Defending champion Krejcikova wins as top seeds buck trend

Wimbledon 2025

Venue: All England Club, June 30 – 13 .

Barbora Krejcikova, the reigning champion, won round two to end the trend of early Wimbledon exits.

Caroline Dolehide, a Czech player, defeated American Caroline Dolehide 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, and Elena Rybakina, a Czech seed, as well as eighth seed Mirra Andreeva, eighth seed Iga Swiatek, eighth seed Emma Navarro, and ninth seed Elena Rybakina.

Nine top-10 players from the men’s and women’s singles draws exited the women’s singles draw in the first three days, leaving 16 seeded players out.

Only one of the five top-seeded players, Aryna Sabalenka in this case, has advanced to the third round of the women’s singles at a Grand Slam event for the second time in the Open era.

At the end of the fortnight, the women’s draw is open for a potential surprise winner with the opportunity to win the Venus Rosewater Dish, with different players competing for each of the previous seven women’s singles titles.

The top seeds made it through SW19 without incident on Thursday, showing that this mindset has been adopted in the locker room.

After teenager Andreeva defeated Italian Lucia Bronzetti 6-1 7-6 (7-4) and American Navarro cruised past Veronika Kudermetova 6-1 6-2, the former champion Rybakina defeated Greek world number 77 Maria Sakkari in an impressive 6-3 6-1 victory over Greek world number 77 Maria Sakkari.

Swiatek, a five-time Grand Slam champion, defeated American Caty McNally, 208, to place her in round three.

World No. 10 Navarro said after her win that “it is kind of a everyone’s tournament” and that she hopes to be a part of it as well.

However, the defending champion Krejcikova will follow her with a challenging task.

After missing much of the season with a back injury, last year’s winner has had a turbulent six months and was only playing her eighth game of the year on Thursday.

She was forced to leave Eastbourne last week with a thigh problem, but she expressed her joy at returning to Wimbledon after her opening-round victory. She appears to be alive at the All England Club with a match played on grass courts.

After opening play on Centre Court on Tuesday, she returned from 3-1 to win four games in a row against Dolehide on the smaller, more intimate court two.

After Dolehide’s world number 62 struck, Krejcikova responded by obtaining the crucial break before completing the match.

She responded, “Definitely a huge relief.”