Can a former winner turn back the clock against a top-ten player in the world on Day 2 at Wimbledon?
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Enters Wimbledon in reasonable shape with a Quarter Final run at Eastbourne, with her first-round opponent Maria Sakkari.
The Greek has had a horror 2025. We expected her fortunes to turn in an easy quarter at the French Open but she didn’t even get out of the first-round losing to the French wildcard.
Sakkari has never done much at Wimbledon across her career – hard to see that changing here in career worst form.
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Had an epic Wimbledon run in 2023, but not much since for Christopher Eubanks.
That being said, the American is a proven grass court performer across his career which is more than what we can say about Jesper De Jong.
The Dutchman just lost to Bernard Tomic in the qualifiers in Mallorca, with his only win this lead-up against a player ranked 1159 in the world in Halle – it took De Jong three sets.
If Eubanks can land his first serves at a reasonable clip, he should win this.
Last year’s Champion Barbora Krejcikova might not be playing Wimbledon if she wasn’t the defending champ.
The Czech was forced to withdraw from Eastbourne, while Alexandra Eala went through to reach the Final there.
No doubt Krejcikova will make it difficult for the 20-year-old Filipino, but Eala really should advance here due to the injury cloud surrounding the Czech.
This screams of five sets. Michelsen has played in three grass court events in the lead-up which will go a long way for the 20-year-old, while Kecmanovic is experienced on the surface.
The Serbian has made the third-round here last year and in 2022, while Michelsen has only played once at Wimbledon – last year where he lost in the first-round to Lloyd Harris.
Kecmanovic beat Michelsen on hard courts at the start of this year, with this being the third meeting of between the pair in 2025. Think it will only need four sets to cover this total games line.
What can I say about Yoshihito Nishioka? Well, in 2025 the Japanese is 9-10, and has retired from five of his last eight matches.
Dimitrov hasn’t had any lead-up on grass since the French Open, but the Bulgarian has been an accustomed player on grass his entire career.
With a 3-0 career record over Nishioka winning all six sets, even if the Japanese challenges Grigor early I expect him to fall in a heap – the Bulgarian to pinch a 6-1 or 6-0 set somewhere along the way.
Value Bet
Has been such a good player on grass over her career, winning the Wimbledon crown twice.
Petra Kvitova certainly isn’t the player she once was, but Emma Navarro isn’t in the best form this year – since March, the American is 11-11.
Despite Kvitova just 1-6 this year, the 35-year-old has won the first set five of those seven matches – she purely lacks the fitness to win out. No reason why she can’t continue this trend on her favourite surface.
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Opelka (M) / Dimitrov (M) / Baptiste (W) / Jovic (W) / Juvan (W) / Maria (W) = $5.25