Way Too Early Grand Slam Predictions for 2025

Even as the dust barely settles on the 2024 Slam season, we’re already looking at what next year could look like. While we’ve yet to see the ATP and WTA Finals, 2025 looks set to be as competitive and unpredictable as ever.

This could be the year we see youngsters like Mirra Andreeva break through on the women’s stage, with established favourites Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff and Elena Rybakina challenging for titles, and Jessica Pegula, Qinwen Zheng, Jasmine Paolini and Ons Jabeur pushing the top group. We’d love to see a run from Naomi Osaka.

On the men’s side, there’s Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev, of course, but there’s also Rafael Nadal working in the shadows, looking for one last hurrah. Then there’s the likes of Andrey Rublev, Grigor Dimitrov, Casper Ruud and Holger Rune knocking on the door, and breakout stars like Jack Draper looking for their first Grand Slams.

So, who wins what next year? Here’s a taste of how things could play out in 2025.

Australian Open

When: January 12-26

Where: Melbourne, Australia

Defending champions: Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka

Winner in the men’s category in 2025: Novak Djokovic

For only the second time since 2010, Djokovic will not win a Grand Slam in 2024. While he achieved a career goal by winning Olympic gold, it was shocking to see him miss out on a major title. But he is far from done. There seems to be a fire still burning inside him and he will want to keep the young players at bay. Djokovic appeared frustrated at times, saying his US Open was some of the “worst” tennis he has ever played, but he will be back in Melbourne looking to win a record-extending 11th title.

Women’s winner in 2025: Aryna Sabalenka

After winning the US Open on Saturday, Sabalenka looks the dominant force on this surface. She’s playing brilliant tennis and could have added to her Slam total in 2024 had she not fallen ill in Paris and then suffered a shoulder injury before Wimbledon. So if you take those two out, her record is two Slams, two wins. Not bad.

Roland Garros

When: May 25-June 8

Where: Paris

Defending champions: Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek

Winner in the men’s category in 2025: Carlos Alcaraz

We’ve said this before, but expect an emotional Roland Garros if it’s Nadal’s final appearance. While he’s one of the few who can still produce one last bit of magic on clay, the 2024 edition felt like a passing of the torch. Now it’s Alcaraz’s world on clay, and we’re living it. He’s looked a little confused of late, with an early exit at the US Open, but he’ll be right at home on clay.

Women’s winner in 2025: I’m going to Swiatek

Swiatek is an astonishing force on clay. It must be frustrating to play her because even when she is vulnerable and loses a set, she finds a way to reach an even higher standard. We saw Swiatek fall apart at Roland Garros in the Olympics, where she lost the semi-finals to Zheng, but she showed enormous character to come back and win bronze. Sabalenka will be there, Paolini will challenge again and if Osaka can find a way to replicate her 2024 clay form over a full tournament, then she will be challenging for silverware. But that still seems destined for Swiatek.

Wimbledon

When: June 30-July 13

Where: London

Defending champions: Carlos Alcaraz and Barbora Krejcikova.

Winner in the men’s category in 2025: Jack Draper

This is by far the hardest title to predict. Djokovic loves this tournament, Alcaraz knows what it takes to win it, as we already know, and Sinner will challenge. But let’s be bold and dream. So maybe it’s Draper’s time. The young Briton showed brilliant form to reach the semi-finals of the US Open, and he looks set to step into the shoes of the great Andy Murray as the next tennis hope for Britain. So with more than a hint of keeping everything crossed, maybe it’s Draper’s year?

Women’s winner in 2025: Our Jabeur

On the women’s side, who did Marketa Vondrousova and Krejcikova really have to win the last two Wimbledon tournaments? So this is also unpredictable and it’s going to be chaotic. There are probably 20 contenders for this title. Rybakina is always in the mix but struggled towards the end of 2024, while Pegula could put together a case to win the whole thing, but we’re going with an outsider. Come on, Ons Jabeur. After a frustrating, injury-riddled 2024, if she can recapture her form of 2022 and 2023, which saw her reach the finals back-to-back, she’ll have the experience to go one better and win her first Grand Slam.

US Open

When: August 25 – September 6

Where: New York

Defending champions: Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka

Winner in the men’s category in 2025: Jannik Sinner

There will be an American winner of the men’s tournament in 2026 — Frances Tiafoe, Ben Shelton or Taylor Fritz — but 2025 will be Sinner’s year again. We’ve seen how well he does on hard courts, and if we’re right about Djokovic coming out of the blocks a million miles an hour at the start of the year, then Sinner could be there to finish it off. While Djokovic will be a familiar opponent all year, the absence of the Big Three means we’re entering a new era of men’s tennis where there will be no dominant force and instead, Slam titles will be shared. Sinner could win the final Slam of the year, but expect the American contingent to push him hard.

Women’s winner in 2025: Coco Gauff

The 2024 US Open didn’t go according to plan for Gauff. She entered the competition as the reigning champion, but a flurry of 60 unforced errors and 19 double faults saw her time at Flushing Meadows come to an abrupt end against Emma Navarro.

But not in 2025. Gauff’s career is cyclical: she will string together a brilliant 12 months, then perhaps consolidate the following year. In 2025, it will be her year again, and now that she has the experience needed to win on home soil, she will come back for more, but she will have Sabalenka, Swiatek, Pegula, Andreeva and Osaka on her tail.