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With less than a week to go until Wimbledon 2025 – the draws are two days from now, on Friday – we’re looking at some of the major storylines ahead of this year’s championships.
As always, there’s plenty of history on the line this year.
An 8th consecutive first-time champion for the women?
Since Serena Williams won her seventh Wimbledon title in 2016, the last seven women’s singles champions have all been first time winners at SW19.
Will that streak end this year or will it reach No. 8? Aryna Sabalenka, the odds-on favorite, could make it happen. So could any of the top eight seeds, in fact.
Djokovic could get his 25th major and the eighth Wimbledon title…
Every time he takes the court, Novak Djokovic is chasing history. If the Grand Slam king can get to the finish line and win Wimbledon, Djokovic will stand alone at the top of the all-time singles grand slam titles list with 25, and he will also tie Roger Federer’s record of 8 Wimbledon men’s singles trophies. Based on what we saw in Paris, and Djokovic’’s recent history at Wimbledon, we think he has a shot.
The Serbian legend is 97-12 lifetime on the Wimbledon grass.
A women’s singles title defense?
Not since 2016 when Serena Williams won her seventh and final Wimbledon title, has a women completed a successful title defense. In fact, last year, defending champion Marketa Vondrousova fell in the first round, marking the first time a defending women’s singles champion didn’t win a round at Wimbledon since Steffi Graff fell to Lori McNeil in round one in 1994.
This year, Barbora Krejcikova will try to avoid a similar fate as she bids for her third major.
An alcaraz three-peat
Carlos Alcaraz has come a long way in a short time. The surging Spaniard heads into Wimbledon riding a 14-Match winning streak at the Championships and an 18-match winning streak overall. If he wins the title at SW19, he will be the fifth player in history to achieve a men’s singles three-peat – joining Bjorn Borg, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer, and Novak Djokovic.
We should note…. After winning his second Queen‘s club title on Sunday, June 22, Alcaraz is 29-3 lifetime on grass… he has a higher winning percentage on grass than any other player in open era history.
A new leading man?
Did you know that since 2003 only five different men have won a Wimbledon men’s singles title? And since 2013, when Andy Murray won his first Wimbledon title, there has not been a first-time winner on the men’s side?
Jannik Sinner would love to break up the party this year, and become the first Italian man to win a Wimbledon singles title in the Open Era. Does he have it in him?
No. 30 for AMERICAN WOMEN?
Since the open era started, the American women have won the women’s singles title 29 times. That's 21 more than the next closest nation, which is Germany, with eight. Remarkably, between 2000 and 2017 the Williams sisters alone accounted for 11 singles titles at Wimbledon. But Since then the American women have come up empty.
With a talented quartet inside the current top 10, the American women could get number 30 this year. Coco Gauff, Madison Keys and Jessica Pegula all have a shot to become the first American woman since Serena to win the title. We should also throw in Amanda Anisimova and Emma Navarro. You never know what could happen in the women’s draw at wimbledon. It all gets underway Monday, June 30.