Top six shocking results from round one at Wimbledon 2025
Round one saw 23 seeded players bow out of the Championships.
Wimbledon 2025 has proven to be heaven for the lower ranked players, and nightmare for the top seeds. Nobody has been spared, and even the two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz nearly escaped from a first-round exit.
Both ATP and WTA witnessed a series of stunning results, thereby opening the draws for newer faces to advance to the higher rounds. Today, we look at the top five results which shook the tennis fraternity, at the conclusion of round one.
Top six shocking results from round 1 at Wimbledon 2025
World No. 7 Lorenzo Musetti lost to #126 Nikoloz Basilashvili
Semi-finalist last year, Lorenzo Musetti was expected to make another deep run at SW19. Although the Italian showed decent form on clay this season, skipping a warm-up event on grass ultimately proved costly. Musetti had an ordinary day at the office, and the comeback he was hoping for simply never arrived.
Credit must go to Nikoloz Basilashvili for his all-round brilliance, from powerful serving to deft drop shots, as he made Musetti constantly move and dictated terms for most of the match. With this win, Basilashvili advances to the Wimbledon second round for the first time since 2022.
World No. 3 Jessica Pegula lost to #163 Elisabetta Cocciaretto
Just five days back, Jessica Pegula defeated Iga Swiatek to win the 2025 Bad Homburg Open. The win made her a contender for Wimbledon 2025. But such has been the story this decade, no woman has won two grass events in the same year, and the curse struck again. The American lost to Elisabetta Cocciaretto, ranked well outside the top-100.
Pegula was guilty of taking things too casually, with no rhythm and poor body language. However, she was possibly shocked to see her opponent’s performance, as Cocciaretto gave it her all, smashing the ball with consistency and winning points for fun. She stunned the third seed inside an hour, sending shockwaves to the rest of the WTA fraternity.
World No. 8 Holger Rune lost to #143 Nicolás Jarry
Holger Rune was expected to face Alcaraz in the fourth round, and he seemed to be on track half-way through his match, leading by two sets to none. However, in a dramatic sequence of events, Nicholas Jarry staged a tremendous comeback to complete a five-setter heist. The Danish reached the fourth round in 2024 and will leave the top-10 rankings due to his early exit.
World No. 3 Alexander Zverev lost to #72 Arthur Rinderknech
For a match that went on for two days, Arthur Rinderknech played the tennis of his life, to outlast Alexander Zverev in yet another five-set classic. The opening two sets went into tiebreaks, with both winning one each. Due to the curfew imposed, play resumed the following day, which began with plenty of frustration from Zverev, while the Frenchman kept a calm and steady head throughout the battle.
Despite the missed opportunities in the second and fourth set, Rinderknech eventually served his way to glory in the fifth set, to capture another sensational upset at Wimbledon 2025. The German meanwhile, finished in the round of 16 last year, but is expected to continue to hold on to his #3 ranking.
World No. 2 Coco Gauff lost to #42 Dayana Yastremska
Coco Gauff, fresh off her French Open triumph, suffered a shock first-round exit at Wimbledon 2025, losing 7-6(3), 6-1 to Dayana Yastremska. Struggling with 29 unforced errors and nine double faults, Gauff looked far from her best. The Ukrainian had never beaten the American in their previous three meetings, but stunned the World No. 2 late in the day, to add yet another upset to the tally.
The loss makes her only the third woman in the Open era to lose in the first round at Wimbledon after winning Roland-Garros.
World No. 9 Daniil Medvedev lost to #66 Benjamin Bonzi
Semi-finalist in 2023 and 2024, Daniil Medvedev arrived at SW19 with good form, making his first final in nearly two years at Halle. The Russian had a favourable draw until the fourth round, and there were expectations that he would roll back the clock.
However, it wasn’t to be, as Medvedev got outplayed by Benjamin Bonzi, who seemed to have an answer for every shot played by the ninth seed.
The decline has been massive for the former US Open champion, who is simply unable to muster wins despite playing on grass, a surface he has enjoyed a lot of success on, in the past. Despite the early exit, Medvedev continues to have hope for resurgence in the hard-court swing. He is set to leave the top-15 for the first time in two years.
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Aniruddh Seshadri Iyer is a passionate sports journalist at Khel Now, specializing in tennis and Olympic sports. An engineer by training, he found his storytelling passion through iconic Grand Slam and Olympic moments. Known for sharp analysis and insightful coverage, he draws inspiration from Novak Djokovic’s resilience. Outside journalism, he enjoys reading, traveling, and playing the guitar.
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