic five-set triumph against Jannik Sinner spanning five hours and 29 minutes. Alcaraz came from two sets down, saving three consecutive match points deep into the fourth.
Wimbledon first round highlights
- Carlos Alcaraz, on a quest to make it a three-peat of titles, will play the talented, sometimes temperamental Italian veteran Fabio Fognini.
- World Number 1 Jannik Sinner faces compatriot Luca Nardi.
- Fourth-seeded Englishman Jack Draper has a tricky clash with dirt-balling Argentine Sebastian Baez.
- Seven-time champion and finalist every year since 2018, the legendary Novak Djokovic, meets Frenchman Alex Muller.
- 22-year-old home favourite and poster girl Emma Raducanu meets teenage Welsh star Mimi Xu.
- Roland Garros winner Coco Gauff squares up against big-hitting Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska.
- There’s a potential last dance for two-time champion Petra Kvitova against the scrappy 10th-seeded American Emma Navarro.
- 2022 champion, the big-serving and smooth-striking Elena Rybakina, has a glamorous tie with Russian-Armenian star Elina Avanesyan.
Who’s your pick to go all the way in 2025?
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