Alcaraz & Sabalenka among Wimbledon title hopefuls

Wimbledon 2025

Venue: All England Club, June 30 – 13 .

The process has begun. Waiting for the pristine grass courts. The strawberries have been picked. The waiting list is growing.

Wimbledon returns on Monday after all the waiting is over.

For the 2025 Championships, the best tennis players in the world are set to compete for one of the sport’s biggest prizes at SW19.

After defeating Novak Djokovic in the previous two finals on Centre Court, Carlos Alcaraz will now compete for a third successive Wimbledon title.

Although only 22 years old, Spaniard Alcaraz has already won five slams, winning a two-set victory over world number one Jannik Sinner in one of the greatest French Open finals ever held in June.

Djokovic, who defeated Margaret Court to win the US Open in 2023, is still on the verge of winning his 25th major singles title.

With Wimbledon the only Grand Slam in which he hasn’t yet entered the final, Italy’s Sinner hopes to recover from his agonizing Paris breakup.

His best SW19 run since his quarter-final defeat last year was a 2023 defeat to Djokovic.

A second-round defeat to the in-form Alexander Bublik, who might be a threat after his title triumph there, cut him off from his preparations this time.

No player has ever won back-to-back women’s singles titles at Wimbledon since Serena Williams won it for the seventh time and for the second year in a row in 2016.

Barbora Krejcikova won the Venus Rosewater Dish title last year, following in the footsteps of her Czech compatriot Marketa Vondrousova, who had won it in a year without a seed.

Aryna Sabalenka, the world’s number one, has yet to reach the Wimbledon showpiece match despite having reached the final five of her six slams.

Coco Gauff, the current champion of Roland Garros, is one of the main contenders, but she has never advanced past the fourth round in London.

The Italian world number four, Jasmine Paolini, from the previous year, will look to improve this year.

Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, and former world number one Iga Swiatek, who won with force in Bad Homburg on Friday, will also attempt to challenge.

Emma Raducanu, the reigning British number one, joins Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal, both of whom have recently spent time in the top 50 of the world.

Henry Patten, a British tennis player, will try to defend his last-year victory over Finland’s Harri Heliovaara.

Only Marcelo Arevalo from El Salvador and Mate Pavic from Croatia are the top-ranked pairing in the world, making them the second-ranked pair in the world.

The top-ranked pair in the world, Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova, are the reigning champions of the women’s doubles.

Alfie Hewett won the men’s singles title with compatriot Gordon Reid after winning the men’s doubles title at home for the first time last year, completing a career grand prix.

Hewett’s main rivals, Japan’s Tokito Oda and the second-place finisher Martin de la Puente, are attempting to defend the singles.

Dutch legend Diede de Groot will aim to add to her record 23 singles titles as she fights for a fifth straight Wimbledon title.