Will the Hamburg native also impress in the main draw?
For the first time in her young career, Ella Seidel has made it through all three qualifying rounds at the Wimbledon Championships, securing her place in the women’s singles draw. This is already the biggest career success for the 20-year-old from Hamburg, but she is by no means ready to give up without a fight. It is certainly not out of the question that Jessica Bouzas Maneiro will prevail over Ella Seidel.
However, Jessica Bouzas Maneiro is no longer an unknown quantity. The Spaniard made her debut at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club two years ago and reached the third round of the Wimbledon Championships for the first time last year. Due in part to her experience advantage, the top bookmakers are favoring Jessica Bouzas Maneiro to win against Ella Seidel.
Neither player has won a WTA Tour title yet, and both have had an extremely tough draw in the tournament. The winner could face Sofia Kenin (WTA 28) before the newly crowned French Open winner Coco Gauff (WTA 2) awaits in the third round. Nevertheless, as young talents on the WTA Tour, both players are living for the chance to earn their place in such prestigious matches.
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro – Statistics & current form
22-year-old Spaniard Jessica Bouzas Maneiro is still largely competing in ITF Women’s World Tennis Tour tournaments, but has increasingly managed to gain a foothold in the WTA Tour. This was largely due to her strong run at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, where she sensationally knocked reigning champion Markéta Vondrousova out of the competition in the first round.
However, the player from Vilagarcía de Arousa, Galicia, has not really been able to build on this great coup. Despite her interim rise to 52nd in the WTA world rankings (currently 62), her 2025 season has been rather unremarkable. She has won 15 singles matches, but lost 15. The 22-year-old lost her only singles match of the grass season in the first qualifying round of the Eastbourne Open against Heather Watson (WTA 148) 1-2.
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro still lacks consistency
So we are somewhat surprised that the odds are so clearly in favor of Jessica Bouzas Maneiro against Ella Seidel. At Betano, where new customers can also claim an exclusive €20 Betano free bet, odds of 1.70 are being offered for a win by the Galician, who is currently competing in the women’s singles of a Grand Slam tournament for the seventh time.
So far, the results have been relatively mixed. She has six wins and six losses, which also shows that the 22-year-old’s form on the day sometimes plays a big role. For example, at the 2025 French Open, she completely overwhelmed Emma Navarro, ranked ninth in the WTA world rankings, 2-0 in the first round, but ultimately lost 0-2 to Hailey Baptiste, ranked 70th in the rankings. Consistency looks very different indeed.
Ella Seidel – Statistics & current form
Since Angelique Kerber ended her career, tennis fans in Germany have been waiting for another player to emerge from the crowd and join the world’s elite. Twenty-year-old Ella Seidel is certainly one of their hopes. The Hamburg native became an indoor champion at the age of 13. Now she could soon reach the top 100 of the WTA world rankings for the first time in her career.
She is currently ranked 109th. Thanks to her three victories in the Wimbledon qualifiers, where Ella Seidel defeated Kayla Day, Jule Niemeier, and Jana Fett, she has already climbed to 103rd in the virtual rankings. If Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beats Ella Seidel and she advances to the second round of the women’s singles, she would climb up to 15 places – a unique opportunity to establish herself at the top and open the doors to many more tournaments on the WTA Tour.
Ella Seidel has already shown her talent several times in 2025
Currently, Ella Seidel, who generally prefers clay courts, has to compete mainly in the ITF, where she has already won five tournaments. Her record for the year stands at 25 wins and 19 losses, although it should be noted that the 20-year-old has won almost all of her matches outside the WTA Tour, or at most in qualifying rounds for WTA Tour tournaments.
However, she defeated her compatriot Tatjana Maria (WTA 81) at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, as well as Jaqueline Cristian (WTA 73) and Anna Blinkova (WTA 71) at the Transylvania Open in Romania, she has already beaten three opponents from the current top 100 of the WTA world rankings in 2025, underlining that she has no reason to hide from Jessica Bouzas Maneiro. This is especially true when she returns as strongly as she did in the qualifying final against Jana Fett (WTA 166), when the Hamburg native won an impressive 47 percent of return points on the fast grass court.
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro – Ella Seidel Head-to-head record
Head to head: 0:0
The two players have never crossed paths in a ranked singles match before. Consequently, there is no head-to-head data available that could influence our prediction for Jessica Bouzas Maneiro against Ella Seidel in any way.
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro – Ella Seidel Tip
The betting odds for Jessica Bouzas Maneiro against Ella Seidel are in favor of the Spaniard, who reached the third round of the Wimbledon Championships last year. However, this match will certainly not be a walk in the park for the Galician, especially as the young German has acclimatized excellently to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and won all three of her qualifying matches. The up-and-coming player from Hamburg has nothing to lose and could now win her first singles match in a Grand Slam tournament in her young career.
We certainly believe Ella Seidel is capable of winning at least one set, especially as her Spanish opponent, although she recorded her first two singles victories at Wimbledon a year ago, is by no means a heavyweight. The Galician also has some way to go to reach the world’s elite and is therefore definitely beatable.
