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The round of 16 continues today on the eighth day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at SW19.
Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner and Iga Świątek all will take the court as the second week of the tournament begins. Today's winners will join Sunday's winners in the quarterfinals.
Who will get that done? Follow all of our coverage below.
Čilić 4-6, 4-6, *0-0 Cobolli
Flavio Cobolli is moving well and has just won the second set, leaving Marin Čilić with a big task on his hands if he is to battle back here.
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Eight-time men's singles champion Roger Federer is back at Wimbledon as he head to the Royal Box to cast his eye over the Centre Court offering today.
He has just arrived on site here in SW19 along with his wife Mirka.
A reminder of Federer's record Wimbledon wins — they came in: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2017.
Among the surprise list of players still in the Wimbledon women’s draw, a couple stand out.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 34 and Laura Siegemund, 37, are tour veterans, but are playing in their second and first Wimbledon quarterfinal respectively. Pavlyuchenkova last played in one nine years ago, and said after beating Britain’s Sonay Kartal that she was as surprised as anyone by her progress here.
Siegemund, who is ranked No. 104, said after beating lucky loser Solana Sierra that her run this year was overdue. Her slice-heavy game naturally matches up well on grass but she explained that clay is her best surface and she often arrived at Wimbledon tired after that swing: “I always felt on grass that by the time I start to feel the game and I start to play better, it’s already over. That was how it pretty much went every year.”
She has the ultimate test next against the world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, while Pavlyuchenkova plays Amanda Anisimova, the No. 13 seed.
Čilić 4-6, *0-0 Cobolli
And there it is, easy as you like with four unanswered points to breeze through that service game, Cobolli is one set to the good.
Just the one break point was up for grabs in that set and Cobolli won it, as well as making just eight unforced errors to Čilić's 17.
Čilić 4-5* Cobolli
Well here's a chance for No. 22 seed Flavio Cobolli.
He's just one game away from taking the first set and he should be able to assert himself here with an impressive 85 per cent of his first serves landing in in this first set.
What a day we had yesterday at Wimbledon! But if you missed it, have no fear — you can catch up on all the big talking points via The Briefing here on The Athletic.
Among the big topics from Day 7:
Catch up via the link below.
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Čilić 2-1* Cobolli
It's been a steady start in the men's singles match over on No. 2 Court with both players posting holds in the first three games.
Cobolli had chance to break Čilić in that last game at 40-40 but the Croatian withstood the early test.
The comparisons between Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic started in the pre-Covid-19 days.
Sinner has moved through the tournament so far without much incident — Sinner lost just 17 games in his first three matches, breaking a record of 19 previously held by Roger Federer.
Meanwhile in his third round match, Djokovic put in a a 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 demolition of Miomir Kecmanović.
It puts them on course for an increasingly likely showdown in the semi-final on July 11.
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As the players head out onto the courts for the first matches of the day, here's a couple of the matches starting now…
A very good morning everyone from a sunny Wimbledon.
It's nearly time for the morning matches to get underway on the outdoor courts, so join us for all the updates from across SW19 this morning.
As a reminder, matches on the outdoor courts begin at 11am BST (6am ET) and then at 1.00pm (9am ET) on No. 1 Court, before the showpiece Centre Court action begins half an hour later.
Well, after some pretty heavy rain overnight here in London the clouds are lifting the the sun is breaking through just in time for commence of play.
It's still pretty damp underfoot but the covers have been on the outdoor courts here which means we should be good to go in just over 10 minutes time.
And the good news is, it looks set to stay clear out there for the rest of the day with the forecast showing temperatures of up to 21 degrees. Lovely!
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Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova suggested her British opponent may have received preferential treatment as simmering tensions around Wimbledon’s use of electronic line calling (ELC) instead of line judges boiled over Sunday, when the technology malfunctioned at a crucial point on Centre Court.
Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was serving at 4-4, Ad-40 in the first set of her fourth-round match against Britain’s Sonay Kartal, when Kartal hit a backhand that clearly bounced out.
There was no call from the ELC, which replaced line judges for the first time in Wimbledon’s 148-year history. Pavlyuchenkova was waiting for the call, and umpire Nico Helwerth stopped the point before an automated sound saying “stop, stop” could be heard.
After a lengthy break while he spoke to tournament officials, Helwerth explained to the players and the Centre Court crowd that the technology had not been working during the point, which meant it would be replayed. This was despite television footage confirming that Kartal’s shot had been well long, and that the point and the game should have been Pavlyuchenkova’s.
Carlos Alcaraz has won almost everything there is to win in tennis, but he has spent most of 2025 going after one of the sport’s least desirable accolades: being labeled a serve bot.
The term was coined to describe giants such as John Isner of the U.S. and Croatia’s Ivo Karlović, who were perceived as being able to do little other than bang down big serves from their close-to-seven-feet frames.
Alcaraz turning it into something aspirational reflects two wider trends in tennis. The first is the reclamation of the term by a new generation of players, all of whom like to log their speed-gun readings, but also want to win the biggest prizes in the sport.
The second is that being a serve bot, and having a faster serve than everybody else, is no longer the most important edge in men’s tennis.
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If you missed any of Sunday's action from Wimbledon? Check out the Tennis Podcast for some more terrific analysis.
Today's men's singles matches in the round of 16:
Wimbledon’s second-biggest and second-most important court, with a seating capacity of 12,345 (singer Lou Bega’s ears have perked up).
Opened in 1997, it was renovated in 2019 and has a retractable roof.
Due on it today: Ekaterina Alexandrova [18] vs. Belinda Bencic, Ben Shelton [10] vs. Lorenzo Sonego and Iga Swiatek [8] v Clara Tauson [23].
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Arguably, it’s the most famous tennis court in the world.
It is the main showpiece court, only ever used at the Wimbledon Championships (apart from the 2012 London Olympic Games), and has a capacity of 14,979.
Distinguished guests sit in the Royal Box, with a 3,000-tonne retractable roof installed in 2009.
The inscription above the entrance quotes Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’: “If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same.”
Wise words for anyone playing on it.
There is some serious history behind the trophies received by the two Wimbledon singles champions.
The men’s singles trophy was first presented in 1887 — cup-shaped and standing 18 inches high, with a diameter of seven-and-a-half inches.
A for the women’s singles trophy, that was first presented a year earlier — dish-shaped with a mythological theme, it is known as the Rosewater Dish or Venus Rosewater Dish.
The winner of both will receive a three-quarter size replica bearing the names of all past champions.
This year at Wimbledon the singles champions take home a pretty tasty prize pot.
Both the men’s and women’s singles champion will win an equal prize pot of £3million each.
That would set up the summer pretty nicely …
