The sports betting calendar here at Bodog Sportsbook has officially turned to summer. The 2024-25 NHL and NBA seasons are over, and the 2025 NFL preseason doesn’t start until July 31 – which means we’ve finally got a moment to catch our breath after a very busy year.
Time’s up: The 2025 Wimbledon Championships get underway this Monday at the famed All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in southwest London; it’s the oldest and still the most important of the four Grand Slam events in tennis, and you can bet on this year’s winners right now at Bodog.
Before you hit up our tennis odds page, there are some very important details regarding Wimbledon that you should know about. We’ve got all the dirt for you here in Bodog’s 2025 Wimbledon betting preview, including this year’s top Canadian hopefuls and their chances of securing victory at SW19.
Wimbledon Betting: The Favourites
We begin with the men’s singles – still officially known as Gentlemen’s Singles – where it’s no surprise to see the World’s No. 1 and No. 2 players at the top of our Wimbledon odds board. Carlos Alcaraz is the very slight +140 favourite as we go to press, followed closely by Jannik Sinner (+160).
Tennis fans across the globe are hoping for the same kind of spectacle we were just treated to at Roland Garros, where Alcaraz came back from two sets down to defeat Sinner for the 2025 French Open title. That was indeed one of the greatest matches in the history of the sport – but would this rivalry play out the same way on Wimbledon’s grass courts as it did on the Parisian clay?
Perhaps. While grass remains the fastest of the three common surfaces in tennis (hardcourt being the third), the differences between grass and clay have been minimized over the past 20 years or so. By switching from a 70/30 blend of perennial rye grass and creeping red fescue to 100% rye in 2001, and by introducing larger “type 3” balls for this surface in 2002, grass-court tennis has become a slower game. Serve-and-volley tactics gave way to the same baseline-focused approach you see on other surfaces; we crossed the Rubicon in 2008 when clay-court specialist Rafael Nadal won the first of his two Wimbledon titles.
There’s still a distinct advantage at SW19 for players with big serves. Think Roger Federer, who won a record eight titles at Wimbledon between 2003 and 2017 – or if you prefer a Canadian archetype, Milos Raonic, who made it all the way to the final in 2016 before losing to Andy Murray. As it turns out, Sinner and Alcaraz both have cannonating serves, as does third-favourite and seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic (+650).
The same dynamic holds true for the women’s draw, or Ladies’ in this case, where Aryna Sabalenka is the +260 favourite at press time ahead of Elena Rybakina (+550) and Coco Gauff (+700). All three can tear the cover off the ball, although Rybakina is well ahead of the pack with 235 aces in 2025.
Sabalenka is the World’s No. 1 and coming off a magical 2024 campaign where she won both the Australian Open (her second) and US Open, but she has yet to taste victory away from the hard court, or even reach the final at SW19. Sabalenka’s best Wimbledon results were semifinal appearances in 2021 and 2023, and she just lost the 2025 French Open final to Gauff in three sets.
As for Gauff, she’s never been past the fourth round at Wimbledon. You live by the sword, you die by the sword; Gauff has more double-faults (241) than anyone else on the WTA Tour this year, far more than Sabalenka (99) despite playing 40 matches thus far to Sabalenka’s 50.
Meanwhile, of the top three women’s favourites, Rybakina is the only one to hold aloft that silver Venus Rosewater Dish, claiming her only major tennis championship in 2022. She’s the value pick here after nearly putting away Sabalenka during the quarterfinals of the Berlin Open, losing in three sets last Friday after dropping four match points.
The Canadian Hopes
Aside from Junior events – and Doubles, where Daniel Nestor (three times, including once in Mixed Doubles) and Vasek Pospisil (once) have each tasted victory – there has never been a Canadian champion at Wimbledon. Raonic came the closest on the men’s draw, while Eugenie Bouchard also reached the women’s final in 2014, only to fall victim to Petra Kvitova.
It has to happen sometime. There are three Canadians in the ATP Tour Rankings Top 100 at press time:
27. Felix Auger-Aliassime
29. Denis Shapovalov
41. Gabriel Diallo
Shapovalov was Canada’s biggest hope for Wimbledon glory after winning the men’s Junior title in 2016, but despite reaching the semifinals in 2021 – one round further than Auger-Aliassime, in a career best for both men – you’ll find these compatriots tied at +20000 on Bodog’s Wimbledon futures market. Diallo, the youngest of this trio at age 23, is unlisted as he tries to improve on his second-round finish from 2023 and 2024.
Canada also has two players in the WTA Top 100:
29. Leylah Fernandez
96. Victoria Mboko
If you’re wondering what happened to Bianca Andreescu, the 2019 US Open champion is ranked No. 147 after her promising career has been sidetracked by injuries. Andreescu is the only Canadian to win a major singles title; she’s available at +8000, with Fernandez (a 2021 US Open finalist, but yet to reach Wimbledon’s third round) sitting at +17500, and the 18-year-old Mboko unlisted as she prepares for her SW19 debut in qualifying action.
Of these six Canadians, Andreescu is the most likely to succeed this year at Wimbledon – despite all those setbacks. After making her return in 2024 from a nine-month layoff with an injured back, then sitting out the first three months of 2025 following an emergency appendectomy, Andreescu has shown some flashes of her former self. Her Round of 32 win over Rybakina at the WTA clay-court event in Rome was a reminder that anything is possible when you’ve got a strong all-around game to pair with your powerful serve.
Wimbledon History: Memorable Moments
As with most sports, we tend to forget the early years of tennis – and Wimbledon (founded in 1877) has the earliest years of any tournament. But this sport is particularly unforgiving to its past champions; professional players were banned from Grand Slam events until the Open Era began in 1968, so if you’re familiar with names like Bill Tilden, Fred Perry, Suzanne Lenglen and Althea Gibson, you’re indeed a true fan of tennis.
Not many of us were around to see Rod Laver kick off the Open Era with back-to-back Wimbledon men’s singles titles in 1968 and 1969. Laver would go on to complete his second Grand Slam in 1969, seven years after his first; he remains the only man aside from Don Budge (1938) to do so, while Margaret Court (1970) and Steffi Graf (1988) followed in the amateur footsteps of Maureen Connolly (1953) to complete the Slam proper.
For specific moments at SW19, it’s hard to beat the 1980 men’s singles final between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, which Borg won in five sets – after McEnroe had valiantly fought back from five match points during a tiebreaker to take the fourth set 18-16. But McEnroe gave us his signature catchphrase the following year during a second-round tilt with Tom Gullikson, when he yelled “You cannot be serious” at umpire Ted James after an unfavourable ruling.
Other amazing moments at Wimbledon include Martina Navratilova’s record-breaking ninth women’s singles title in 1990, and that mind-blowing 2010 first-round men’s match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut that required three days for Isner to prevail 70-68 in the fifth set. But if Sinner and Alcaraz give us another show like they just did in Paris, that might end up topping our list.
Tennis Odds: Bodog’s Best Bets
It might seem a bit odd to find Sinner so close behind Alcaraz on the Wimbledon betting board given he has yet to reach the final. Alcaraz leads their career series 8-4, sweeping their last five matches. However, the only time they met on grass was at Wimbledon in 2022, and Sinner took that Round of 16 match in four sets.
Whichever order you put these gentlemen in, they belong at the top. Djokovic has the proverbial puncher’s chance at age 38, being a seven-time champion and all, but “The Djoker” hasn’t won Wimbledon since 2022, or any major since 2023. And it’s a steep drop from there to No. 4 favourite Jack Draper at +1200, not to mention No. 5 Alexander Bublik at +2800.
There’s considerably more drama in the women’s draw, where eight different champions have been crowned the past eight years. This is where you can find deep value on the longer shots; Rybakina, for example, was available at +10000 heading into the 2022 Championships, as were Marion Bartoli in 2013 and Marketa Vondrousova in 2023.
This year’s best bet might be someone a bit more familiar. Iga Swiatek (+1200) is a former World’s No. 1 and a four-time French Open champion, but she’s never made it past the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, despite her strong and accurate serve. Swiatek is also coming off a disappointing start to the 2025 campaign, following a controversial one-month suspension for a banned substance where the ruling found “No Significant Fault or Negligence” on her part.
Given how much shorter careers tend to be on the women’s side, it’s entirely possible Swiatek is already on the downside at age 24. She’ll also face a more difficult draw than the top seeds at Wimbledon after falling to No. 8 in the WTA rankings. But the “Queen of Clay” has already made headlines on grass, defeating former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 6-4 in Tuesday’s opening match at the Bad Homburg Open. Maybe this will finally be her year.
Wimbledon betting at Bodog Sportsbook will get even busier as June 30 approaches and the first-round matchups are set for both the men’s and women’s draws. Game lines and set lines for each match will be posted. In the meantime, break out the strawberries and cream, keep hitting that refresh button for the latest Wimbledon futures odds, and we’ll see you at SW19.