Wimbledon 2025: Dates, Players, Odds (and Weather)

Wimbledon. The crown jewel of the tennis world. Two weeks of strawberries with cream before the people’s princess descends from the stands to close the ceremony and hand the winners their spoils.

In the meantime, tennis. Lots of it.

But not just any tennis. Wimbledon is the only grass-court Grand Slam and is unofficially recognized as the closest thing to a world championship in the sport. Despite novelties introduced in 2025 (electronic line calling instead of line judges, for example), it’s still the same tour we know and love. Albeit a bit hotter this year.

When Does Wimbledon Start?

For singles, Wimbledon takes place between June 30th and July 13th at All England Club. Men’s and ladies’ doubles start two days later, on Wednesday, while mixed doubles begin on Friday, July 4th.

The Wimbledon main draw is complete, having taken place June 27th, 10pm local time.

Who Won Wimbledon 2024?

Last year, Carlos Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic in a rematch of the previous year’s finals to win his second consecutive Wimbledon title. In the women’s finals, Barbora Krejčíková won her first in a three-set thriller against Jasmine Paolini.

The 2025 Favorites

Now, let’s get to the fun part and line up the favourites for the 147th Wimbledon, shall we?

Carlos Alcaraz, Jannick Sinner

Much is made about the duopoly of Alcaraz and Sinner, and yeah, the two men threaten to dominate the ATP for years to come.

Alcaraz looks unstoppable at the moment. The Spaniard is on a two-title winning streak in South London, having also won Roland Garros twice and trying to match Borg & Graf by winning the Roland Garros-Wimbledon double twice in a row. Alcaraz arrives at All England Club on an 18-game winning streak—the longest of his career—and the No.1 favourite to lift the crown. With outright odds of 2.25 at Ybets, Alcaraz opens the tour against Fognini.

Sinner is the top seed at Wimbledon, but bookies project the Italian as the second favourite. The world’s No.1 is looking for his fourth major crown but has yet to lift the WC19 trophy. The furthest he got was the 2023 semifinals, where he got stopped by Novak.

En route to the finals and a likely clash with Alcaraz, Jannick will probably have to face fellow Italian Lorenzo Musetti in the quarterfinals and Novak Djokovic again in the semis. A prospect all the more challenging considering the news that fitness coach Marco Panichi and physiotherapist Ulises Badio left the Sinner camp. Those Ybets odds of 2.75 are likely to go up so it’s worth waiting a day or two.

Novak Djokovic, Jack Draper

As the most successful tennis player in the history of the sport, the Serbian is looking for a way to round off his GOAT career with another slam. Australia seems the logical choice, but Wimbledon’s fast court and shorter points might do well for the 38-year-old 7-time champ.

The 5th seeding means that he’ll have to take both Sinner (who beat him recently in Paris) and Alcaraz en route to the Wimbledon title, but we’ve seen him tackle a lot worse. Then again, Djokovic has only one ATP 250 trophy since his Olympic heroics and remains the third-favourite player here with Betpanda giving him generous odds of 6.70.

Novak is on a quarterfinal crash course with British No. 1 Jack Draper. British media being as they are, you’ll hear the name often repeated across all major outlets—for good reason, though. The 23-year-old 6-foot-4 lefthander reached the semis of the US Open and Queen’s, winning the Indian Wells in between.

The young superstar shows irresistible promise and is the fourth favourite for the chip (12.00 at Betpanda). But all that Draper-ing is putting the weight of the nation on his shoulders, as did on Andy Murray’s when he became the first Brit to win SW19 in 77 years.

But he was Scottish, so…

Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina, Cori Gauff, & More

On the ladies’ side of the Wimbledon draw, things are looking way more competitive. World’s No 1. Aryna Sabalenka is also the No. 1 favourite to run away with the award. World No.2 Coco Gauff is third in the pecking order (8.50 at Betpanda), while 15th seed Elena Rybakina sits somewhere in the middle.

Barbora Krejčíková, an unlikely winner of 2024 Wimbledon, starts her title defence against Filipino 20-year-old Alexandra Eala. Barbora would be an unlikely winner again should she repeat the stunt, as Jackbit has her at mighty 65.00.

Petra Kvitova

I feel like the two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova deserves more than a passing mention. Kvitova has been awarded a wild card after giving birth during the last tournament. The Czech was the only non-British to be awarded a wild card on the women’s side of the draw, and I wish her the best of luck. She’s 175.00 at Jackbit to win btw, so there’s an idea.

And the Weather?

Wimbledon weather has been an X-factor—a wild card, as it were—for many a match on the tour. Some players prefer it hot, some like a more overcast prospect, and this year favours the sunny side.

Namely, “the variable cloud and sunny intervals” of today will make way for sizzling heat as we approach June 30th. At a projected 36 degrees Celsius, we’re looking at the hottest start of SW19 in the tour’s 147-year-long history. The UK “Heat Rule” means that some matches might get suspended, with a 10-minute break between sets two and three likely to be in effect during the first week.

Will that help or hinder (and who)—it remains to be seen.