How to See Your Favourite Player at Wimbledon 2025

The following article explains the Tournament schedule, how the draw works, and how you can improve your chances of seeing your favourite player in action at the 2025 Championships.

How does the Wimbledon Draw work?

Wimbledon is 1 of 4 'Grand Slam Tournaments' in professional tennis. Players are entered into the Tournament draw according to their current ranking with the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

In total, 128 players are entered into each Grand Slam Tournament. Of these, 32 are seeded (ranked on previous performance) players, and 96 are unseeded players.

The Tournament is a knockout and the process that determines which players will meet is deliberately biased to prevent the world's top seeds meeting too early in the Tournament.

For example, to prevent the No.1 and No. 2 seeds meeting before the final:

• The No.1 seed is entered on the first row
• The No. 2 seed is entered on the last (128th) row

Then, to prevent the No.1 , No. 2 , No. 3 and No. 4 seeds meeting before the semi-finals:

• The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds are drawn
• The 1st player drawn is entered on row 33
• The 2nd plate drawn is entered on row 96

Continuing the process, seeds 5 to 8 are drawn and entered on rows 32, 64, 65, and 97, in the order drawn. Four further groups of seeded players are then drawn and interspersed on the drawsheet.

Once all 32 seeded players are entered on the draw-sheet, the 96 unseeded players are then randomly selected.

What is the order of play for the 2025 Championships?

The 2025 Wimbledon Championships are scheduled to run from Monday, 30th June 2025 until Sunday, July 13, 2025.

The Tournament is now played without the middle-Sunday rest day.

Rounds are usually scheduled months before the players playing in the first round are drawn.

See also:

The Wimbledon 2025 Tournament Schedule

How do I maximise my chances of seeing my favourite player?

Even if your crystal ball can foresee who'll be playing and when, obtaining tickets for your preferred court and day would still be challenging.

The allocation of seats at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships is a complex process. Whether you get a ticket (at all) and where you end up sitting will depend on various factors.

Suppose that you want to adopt a strategy to give you the best chance of seeing your favourite player in action. Let's choose reigning US Open champion, Emma Raducanu.

To start with, your best chance of seeing any tennis at all, is to purchase a ticket in advance. To do so you can enter the Wimbledon Ballot, join the Wimbledon Queue or buy a Wimbledon debenture ticket.

The Public Ballot

The Wimbledon Ballot usually opens in September, the year before the respective Tournament.

The Queue

The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) retains the following tickets (approximately), for fans willing to brave the much loved Wimbledon Queue:

• 500 Centre Court tickets
• 500 No.1 Court tickets
• 500 No.2 Court tickets
• A few thousand Ground Passes

Tickets are awarded on a first come, first served basis. If you are willing to join the queue early enough you stand a good chance getting a ticket.

If you know that Emma has made it through to the Semi Finals, for example, you will need to think about joining the Queue (and camping out) a day or two in advance.

When you join the Queue you will be given a card with a number indicating your position. If your number is below 500, there is a very high probability that you will get a ticket for Centre Court for that day.

If your number is over 500, a Centre Court ticket for that day is not guaranteed. You are likely to receive a ticket to watch action on one of the other Show Courts, if you wish. Once you know your queue card number, you can decide whether to wait in the Queue.

Wimbledon debenture tickets

Debenture ticket seats give tennis fans the best views of the action on Wimbledon’s historic Centre Court or the Championship’s newly-renovated No.1 Court. debenture holders receive tickets for every day of either Centre Court or No.1 Court, for 5 years.

If you are a debenture holder for Centre Court, your chances of seeing Emma in action are high as you could, in theory, attend every day of the Tournament. With daily access to all courts (subject to availability), even if Emma is playing on one of the outside courts, you can still watch her match.

Alternatively, you could wait until the Tournament is underway and attend when you know Emma will be playing.

However, most debenture holders will sell a portion of their tickets well in advance. They would not have the last minute flexibility to choose a day to attend at the last minute

Debenture tickets can be bought, sold and exchanged

Debenture tickets are the only tickets to the Championships that can be legally bought and sold. There is an active secondary market where tickets are bought, sold and exchanged with other debenture ticket holders.

This means that you could, in theory, buy a debenture ticket a day or two in advance of when you know Emma will be appearing on court.

In previous years, the last minute exchange of paper tickets would have presented logistical challenges. However, now that the AELTC have migrated to e-tickets, tickets can transferred instantly through the through the myWimbledon App.

Debenture tickets, which also grant the holder access to the exclusive debenture bars, restaurants and lounges, can be expensive. Nevertheless, the premium experience offered to debenture ticket holders is much sought after and there is considerable competition for tickets.

Conclusion

Short of being a Wimbledon debenture holder with tickets to all days of the Tournament, your best strategy for targeting a specific player might be spending a night or two under canvas.

You can always enter the 2025 Public Ballot and who knows, you might get to see Emma win her first Wimbledon Title!

Purchasing a debenture ticket at the last minute is also an option. You can set up a ticket alert to make sure you are the first to hear as soon as a debenture ticket meeting your criteria becomes available.

As a footnote, the defending champion always plays on Centre Court on Day 1.

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