Wimbledon Outsiders 2025: Six Each-Way Chances From Men's And Women's Draw

The grass-court season is in full swing as attention turns to Wimbledon which started on Monday in sweltering conditions.

Carlos Alcaraz is bidding to join Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Pete Sampras and Bjorn Borg in winning at the All England Club three years in a row during the Open era.

The Spaniard won the Queen’s title for a second time last week and remains the favourite on betting sites to win the men’s singles at Wimbledon once more despite taking five sets to beat Italian veteran Fabio Fognini in the opening round. 

Alcaraz faces British qualifier and world number 733 Oliver Tarvet next.

Women's world number one Aryna Sabalenka has never won the Wimbledon singles title, but she is the clear 13/8 favourite to win this year, having fallen at the semi-final stage in her last couple of visits to SW19.

The Belarusian opened her campaign with a 6-1 7-5 victory over American Carson Branstine.

There have been surprising winners in the women’s event in the last couple of years, so could that be the case again?

Gambling.com takes a look at some of the Wimbledon outsiders and each-way tips that could cause a stir in the men’s and women’s championships over the fortnight.  

Wimbledon Each-Way Bets: Draper Can Draw On Home Support

British number one Jack Draper could take over the mantle from two-time champion Andy Murray at Wimbledon over the next two weeks.

Draper moved up to fourth in the world rankings with his deep run at Queen’s where a bout of tonsillitis ruined his chances of beating Jiri Lehecka in the semi-finals.

The 23-year-old Londoner has never made it beyond the second round in three attempts at Wimbledon, where he took a set off Novak Djokovic on his 2021 debut, but he has taken one notable scalp on grass.

Last year, he defeated Alcaraz in straight sets at Queen’s a week after winning his first grass-court title in Stuttgart where he beat the likes of Frances Tiafoe, Brandon Nakashima and Matteo Berrettini.  

Alcaraz and Sinner may have won the last six grand slam titles between them, but with the crowd on his side, hard-hitting Draper is capable of going deep into the tournament.

However, he has a tough path which includes a potential quarter-final clash with Djokovic and then Sinner in the last four, if he gets that far, and is now 18/1 on tennis betting sites - up from 12/1 before the draw was made.

Wimbledon Outsiders: Bublik On Upward Trajectory

Alexander Bublik revealed he was considering quitting the sport after last year’s third-round exit at Wimbledon, but the Kazakh is back to his best.

Bublik moved into the world’s top 30 when he won the grass-court event at Halle for a second time with his first victory over Daniil Medvedev in seven attempts.

That win guaranteed Bublik is seeded at Wimbledon and has avoided some of the big guns in the opening couple of rounds.

Bublik is scheduled to face Draper in round three, but after his triumph in Halle, the French Open quarter-finalist said: “I had such tough months since last Wimbledon to probably this summer.

“I was close to calling it quits after Wimbledon, because I was not enjoying it anymore.”

Bublik is a temperamental player, but he’s on a hot streak and looks an interesting dark horse at 45/1 with betting apps.

Wimbledon Dark Horses: Fritz Fits The Bill 

The best value of the three players to win the Wimbledon men’s title surely has to be Taylor Fritz, who has twice reached the quarter-finals in the previous three years.

The American won the Eastbourne title for a record-extending fourth time last week, having also added another grass-court trophy to his cabinet in Stuttgart.

Fritz remains 40/1 with Unibet to win a first grand slam title at Wimbledon, but he is already in danger of being eliminated.

The fifth seed lost the opening two sets to world number 36 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, but levelled the match before play was suspended at 10.18pm on Monday because of the 11pm curfew.

In a one-set shoot-out anything could happen, but the momentum is with Fritz.

Wimbledon Women’s Outsiders: Gauff Eyes Back-To-Back Slams

Coco Gauff was one of Gambling.com’s outsiders for the French Open, if she can be called that, and duly obliged at 7/1.

The American is priced slightly higher at 8/1 with BetMGM to add a maiden Wimbledon title to the one she won at Roland Garros.

Those odds might be explained by her straight-sets defeat to world number 49 Wang Xinyu in Berlin in her first match since her spectacular triumph in Paris.

Gauff has yet to make it to the quarter-finals in five attempts at Wimbledon, but she has reached the fourth round on three occasions, most recently last year when she was eliminated by Emma Navarro.

It’s slightly concerning Gauff did not play at either Eastbourne or Bad Homburg last week which means she is slightly undercooked in her bid for a third major title.

Gauff faces Dayana Yastremska in her opening match against whom she leads 3-0 in the head to head and is scheduled to meet two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka in round two.

Wimbledon Each-Way Chances: Vondrousova Back In Business

It’s been a frustrating 12 months for Marketa Vondrousova, who in 2023 became the first unseeded player to win the women’s singles at Wimbledon.

Last summer, though, she started to struggle with a shoulder injury.

The Czech underwent surgery after Wimbledon which forced her to miss the rest of the season and although she returned to action in January, a thigh injury forced her to miss the Australian Open.

The Czech made her comeback at this year’s French Open where she took third seed Jessica Pegula to three sets in the third round.

Remarkably, she then beat Madison Keys, Diana Shnaider and world number one Aryna Sabalenka en route to winning the title in Berlin last week.

The former world number six is unseeded once again at Wimbledon where she made a decent start by defeating Nottingham champion McCartney Kessler in straight sets in round one.

Vondrousova was 20/1 in our original preview, but her odds have been cut to 16/1 with SpreadEx ahead of her second-round clash with British number one Emma Raducanu.

Wimbledon Dark Horses: Paolini A Crowd Favourite

Italian Jasmine Paolini wowed Wimbledon with her stunning run to last year’s final just a few weeks after reaching the French Open showpiece.

In Paris, she was swept aside by the ‘Queen of Clay’ Iga Swiatek, but last year she had a realistic chance of winning her first grand slam when she came up against Barbora Krejcikova.

Centre Court was fully behind the energetic Italian when she took the final to a deciding set, but it was the Czech who prevailed.

The 2024 Olympic doubles gold medallist delighted her home fans by winning the biggest tournament of her career last month when she beat Gauff in the Italian Open final.

Despite her stature (she is just 5ft 4in), Paolini has a big heart and her aggressive style will trouble the world’s best.

The world number four won the only meeting with Sabalenka on grass, so she has that in her favour.

However, she lost the opening set to Latvian Anastasija Sevastova in her first-round tie at Wimbledon this year and her odds have drifted from 28/1 to 40/1 with BoyleSports.