Wimbledon 2025: Round 3 men’s singles order of play on July 4, schedule and live streaming

Wimbledon 2025: Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz and Taylor Fritz are among the top seeds in the contingent of 16 players who will play Round 3 on July 4

Carlos Alcaraz in Round 3 of WImbledon

It’s day 5 of the Wimbledon main draw and the playing field is already down to 32 only, with hot favourites for the title, defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, multiple-time winner and last year’s runner up Novak Djokovic and World No.1 Jannik Sinner the top favourites for a shot at the title. The first set of 16 players will be on court on July 4, with matches expected to start at 4.40 pm (IST).

Only 5 seeded players are among these 16 on court today, namely Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz, Andrey Rublev, Karen Khachanov and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. Alcaraz had a shaky start beginning with a 5-set first round match, but then got his act together in the second. Fritz has had 2 5-set deciders already, while Khachanov’s second-round encounter went all the way to a fifth. Rublev has not been stretched all the way yet, but both his matches so far had him lose a set, while Fokina, who plays Fritz today, is fresh off of a four-set second-round match.

Also read: Wimbledon 2024: Carlos Alcaraz stuns Novak Djokovic for second consecutive title win

Match timings are subject to change, given duration of preceding match on the court. For instance, if Frtiz has another 5 set match, Alcaraz will head to Centre Court much after 9 pm, The broadcast partner of Wimbledon in India is the Star Sports Network, with live stream of select matches available on JioHotstar, and, by extension on OTTplay Premium.

On July 5, is when Novak Djokovic who now has 99 wins at Wimbledon, over the 19 years that he’s been playing the tournament, will be in action again. Djokovic has been trying to get to a 25th Grand Slam title, but lost out to Alcaraz in 2023 and 2024. The young Spaniard and Italian Jannik Sinner will be the biggest obstacles on the Serb’s path.

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