See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Wednesday 25th June, 2025!
Eastbourne International top seed Taylor Fritz kicks off his title defence against Brazilian 18-year-old Joao Fonesca.
World No.5 Fritz has dominated this event, lifting the trophy in 2019, 2023 and 2024.
The two-time Wimbledon quarter-finalist started the grass season on fire – beating Alexander Zverev in the Stuttgart Open final – but was upset in his Queen’s Club opener by Corentin Moutet on a short turnaround.
Climbing to a new high ranking of No.57 by reaching the third round of the French Open, Fonesca lost a marathon encounter to Flavio Cobolli in the first round of the Halle Open but produced an excellent comeback to sink Zizou Bergs 6-7 6-0 6-3 first up in Eastbourne.
Fonesca has one top-10 scalp to his name, rolling Andrey Rublev at the Australian Open. But Fritz’s success at this tournament and blazing start to his Wimbledon build-up is impossible to overlook here.
Big-name duo Elina Svitolina and Beatriz Haddad Maia meet for the first time in the Bad Homburg Open’s Round of 16.
World No.14 Svitolina defeated Elise Mertens 7-5 6-4 in the first round – her first match since a French Open quarter-final loss to Iga Swiatek.
Haddad Maia, ranked 21st, is coming off a 6-1 6-4 defeat of Ashlyn Krueger in the first round.
The Brazilian’s been busy since a first-round loss to Hailey Baptiste at Roland Garros, beating Petra Kvitova then losing to Emma Navarro at Queen’s Club, then getting rolled first up by Mccartney Kessler at the Nottingham Open’s top seed.
Haddad Maia won titles in Nottingham and Birmingham in 2022, while she has been to the last 16 at Wimbledon. Svitolina has never made it to the final of a grass-court event but she is a two-time Wimbledon quarter-finalist – and a far more reliable formline makes her the clear pick in this one.
World No.7 Mirra Andreeva is searching for some pre-Wimbledon momentum at the Bad Homburg Open, where she kicks off her tournament in the Round of 16 against 23rd-ranked Clara Tauson.
The pair have already met three times in 2025, with Andreeva winning all three – at the Dubai Championships and Indian Wells in straight sets, and at the Rome Masters 5-7 6-3 6-2.
Andreeva’s strong clay swing concluded with quarter-final runs in Madrid, Rome and at the French Open. But she was upset by Magdalena Frech in the first round of the Berlin Open last week. She made the fourth round on Wimbledon debut as a 16-year-old two years ago.
Tauson’s career-best season has plateaued somewhat lately, though she showed some solid form at the Nottingham Open before losing to Magda Linette in the quarters. She beat Frech 6-7 6-3 6-3 in the first round her on Monday.
The Dane is a tempting $3 outsider given their contrasting result against Frech on the same surface in recent weeks – and she has doubled her top-10 win tally in 2025 by beating Aryna Sabalenka and Emma Navarro – but Andreeva still looks the safer option to cover in this one.
After a drought-breaking win in the first round, Australian bad boy Bernard Tomic now takes on Spanish stalwart Roberto Bautista Agut in the Mallorca Championships’ Round of 16.
Tomic qualified for his first ATP main draw in more than four years with wins over Jesper De Jong and Aleksandar Kovacevic. He then chalked up another top-100 scalp in the first round courtesy of a stirring 3-6 7-5 6-2 win over countryman Rinky Hijikata.
It’s a surprising run from the 2011 Wimbledon quarter-finalist and former world No.17 that illustrates his undeniable, albeit largely wasted, talent.
World No.43 Bautista Agut, a former top-10 star and a Wimbledon semi-finalist in 2019, was the runner-up in Mallorca only two years ago.
Meanwhile, after a modest clay swing, he stormed into the Queen’s Club semi-finals last week with wins over Nuno Borges and higher-ranked duo Jakub Mensik and Holger Rune, before going down to Carlos Alcaraz.
The 37-year-old grittily fought back to eliminate Tomas Martin Etcheverry 57 6-3 6-2 in the first round here.
Bautista Agut has a 2-1 lead in the head-to-head, winning the most recent clash at the 2019 Canadian Masters. He’s a $1.25 favourite here and should get the win, but this shapes as a tough, lengthy battle if the towering Tomic can maintain his recent confidence surge and serving strength.