“It’s the most wonderful time of the year” – Wimbledon 2025 is upon us and Lucy and Eugene are here to walk through the draw.

French Open champion Coco Gauff, seeded second, has a tricky opening round, while (4)Jasmine Paolini, fresh from a semi-final run in Bad Homburg, finds herself in the top half alongside world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka. Australian Open champion (6)Madison Keys and four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka also occupy top-half spots.

Last year’s women’s doubles champion, Taylor Townsend, made it through qualifying and can look forward to a first-round match against fellow American and 28th seed Sofia Kenin.

In the men’s draw, 10th seed Ben Shelton, in the same section as top seed Jannik Sinner, starts against a qualifier, while 12th seed Frances Tiafoe, in the bottom half, is projected to meet world No 2 Carlos Alcaraz in quarter-finals.

As is draw-show tradition, we close with our picks for the men’s and women’s titles.

We’re looking forward to bringing you daily audio pods from the grounds from Day 1. Also, with this being the 50th anniversary of Arthur Ashe winning Wimbledon, we’ll be paying tribute to the trailblazer throughout the fortnight.

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00:00 Intro

07:07 Coco Gauff’s path

11:50 Jasmine Paolini’s path

16:34 Madison Keys’s path

20:47 Alycia Parks’s path

21:54 Naomi Osaka’s 

25:06 Hailey Baptiste

25:20 Heather Watson

25:47 Taylor Townsend 

26:59 Rest of the women’s draw standouts 

30:15 Ben Shelton’s path

34:20 Frances Tiafoe’s path

39:42 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard’s path

44:14 Gabriel Diallo’s path

45:25 Gael Monfils’s path

48:40 Christopher Eubanks

49:35 Jay Clark

50:48 George Loffhagen

51:46 Rest of men’s draw standouts

55:45 Predictions