Wimbledon: Date, venue, history, odds & more

Wimbledon is the only major to be played on grass courts and is regarded as the most prestigious of the four Grand Slam tournaments on the tennis calendar.

The first championship in SW19 took place all the way back in 1877, meaning that the 2025 staging will be the 138th of its illustrious history.

Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz is the two-time defending champion in the men's singles, while Czech Barbora Krejčíková won the women's singles in 2024 to claim her second Grand Slam title.

Wimbledon dates

The 2025 Wimbledon championships are scheduled to take place between Monday 30th June and Monday 14th July.

Wimbledon venue

The 2025 Wimbledon championships take place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Church Road in London SW19.

The tournament has been staged at the same venue since its inception, but moved to Church Road from Worple Road from the 1922 staging on wards.

The current facilities have overgone some major changes in recent times, with the Centre Court arena fitted with a retractable roof in 2009 and the No.1 court following suit a decade later.

The 2025 tournament will see line judges replaced by electronic line-calling systems for the very first time.

Wimbledon how to watch, TV channel and live streaming

The 2025 Wimbledon championships are scheduled to be broadcast on the Nine Network, while it will also be available to stream on 9Now and Stan Sport.

Wimbledon prize money

The total prize money on offer at the 2025 Wimbledon championships is £53.5million, with the winners of the men's and women's singles earning £million each.

The beaten finalists take home £1,520,000 and even those losing in the opening round receive a cheque for £66,000.

Wimbledon history

Having been played since 1877, the Wimbledon championships have a long and glittering history, with the post-1968 professional era ushering in domination from a handful of players in the men's singles.

Swiss legend Roger Federer has won a record eight titles, one more than both American great Pete Sampras and Novak Djokovic, with the latter hoping to draw level with his great rival this time around.

Australian success has come through Rod Laver with four victories, John Newcombe with three and Norman Brookes, Gerald Patterson, Lew Hoad and Roy Emerson, all with two.

Jack Crawford, Frank Sedgman, Ashley Cooper, Neale Fraser, Pat Cash and Lleyton Hewitt have all been crowned champion once, with Hewitt's 2002 success the most recent for an Aussie.

In the women's singles Martina Navratilova holds the record with seven titles to her name, two more than both Steffi Graf and Serena Williams, while American Helen Wills Moody was an eight-time champion in the amateur era.

For Australia Margaret Court has won Wimbledon three times and Evonne Goolagong Cawley twice, while Ash Barty tasted victory as recently as 2021.

Wimbledon odds

The outright market for the men's singles at the 2025 Wimbledon championships is led jointly by two-time defending champ Alcaraz at 2.50 and Jannik Sinner at 2.50, with Djokovic not far behind at 3.50.

The leading Australian chance is Alex De Minaur is out at 34.00, while 2022 beaten finalist Nick Kyrgios again misses out due to injury.

In the women's singles outright market world number one Aryna Sabalenka leads the way at 3.75, with the Belarusian having been beaten in the finals of both the Australian Open and the French Open this year.

2022 champion Elena Rybakina comes next at 6.00, with Paris champion Coco Gauff at 7.00, while the main Aussie contender is Daria Kasatkina at 51.00.

Any odds displayed were correct at the time of writing and are subject to fluctuation.