The 2025 Wimbledon Tennis Championships will be one of the highlights of the summer sporting calendar in the United Kingdom.
The third Grand Slam tournament of the season is scheduled to take place from June 30 to July 13 and features the world’s top male and female players.
Carlos Alcaraz is the defending men’s singles champion, while Barbora Krejcikova will be bidding to retain the title in the women’s singles.
The clamour for Wimbledon tickets on Seatsnet.com will be off the scale in the run-up to an event which always garners massive interest worldwide.
With that in mind, read on as we take a closer look at the men’s and women’s singles to determine which players could be in contention to win the respective titles.
Sinner and Alcaraz fancied to dominate the men’s singles
From 2021 onwards, the seedings have been based on the world rankings. The cut-off date for this year’s tournament is June 23. The projected seedings are as follows:
- Jannik Sinner – Italy
- Carlos Alcaraz – Spain
- Alexander Zverev – Germany
- Taylor Fritz – United States
- Jack Draper – United Kingdom
- Novak Djokovic – Serbia
- Lorenzo Musetti – Italy
- Casper Ruud – Norway
- Alex de Minaur – Australia
- Holger Rune – Denmark
- Daniil Medvedev – Russia
- Tommy Paul – United States
- Ben Shelton – United States
- Arthur Fils – France
- Andrey Rublev – Russia
- Frances Tiafoe – United States
- Grigor Dimitrov – Bulgaria
- Francisco Cerúndolo – Argentina
- Jakub Mensik – Czechia
- Stefanos Tsitsipas – Greece
- Ugo Humbert – France
- Tomas Machac – Czechia
- Sebastian Korda – United States
- Karen Khachanov – Russia
- Alexei Popyrin – Australia
- Flavio Cobolli – Italy
- Felix Auger-Aliassime – Canada
- Hubert Hurkacz – Poland
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina – Spain
- Matteo Berrettini – Italy
- Denis Shapovalov – Canada
- Brandon Nakashima – United States
Carlos Alcaraz is bidding to win the title for the third successive year, and it would be a brave move to bet against him achieving the feat.
Alcaraz has performed well during the early part of 2025, but improvement is expected once the grass court portion of the season begins.
The Spaniard defeated Novak Djokovic in straight sets in last year’s final, highlighting just how effective he is on this particular surface.
His main rival for the title is expected to be Jannik Sinner, who has never previously progressed beyond the semi-finals at Wimbledon.
Sinner won the Australian Open earlier this year before serving a three-month ban from tennis. He had twice tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid in 2024.
However, Sinner was found to bear ‘no fault or negligence’ for those positive tests, with the results attributed to a healing spray administered by his physiotherapist.
Sinner looked in good nick on his return to competitive tennis at the Italian Open, where he reached the final before losing out to Alcaraz.
The Italian’s break from the sport could work in his favour at Wimbledon, and he could be the value bet to wrestle the title away from the reigning champion.
British star Jack Draper will also be hoping to make a deep run at the tournament, but is unlikely to challenge either of the top two players.
Women’s singles tournament looks wide open
The seedings for the women’s tournament will be determined in the same way as the men’s event. The projected seedings are as follows:
- Aryna Sabalenka – Belarus
- Coco Gauff – United States
- Jessica Pegula – United States
- Jasmine Paolini – Italy
- Iga Swiatek – Poland
- Mirra Andreeva – Russia
- Zheng Qinwen – China
- Madison Keys – United States
- Emma Navarro – United States
- Paula Badosa – Spain
- Elena Rybakina – Kazakhstan
- Diana Shnaider – Russia
- Karolína Muchova – Czechia
- Elina Svitolina – Ukraine
- Barbora Krejcikova – Czechia
- Amanda Anisimova – United States
- Daria Kasatkina – Australia
- Liudmila Samsonova – Russia
- Donna Vekic – Croatia
- Ekaterina Alexandrova – Russia
- Jeļena Ostapenko – Latvia
- Clara Tauson – Denmark
- Beatriz Haddad Maia – Brazil
- Elise Mertens – Belgium
- Marta Kostyuk – Ukraine
- Magdalena Frech Poland
- Leylah Fernandez – Canada
- Anna Kalinskaya – Russia
- Linda Noskova – Czechia
- Sofia Kenin – United States
- Yulia Putintseva – Kazakhstan
- Magda Linette – Poland
Sabalenka is the favourite to win the women’s title, but may find it difficult to justify her status in what promises to be a competitive tournament.
She has reached the semi-finals on two previous occasions (2021 and 2023), but missed the event last year due to a shoulder injury.
The 27-year-old reached the final of the Australian Open in January and has been in good form since then, but could come up short at Wimbledon.
Coco Gauff has been touted as a potential future champion, although she has yet to prove she is truly top class on a grass court.
The same point applies to Iga Swiatek, who has never progressed beyond the quarter-finals in five previous appearances at Wimbledon.
However, the five-time Grand Slam winner undoubtedly has the ability to compete effectively on grass if everything clicks into place.
Swiatek was reportedly considering missing Wimbledon to prepare for the US Open, but the temptation to try and win the tournament may prove too strong to resist.
Former champions Barbora Krejcikova (2024), Marketa Vondrousova (2023) and Elena Rybakina (2022) make limited appeal as potential winners as they are outside the world’s top 10.
Two-time champion Petra Kvitova, who returned from maternity leave in February, will need a wild card to compete in the main draw.
