Wimbledon 2025: When is it, draw details and how to watch
The countdown to Wimbledon is under way as the players transition from the gruelling clay-court season to the short grass-court swing.
Queen’s held its first women’s tournament since 1973 and the men are in action at the West Kensington venue this week. Halle, Berlin, Nottingham, Eastbourne and Mallorca will also host tournaments for players to get acclimatised to the surface.
Will we see a repeat of the French Open, where the top two seeds in the men’s and women’s draws meet in the final? What hopes of a British winner from Jack Draper, Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter?
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- When does Wimbledon start
- When do the Wimbledon finals take place?
- Draw details
- How to watch
- How to buy Wimbledon tickets
- Prize money
- Latest news
- New to 2025
- British players at Wimbledon
When does Wimbledon start?
The qualifying tournament starts on June 23. The Wimbledon main draw begins on June 30.
When do the Wimbledon finals take place?
The women’s final takes place on Saturday, July 12, and the men’s final the following day.
Draw details?
The Wimbledon draw will take place on Friday, June 27.
How to watch Wimbledon on TV and streaming in the UK
The BBC is broadcasting the event on BBC One, BBC Two and iPlayer. Clare Balding will lead the presenting team again and is likely to be joined by Tim Henman, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova and Tracy Austin.
Nick Kyrgios will not be returning as a BBC pundit at Wimbledon this year after being hired in 2024. The corporation caused outrage 12 months ago by hiring the “bad boy” of tennis just over a year after he admitted assaulting an ex-girlfriend.
By UK law, Wimbledon is a “Category B” television event, meaning that although the men’s and women’s finals must always remain free-to-air, there is no guarantee that the rest of the tournament will not one day be shown on pay-TV.
How to watch Wimbledon on TV in the US
ESPN has the rights to show 140-plus hours of coverage from Wimbledon in the United States. In 2021, ESPN signed a 12-year agreement to broadcast the event. Coverage begins each day at 6am Eastern Time.
Where is Wimbledon held?
The tournament takes place, as ever, at the All England Lawn Tennis Club on Church Road, Wimbledon. The competition has been held on this site since 1922, when The Championships were moved from their previous location on Worple Road.
How to buy Wimbledon tickets
The public Wimbledon ballot is closed, meaning that most tickets for the show courts are unavailable. However, one of the traditions of Wimbledon is “The Queue”. Every day fans can queue for a ticket to one of the show courts or for a grounds pass, depending on what is available by the time they reach the front of the queue.
Each day 500 tickets for Centre Court (excluding the last four days), No 1 Court, and No 2 Court are sold. A grounds pass entitles fans to access all courts apart from the show courts.
Resale tickets for Centre Court, No 1 Court and No 2 Court are available from 3pm each day, from the ticket resale kiosk north of Court 18.
For more ticket information, click here.
What is the Wimbledon prize money?
In 2025, total prize money is £53.5 million, up 7 per cent from last year and is double the figure awarded 10 years ago. The men’s and women’s singles champions will take home £3 million each. First-round losers in the singles will receive £66,000.
Latest news
Raducanu’s stalker blocked
Emma Raducanu’s stalker has been blocked after he tried to buy tickets for this year’s Wimbledon.
The man, who was identified in the stands in the WTA tournament in Dubai in February and taken away by police, an incident that left Raducanu in tears, was spotted by officials on the list of applicants for Wimbledon tickets.
He was not charged with any criminal offence after the Dubai incident but signed a document saying he would not attempt to approach Raducanu again.
He had followed the Briton through four WTA tournaments and approached her in a cafe when she was unaccompanied by any of her support team. Raducanu was offered extra security at the next tournament in Indian Wells.
New for 2025
No more umpires
In a major break from history for the Championships, an automated electronic line calling (ELC) system will be adopted for this year’s Championships, meaning line judges will be a thing of the past.
The technology will be in place across all Championships and Qualifying match courts, with more than 450 cameras installed across the two venues to facilitate its operation. A contingent of the former line umpires will return to the Championships in the new role of match assistants.
Change to finals weekend
The men’s and women’s singles finals will start two hours later at 4pm to appeal more to global broadcasters. The change from the traditional 2pm start means that both showpiece events will now begin on the west coast of the United States at the more generous time of 8am rather than 6am.
The All England Club said the decision to move the singles finals to later slots, with doubles preceding from 1pm, “was felt that this makes for a better conclusion to the Championships”.
Wimbledon court and stadium guide
Wimbledon has six show courts: Centre Court, No 1 Court, No 2 Court, No 3 Court, Court 12 and Court 18. Centre is the largest court at the All England Club and features the famous Royal Box. The court capacity on Centre is 14,974 while Court No 1 can hold 12,345.
There are 12 other grass courts in use throughout the tournament. Court 8 was where an 18-year-old John McEnroe made his SW19 bow against Egypt’s Ismail El Shafei in 1977.
In 1995, on court 14, Tim Henman became the first player to be disqualified from Wimbledon when playing in a doubles match with Jeremy Bates against the United States’ Jeff Tarango and Sweden’s Henrik Holm when he whacked a ball in anger, accidentally hitting 16-year-old ball girl Caroline Hall in the head.
British players at Wimbledon
Men’s singles
Qualified automatically
Jack Draper
Cameron Norrie
Jacob Fearnley
Wild cards
TBC
Women’s draw
Qualified automatically
Emma Raducanu
Katie Boulter
Sonay Kartal
Wild cards
TBC
Who are the defending champions?
Last year, Carlos Alcaraz successfully defended his title, beating Novak Djokovic in straight sets 6-2, 6-2, 7-6.
Barbora Krejcikova claimed her second grand slam singles title when she beat Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 2-6, 6-4.
Past Wimbledon winners
The Wimbledon trophies
The men play for the Gentlemen’s Singles Trophy, which is 18 inches high and has a diameter of 7.5 inches.
The women play for the Venus Rosewater Dish, which is a silver salver with mythological decoration.
The champion at the end of the tournament receives a three-quarter size replica of their respective trophy, which bears the names of all past winners.
