Wimbledon 2025 Day 1 results, highlights: Carlos Alcaraz, Emma Raducanu, Daniil Medvedev, Aryna Sabalenka. Full list of winners, losers

Wimbledon 2025 Day 1 results showed that Carlos Alcaraz survived a major scare in his Wimbledon opener while Aryna Sabalenka kept her cool to cruise into the second round on the hottest opening day in the tournament's history. Former US Open champion Daniil Medvedev suffered a shocking defeat. Temperatures at the All England Club on Monday topped 32 degrees Celsius (89.6 Fahrenheit), surpassing the previous record for the start of the tournament of 29.3 Celsius set in 2001. Wimbledon has a heat rule to safeguard the health of the players. The rule allows a 10-minute break to be taken between the second and third sets for women's matches and between the third and fourth sets for men's matches, when the heat stress index is at or above 30.1 degrees Celsius.

Carlos Alcaraz

Alcaraz digged dip for a 7-5, 6-7 (5/7), 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 win over 38-year-old Fabio Fognini in a gruelling clash lasting four hours and 37 minutes on Centre Court. It was first time since Roger Federer narrowly beat Alejandro Falla in 2010 that a defending champion had been taken to a fifth set in the Wimbledon first round.


Alcaraz shrugged off an inconsistent display including 62 unforced errors as the world number two refused to wilt in the heat. Alcaraz, who has never lost in a Grand Slam first round in 18 appearances, faces British qualifier Oliver Tarvet in the second round.

The five-time Grand Slam champion is bidding to become the fifth man in the Open Era to win at least three consecutive Wimbledon titles after Bjorn Borg, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and seven-time champion Djokovic.

Wimbledon 2025 Day 1 Results

Top seed Aryna Sabalenka used ice packs to beat the heat during her 6-1, 7-5 victory over Canadian qualifier Carson Branstine on Court One. The 27-year-old Belarusian is a three-time Grand Slam champion but suffered agonising three-set defeats in this year's Australian Open and French Open finals. The world number one has never been beyond the Wimbledon semi-finals and missed last year's tournament with a shoulder injury.

Two-time Wimbledon finalist Ons Jabeur broke down in tears before retiring from her first-round match against Viktoriya Tomova. Tunisia's Jabeur was trailing 7-6 (7/5), 2-0 when she brought a premature end to her clash with the Bulgarian world number 111. The 30-year-old, beaten in the 2022 and 2023 Wimbledon finals, wiped away tears after losing a long fifth game in the first set and took a lengthy medical timeout.

Former US Open champion Daniil Medvedev, a Wimbledon semi-finalist for the past two years, suffered a meltdown against France's Benjamin Bonzi. Bonzi won 7-6 (7/2), 3-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 in three hours and seven minutes, with the fuming Russian smashing his racquet against his chair at the end of the match.

Elsewhere, former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko was beaten 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 by Britain's Sonay Kartal. Danish eighth seed Holger Rune lost 4-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 to Chilean world number 143 Nicolas Jarry.

Australian Open champion Madison Keys fought back to beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse 6-7, (4/7), 7-5, 7-5. Former US Open champion Emma Raducanu defeated fellow Briton Mini Xu 6-3, 6-3 to book a second-round date with 2023 Wimbledon winner Marketa Vondrousova.

FAQs

Q1. Who is defending champion of Wimbledon 2025?
A1. Defending champion of Wimbledon 2025 is Carlos Alcaraz.

Q2. How many grand slams Carlos Alcaraz has won?
A2. Five-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz is bidding to become the fifth man in the Open Era to win at least three consecutive Wimbledon titles after Bjorn Borg, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and seven-time champion Djokovic.