The 2025 Wimbledon Championships are here, with the world’s best tennis players making the annual pilgrimage to SW19 for their shot at one of the biggest prizes in tennis.
Here’s everything you need to know.
WEDNESDAY’S SINGLES SCHEDULE
Brackets:
Men’s singles | Women’s singles
Men’s doubles | Women’s Doubles | Mixed doubles
CENTRE COURT (from 1.30 p.m.)
Mirra Andreeva (7) vs Belinda Bencic
Flavio Cobolli (22) vs Novak Djokovic (6)
NO. 1 COURT (from 1 p.m.)
Iga Swiatek (8) vs Liudmila Samsonova (19)
Wednesday’s Wimbledon weather forecast
The Met Office is forecasting a sunny day with a high of 28 degrees Celsius. Sunset is expected at 9.16 p.m. BST.
How to watch
Dates: June 30 to July 13
Venue: The All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon
How to watch: In the UK, Wimbledon will be broadcast live on BBC as usual, although the men’s and women’s singles finals will also be shown on TNT Sports.
In the United States, ESPN is the home of the All England Club showing 250 hours of live action available across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN+, Disney+ and ESPN Deportes
You can also follow the latest coverage on ESPN.com.
Who are the favourites?
Wimbledon can always spell an upset, and it took just days to deliver its biggest.
Last month’s French Open saw both singles events sport a final between the No.1 and No. 2 seeds — the first time that has happened at Roland Garros since 1984.
Carlos Alcaraz fought from behind and outlasted Jannik Sinner to take the men’s trophy, while Coco Gauff won her first French Open title by beating Aryna Sabalenka.
That won’t happen at SW19, though.
Gauff was sent packing after the first round after a defeat to Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska. For now, the other three survive.
Novak Djokovic is vying to add to his seven Wimbledon crowns, Taylor Fritz will also be looking to upset the order win their first Grand Slam title.
No. 3-seed Alexander Zverev suffered the same after as Gauff after a marathon five-set defeat to Arthur Rinderknech.
In the women’s bracket, Jessica Pegula entered as the third seed but went out to Elisabetta Cocciaretto. Jasmine Paolini, who finished runner-up last year, has also been dumped out.
Prize money
The total prize money for the championships this summer is ÂŁ53.5 million, with the winners of the men’s and women’s singles titles each taking home ÂŁ3m — an 11% increase from last year.
Men’s and women’s doubles champions will earn ÂŁ680,000, while mixed doubles winners claim ÂŁ135,000.
Breakdown of single’s prize money:
Winner: ÂŁ3m
Runner-up: ÂŁ1.52m
Semifinal: ÂŁ775,000
Quarterfinal: ÂŁ400,000
Fourth round: ÂŁ240,000
Third round: ÂŁ152,000
Second round: ÂŁ99,000
First round: ÂŁ66,000
Where can fans find more ESPN tennis coverage?
ESPN’s tennis page has all the latest breaking news, analysis, features, rankings, Grand Slam title winners and more.
– Ranking the top contenders at Wimbledon 2025
– Why are there so few women coaches in professional tennis?
– WATCH: Will this be Djokovic’s ‘last dance’ at SW19?
