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Wimbledon 2025
Venue: All England Club, June 30 – 13 .
When the Grand Slam begins on Monday, Carlos Alcaraz will begin his bid for a third successive title.
Can anyone stop him, then?
Novak Djokovic, the Spanish world number two, lost to him in the previous two men’s finals on Centre Court at SW19.
The 22-year-old could become only the fifth player to win three Wimbledon men’s singles titles in a row, joining Pete Sampras, Roger Federer, and Djokovic.
Alcaraz won the Queen’s title after a spectacular victory over Jannik Sinner in the French Open final.
The history-chasing hero Novak Djokovic
Before losing a five-set thriller to Alcaraz in 2023, Djokovic had won four Wimbledon titles in a row.
A year later, Alcaraz was forced to put Djokovic in the dust to once more deny him a record-equaling eighth men’s title.
Since drawing level with Margaret Court at the US Open in 2023, Djokovic is still on the verge of winning her 25th major singles title.
Alcaraz and Sinner have won the last six slams combined, and seven of the last eight since Alcaraz won his first Wimbledon title two years ago, bringing a new era to men’s tennis.
The #1 person in the world is Jannik Sinner.
After taking a two-set lead and shoving away three championship points in the fourth set of what turned out to be a five-and-a-half-hour epic, Sinner was devastated by his defeat at Roland Garros.
In the past three years, he has advanced to Wimbledon’s semifinals, where he was most successful, before losing to Djokovic in 2023.
However, the world number one’s most recent competitive preparations were slackened by a surprise second-round defeat to Alexander Bublik at the Halle Open this month.
Sinner, who was given a three-month doping suspension earlier this year, has maintained his grip on the top ranking for the past 12 months.
The unpredictably terrifying threat of Alexander Bublik
Bublik’s revival is gaining momentum.
After losing in the third round of Wimbledon last year, the Kazakh’s career had stagnated to the point where he considered quitting.
Bublik lost eight of his first ten matches in 2025, falling to 82nd place in the world, but his coach’s suggestion of a Hangover-style reset in Las Vegas, which made reference to the comedy film from the year, seems to have had a positive impact.
The unpredictably unpredictable Bublik won the Halle Open to advance to the top 30 in the world after making his first Grand Slam singles quarter-final with a stellar run at the French Open.
The nearly man, Daniil Medvedev
Can Medvedev move up this year after semi-finalizing in each of the previous two years?
Medvedev won the US Open in 2021, but he has lost his five other major finals, making it just six of the six men’s players to do so.
The former world no. 1 has a strong track record at Wimbledon despite having won six major titles in the Australian Open and US Open.
In the final four sets of last year’s meeting on Centre Court, he was defeated by eventual champion Alcaraz, who had previously won the first set before becoming overpowered.
The dark horse is Jiri Lehecka.
Lehecka defeated Draper in the final to send her to Queen’s, where he showed admirable resistance in a three-set defeat to Alcaraz.
After winning his first eight matches of the year, the 23-year-old won the Brisbane title before falling to Djokovic in the fourth round of the Australian Open, earning a career-high 22-year-old rank.
He was unable to make it to the Madrid Open semi-finals last year because of a bad back injury, which ultimately prevented him from playing at Wimbledon.
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