Remember the good old days when being a seeded player at Wimbledon practically meant a free pass to the second week of the tournament. Those days have left the All England Club with a vengeance in 2025 as more seeded players lost on Day 4.
The women's singles draw was the first ransacked by the upsets. World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka is the only one in the Top 5 still standing. She is playing Emma Raducanu in the third round, who did not knock out a seed but the 2023 Wimbledon champion, Marketa Vondrousova, who was ironically the last unseeded player to win the tournament.
The men's singles draw is also a mess, but not as bad as the women's...yet. Jack Draper, long believed to be a frontrunner to give the Brits another Wimbledon title, was beaten by 36-year-old Marin Cilic, who appeared to turn back time and play like he was ten years younger.
Tommy Paul also lost, but given his abdominal injury and an ankle injury that happened during his second-round match, he was not playing at 100 percent.
Can an unseeded player win Wimbledon 2025?
While the draws are decimated, there are still capable seeded players in the mix. In addition to Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek is showing great grass court form as well as Madison Keys, 2022 champion Elena Rybakina, Mirra Andreeva, Emma Navarro, and Amanda Anisimova, to name a few.
Rybakina after beating Maria Sakkari at Wimbledon
— The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) July 3, 2025
“It hasn’t been an easy ride for the seeds here at Wimbledon. It bodes well for you though going forward. You’re still here.”
Elena: “it’s very unexpected to see so many seeded players lose. But also, the grass is very special.… pic.twitter.com/UYgym9iB4j
On the men's side, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz, Novak Djokovic, and Jakub Mensik are a few big names still in the tournament. Sinner and Alcaraz have won the last six Grand Slams.
The seeds have left the building at an alarming rate in the first two rounds of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships, but there is a lot of tennis yet to be played. The remaining seeded players are more than capable of making a deep run.
It is reasonable to assume that seeded players will win the men's and women's singles titles next weekend. However, if the third round is as chaotic with upsets as the previous two rounds were, we may need to revisit this theory.