Wimbledon 2025 Preview: Tips, Predictions, Key Contenders & Dark Horses

The third Grand Slam of the 2025 season takes the players to the hallowed turf of Wimbledon, where Carlos Alcaraz will bid to become only the fifth male in the Open era to be crowned All England Club champion in three consecutive years.

In the women’s event, Barbora Krejcikova is the defending champion, with the Czech woman taking the title a year on from her compatriot Marketa Vondrousova.

While the men’s competition is seen as a straight shootout by many between Jannik Sinner and Alcaraz, the women’s renewal is as tough to call as ever and there have been eight different winners in as many years.

Wimbledon 2025 Tips and Predictions

First Round Matches to Watch

Wimbledon 2025 Men’s Singles Favourites

Wimbledon 2025 Women’s Singles Favourites

Data-Led Wimbledon 2025 Predictions & Analytics

Wimbledon 2025 Outright Men’s Singles Prediction

Wimbledon 2025 Outright Women’s Singles Prediction

Dark Horse Tips

Who Wins Wimbledon 2025?

Wimbledon 2025 Tips and Predictions

Outright Men’s Singles Prediction: Carlos Alcaraz (5/4)
Outright Women’s Singles Prediction: Marketa Vondrousova (12/1)
Dark Horse Tips: Taylor Fritz (33/1), Jasmine Paolini (22/1)

First Round Matches to Watch

• Gael Monfils vs Ugo Humbert
• Jack Draper vs Sebastian Baez
• Jacob Fearnley vs Joao Fonseca
• Paula Badosa vs Katie Boulter
• Petra Kvitova vs Emma Navarro
• Emma Raducanu vs Mimi Xu

There are a number of standout matches in the opening round at Wimbledon, with plenty of those involving British contenders.

There is an all-British affair in the women’s draw as former US Open champion Emma Raducanu meets teenage wildcard Mimi Xu, while Katie Boulter faces a stern test against Spanish ninth seed Paula Badosa.

Men’s British number one Jack Draper has a tricky assignment against Argentina's 38th-ranked Sebastian Baez, while fellow home hope Jacob Fearnley could have also had a kinder opener as he takes on highly-touted Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca.

The all-French affair between former world number six Gael Monfils and 18th seed Ugo Humbert is sure to grab plenty of attention, while in the women’s draw two-time winner Petra Kvitova faces a mouthwatering showdown with last season’s quarter-finalist Emma Navarro.

Wimbledon 2025 Men’s Singles Favourites

The men’s draw is dominated by two names, Alcaraz and Sinner, who did battle in an epic five-set French Open final earlier this month and have won the last six Grand Slam titles between them.

Alcaraz, having come out on top in that topsy-turvey final in Paris, is favoured by the bookmakers at 5/4 as he bids to win a third straight Wimbledon title, while Sinner is 7/4 to exact his revenge and reign supreme at the All England Club for the first time.

Other contenders include 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic, who is 5/1 to win Wimbledon for an eighth time.

Draper is next in the betting at 10/1 as he attempts to delight his passionate home crowd with a maiden Grand Slam crown, and it is 25/1 bar the big four.

Wimbledon 2025 Women’s Singles Favourites

Women’s world number one Aryna Sabalenka heads the Wimbledon betting at 11/4 as she seeks a fourth Grand Slam title and her first victory on grass.

Kazakh Elena Rybakina, crowned champion in 2022, is considered a 5/1 chance, while recent French Open heroine Coco Gauff can be backed at 6/1 for further glory at Wimbledon.

Meanwhile, five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek is 8/1 to conquer Wimbledon for the first time, with teenage talent Mirra Andreeva and 2023 winner Marketa Vondrousova both available at 12/1.

Data-Led Wimbledon 2025 Predictions & Analytics

• The last seven women’s Wimbledon titles were won by first-time winners of the event, with Czech Republic producing the last two in Marketa Vondrousova and Barbora Krejcikova.
• Carlos Alcaraz is bidding to become only the fifth man in the Open era to win Wimbledon in three successive seasons and he has lost only one of his last 26 grass-court matches.
• Eighteen of the last 20 finalists in the men’s draw were ranked in the world’s top nine.
• Eight of the last 10 women’s Wimbledon winners had won a Grand Slam title, the exceptions being Elena Rybakina (2022) & Marketa Vondrousova (2023).
• In terms of lead-up events, seven men's finalists from Queen’s Club have gone on to make the final of Wimbledon in the past decade.

Wimbledon 2025 Outright Men’s Singles Prediction

It is really hard to look beyond the obvious, with Alcaraz and Sinner expected to continue to wreak havoc on the opposition. They have won the last six Grand Slam titles between them and both eased into the French Open final most recently. However, Alcaraz came from an unthinkable position to come out on top on that occasion and has won five of his last six meetings with Sinner, so may have the edge. The Spaniard has claimed the Wimbledon crown in the last two seasons and has the easier of the draw, also avoiding Draper and Djokovic who are on the same side as Sinner,

says Aaron Ashley.

Wimbledon 2025 Outright Women’s Singles Prediction

Sabalenka warrants favouritism given the power she possesses but the pressure got to her in the final of both the Australian Open and French Open, while Gauff and Swiatek have plenty to prove on grass. Rybakina is a danger but again too short in the market, so Vondrousova may be the value play. The Czech talent won this title in 2023 and, while she has struggled with injuries since, her title triumph in Berlin last week shows that she is back in imperious touch. She claimed that grass-court title with wins over Madison Keys, Diana Shnaider, Ons Jabeur and Sabalenka and that form is hard to knock,

adds Aaron Ashley.

Dark Horse Tips

It would be dangerous to underestimate big-serving American Taylor Fritz in the men’s draw as the switch to grass has seen him rediscover his peak form.

Fritz, a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon in two of the last three seasons, claimed a title on this surface in Stuttgart earlier this month and he defeated home favourite Alexander Zverev 6-3 7-6 in the final.

The American has made a Grand Slam final before, having finished runner-up to Sinner at the 2024 US Open, and this is a terrain that brings out the best in him.

The third quarter looks his for the taking, with him fancied to find a way past Zverev and Daniil Medvedev, so if Alcaraz fails to fire in the bottom half of the draw he could pick up the pieces at 33/1.

An outside contender in the women’s draw could be Italian ace Jasmine Paolini, who was runner-up here last season and clearly has a liking for grass. She should go well at 22/1.

A semi-final run in Bad Homburg last time out should have put her spot on for this and she is a big-tournament player, highlighted by her win in Rome in the middle of May.

Paolini may have also landed in a nice quarter of the draw, whereLinda Noskova and Amanada Anisimova look like her chief dangers before the final eight.

Who wins Wimbledon 2025?

The men’s competition revolves around Alcaraz and Sinner, the pair of whom have been utterly dominant in recent Grand Slam events with Djokovic’s 2023 US Open win the last time that one of them failed to reign supreme.

But Alcaraz is on an 18-game winning streak, having taken the title in his last three tournament appearances, and looks extremely difficult to stop in his Wimbledon hat-trick bid.

The women’s event is far less conclusive - the last eight winners have been somebody different - and there is certainly value to be had down the betting.

Vondrousova, champion at the All England Club two years ago and back in winning form in her preparation in Berlin, heads the shortlist. The Czech talent may have to face Sabalenka in round three, but she defeated the world number one 6-2 6-4 recently in Germany.

The ulra-consistent Madison Keys, last season’s runner-up Paolini, big-serving Chinese talent Qinwen Zheng and Queen’s Club runner-up Amanda Anisimova are four that can be considered at bigger prices.

This article was written by a partner sports writer via Spotlight Sports Group. All odds displayed on this page were correct at the time of writing and are subject to withdrawal or change at any time.