Jannik Sinner is defending his Wimbledon crown on iPlayer Wimbledon, and the men’s draw already looks thinner than the title picture suggested. Carlos Alcaraz is absent because of a wrist injury, while Jack Draper has withdrawn after a recurrence of his arm injury.
Sinner’s latest result gives him the cleanest line through the bracket so far: a 7-5, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 win over Jan-Lennard Struff. Novak Djokovic also stayed in the mix with a five-set win over Felix Auger-Aliassime, 7-6 (12-10), 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (10-4).
Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic
Sinner’s draw position matters because he is defending the title without the player who won Wimbledon in 2023 and 2024. That leaves Djokovic and Alexander Zverev as the other headline names still active in the men’s singles picture, with the bracket now shaped more by who remains than by who arrived with the biggest reputation.
Zverev’s results have also been strong enough to keep him in the conversation. He beat Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 and earlier defeated Jiri Lehecka 6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), which keeps the upper end of the draw tight even before the later rounds sort out the title contenders.
Carlos Alcaraz and Jack Draper
Alcaraz’s absence removes the one player whose recent Wimbledon record gave the draw a clean challenger to Sinner. Draper’s withdrawal does something different but just as concrete for the home-interest side of the event: it takes a British contender out of the field after his arm injury returned.
Other results around the draw show how quickly the field can change. Arthur Fery beat Flavio Cobolli 6-4, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 and also came through Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10-7), while Cobolli had already beaten Alex de Minaur 7-5, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3.
Wimbledon in the men’s draw
Felix Auger-Aliassime split two different outcomes in the update: he lost to Djokovic, but earlier beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (8-6), 6-3, 6-7 (2-7), 6-1. Hubert Hurkacz also exited after Struff’s 3-6, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-2), 7-5, 4-2 retired win, which is the kind of result that can open a section of the draw fast.
For readers tracking iPlayer Wimbledon, the practical read is simple: Sinner remains the benchmark, Djokovic and Zverev are still pressing, and the absence of Alcaraz plus Draper’s withdrawal has already changed the shape of the tournament. The rest of the men’s singles results will decide whether that missing firepower becomes a brief footnote or the defining edge in Sinner’s title defense.
