Wimbledon 2025: When is the draw, when does it start and how to watch on TV

Players are making their final preparations for the grass-court grand slam. Novak Djokovic was one of the first names to arrive on site at Wimbledon and practised over the weekend as he bids to win an eighth title.

Events in Eastbourne, Bad Homburg and Mallorca are taking place over the coming days 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 deep run from Jack Draper, Emma Raducanu or 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 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, Sunday July 13.

Draw details?

The Wimbledon draw will take place today.

How to watch Wimbledon on TV and streaming in the UK

The BBC is broadcasting the event on BBC One, BBC Two and iPlayer. Isa Guha (in the morning) and Clare Balding (in the afternoon) will lead the presenting team. They will be joined by John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Billie Jean King, Pat Cash, Tracy Austin, Tim Henman and Annabel Croft.

Every match is available to stream live on the iPlayer. The popular highlights show, Today at Wimbledon, has been moved to a graveyard slot on BBC2 – at 11.55pm on day one and a similar time thereafter. For viewers who want to watch the highlights show earlier, it will still be available at 8pm or 9pm on the iPlayer.

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. Kyrgios said the BBC’s decision not to include him is “their loss more than mine”.

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.

TNT Sports have the rights to show men’s and women’s finals as well as a nightly highlights show at 10pm every day of the tournament.

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

British world No 719 qualifies
Oliver Tarvet sealed his place in the men’s singles at Wimbledon after beating Belgium’s Alexander Blockx in four sets in the final round of qualifying at Roehampton.

Tarvet, 719 in the world rankings, will make his Wimbledon debut next week after defeating 29th seed Blockx 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 to become the first male British qualifier since Alexander Ward in 2017.

What a moment 💪

World No.719 Oliver Tarvet qualifies for the main draw at #Wimbledon 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/8gJ6fHnpYX

— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) June 26, 2025

The 21-year-old from St Albans said in his post-match interview: “There’s a lot of emotions, but the main one is just happiness.

“There’s a lot of work gone in to getting where I am today. A lot of people have worked really hard to help me, not only get through this qualification, but the last two years. A lot of emotions, but I’m just really enjoying the moment. It’s a dream come true and I’m just happy to be a part of it.”

Tarvet, currently studying at the University of San Diego in the United States, beat French 14th seed Terence Atmane and Canada’s Alexis Galarneau in straight sets in the previous rounds.

New for 2025

No line judges
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 are 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 at 4pm, two hours later than usual, 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
Billy Harris

Wild cards

Dan Evans
Jay Clarke
Oliver Crawford
George Loffhagen
Johannus Monday
Jack Pinnington Jones
Henry Searle
Arthur Fery

Qualified

Oliver Tarvet

Women’s singles

Qualified automatically

Emma Raducanu
Katie Boulter 
Sonay Kartal

Wild cards

Hannah Klugman
Mika Stojsavlevic
Mimi Xu
Heather Watson
Jodie Burrage
Harriet Dart
Fran Jones

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.