Wimbledon 2025 Draw: Reactions, predictions and tough first rounds
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year” – Wimbledon 2025 is upon us and Lucy and Eugene are here to walk through the draw.
French Open champion Coco Gauff, seeded second, has a tricky opening round, while (4)Jasmine Paolini, fresh from a semi-final run in Bad Homburg, finds herself in the top half alongside world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka. Australian Open champion (6)Madison Keys and four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka also occupy top-half spots.
Last year’s women’s doubles champion, Taylor Townsend, made it through qualifying and can look forward to a first-round match against fellow American and 28th seed Sofia Kenin.
In the men’s draw, 10th seed Ben Shelton, in the same section as top seed Jannik Sinner, starts against a qualifier, while 12th seed Frances Tiafoe, in the bottom half, is projected to meet world No 2 Carlos Alcaraz in quarter-finals.
As is draw-show tradition, we close with our picks for the men’s and women’s titles.
We’re looking forward to bringing you daily audio pods from the grounds from Day 1. Also, with this being the 50th anniversary of Arthur Ashe winning Wimbledon, we’ll be paying tribute to the trailblazer throughout the fortnight.
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00:00 Intro
07:07 Coco Gauff’s path
11:50 Jasmine Paolini’s path
16:34 Madison Keys’s path
20:47 Alycia Parks’s path
21:54 Naomi Osaka’s
25:06 Hailey Baptiste
25:20 Heather Watson
25:47 Taylor Townsend
26:59 Rest of the women’s draw standouts
30:15 Ben Shelton’s path
34:20 Frances Tiafoe’s path
39:42 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard’s path
44:14 Gabriel Diallo’s path
45:25 Gael Monfils’s path
48:40 Christopher Eubanks
49:35 Jay Clark
50:48 George Loffhagen
51:46 Rest of men’s draw standouts
55:45 Predictions
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