Wimbledon 2025 is shaping up to be a bloodbath, and Tommy Paul is the latest domino to fall. Paul, the No. 13 seed and one of the highest-ranked Americans at the tournament, fell to Austrian Sebastian Ofner in four sets.
Paul was dominant to start, taking the first set 6-1. But then Ofner fought back, taking the next three highly-contested sets, 7-5, 6-4, 7-5. Though Paul outplayed Ofner across several key stats, the Austrian played boldly, picking up nearly 50 unforced errors but also winning more overall points.
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This year’s Wimbledon has already seen a huge number of upsets in the first two rounds of play. On the women’s side, four of the five top-seeded players were eliminated in the first three days. Several top men’s players, including No. 3-seeded Alexander Zverev and No. 4-seeded Jack Draper have also lost in the early rounds of the tournament.
Paul’s loss also leaves Wimbledon with few Americans remaining, both for the men and women. Frances Tiafoe, ranked No. 12, lost to Cameron Norrie on Tuesday, while several unseeded Americans are already out of the men’s singles tournament. On the women’s side, Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff were both eliminated after first-round losses in straight sets.
The highest-seeded American man still left in the tournament is Taylor Fritz, the No. 5 seed, who advanced to the third round after a five-set marathon against unseeded Canadian Gabriel Diallo. Fritz survived quite a challenge from Diallo, dropping the first set and picking up a crucial tiebreaker before eventually finishing out the match.
