wimbledon 2025 | Raducanu, Alcaraz, Boulter and heat - Monday's Wimbledon preview Diner Offer Raducanu, Alcaraz, Boulter and heat - Monday's Wimbledon preview Joe RindlBBC Sport journalistPublished29 June 2025Updated 4 hours agoWimbledon 2025 Dates: 30 June-13 July Venue: All England ClubCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. Full coverage guide.Wimbledon starts on Monday as the first contingent of the 23 British players in men's and women's singles compete on the All England Club grass courts.British involvement in the singles is at its highest since 1984, with 14 home players involved on day one of the 138th Championships. Among them will be Katie Boulter and Emma Raducanu, handed prime show-court slots.Two-time defending men's champion Carlos Alcaraz begins his campaign on Monday, as does women's world number one Aryna Sabalenka.Prepare for a sunny sizzler of a day. The weather forecast points to temperatures climbing as high as 33C in south-west London, so the heat presents a challenge in itself for the players.The hottest opening Wimbledon day on record was in 2001, when temperatures reached 29.3C. The hottest-ever day at SW19 was 1 July 2015, when it reached 35.7C.As Wimbledon tradition dictates, men's champion Alcaraz opens play on Centre Court. The second seed launches his campaign at 13:30 BST as he faces 38-year-old Italian Fabio Fognini.That is followed by Briton Boulter's match against Spanish ninth seed Paula Badosa before German third seed Alexander Zverev faces France's Arthur Rinderknech.On Court One, Belarusian top seed Sabalenka gets play under way against Canadian Carson Branstine at 13:00 BST. Branstine, 24, got past French Open semi-finalist Lois Boisson and former US Open winner Bianca Andreescu in qualifying and will be making her main draw debut in a Grand Slam.Briton Jacob Fearnley takes on exciting Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca in the second match on that court, before the intriguing all-British tie between Emma Raducanu and Mimi Xu, a 17-year-old from Swansea.Five women to watch at WimbledonPublished2 days agoFive men to watch out for at WimbledonPublished2 days agoHow to watch and follow Wimbledon across the BBCPublished4 hours agoWhile Boulter, Fearnley, Raducanu and Xu start their tournaments on the main show courts, there will be 10 other Britons in action around the grounds, with play beginning at 11:00 BST.Cameron Norrie, a semi-finalist three years ago, plays second on court 18 as he faces a tricky opponent in Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut.Sonay Kartal features in the court three opener against Latvian 20th seed and former French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko.The final two matches on court 17 feature British interest as Harriet Dart takes on Hungarian Dalma Galfi before world number 796 Mika Stojsavljevic faces American 31st seed Ashlyn Krueger.Stojsavljevic, 16, is a wildcard entry and won last year's US Open girls' title.Her fellow British 16-year-old Hannah Klugman is third on court 12 against Canada's Leylah Fernandez - the player Raducanu beat in the 2021 US Open final. Klugman, who was brought up in Wimbledon Village, reached the girls' final at the French Open in June.
