Will the Filderstadt native have to admit defeat?

At the advanced age of 37 in professional sports, Laura Siegemund once again played brilliantly in her opening match at the Wimbledon Championships, sweeping Payton Stearns off the court 2-0. It was only the third singles match the Filderstadt native has ever won in the women’s singles at the only Grand Slam tournament held on grass. There is therefore little to suggest that the German will now pull off another upset against Leylah Fernandez.

However, it should be noted that the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club has not been a particularly happy hunting ground for Leylah Fernandez either. The Canadian has only won two matches in three appearances in the women’s singles in the run-up to this year’s tournament and has never made it past the second round. Nevertheless, the odds are in Leylah Fernandez’s favor that she will achieve this feat for the first time this year against Laura Siegemund.

The Canadian also put in a very convincing performance in the first round, confidently defeating British wild card Hannah Klugman 2-0 (6-1, 6-3) while losing just four games. The Montreal native is ranked 29th in the world and just recorded a clean 2-0 victory over Tatjana Maria (WTA 45) in Bad Homburg before losing to Jasmine Paolini (WTA 2) in two close tiebreaks, 0-2.

Leylah Fernandez – Statistics & current form

The 22-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez celebrated her big breakthrough on the WTA Tour in the 2021 season. Not only did she win her first of three singles titles in the most important women’s division of tennis in Monterrey, but she also surprisingly reached the final of the US Open in the fall of 2021, where she lost 0-2 to Emma Raducanu.

Since then, things have gradually quietened down for the rising star, who has only made it past the second round in two of eleven Grand Slam tournaments since reaching the quarter-finals at the French Open in 2022. Most recently, she was knocked out in the opening match at the French Open in 2025 – a fate that the 22-year-old was able to avoid in London. She didn’t give Hannah Klugman (WTA 573) a chance, winning 2-0 (6-1, 6-3) and confidently dispatching the British local hero in just 72 minutes.

Leylah Fernandez with a high-quality return game in her opening match

Even now, Leylah Fernandez is tipped to win against Laura Siegemund, with the Montreal player looking to be in better shape, although there is no head-to-head data available between the two players, who are 15 years apart in age. Like the German, the Canadian often plays doubles, but her career focus is clearly on singles, where she has a rather unremarkable record of 16 wins and 16 losses in 2025.

Leylah Fernandez impressed in her opening match, especially with her return game. Not only did she win 50 percent of the points against her British opponent’s first serve, but she also won 67 percent of the points when Hannah Klugman had to play her second serve. This gave the 22-year-old six break points, five of which she converted (83 percent). This is likely to be the key to success against Laura Siegemund as well.

Laura Siegemund – Statistics & current form

37-year-old German Laura Siegemund has always had a penchant for doubles. In 2020, she won the US Open in women’s doubles alongside Russian Vera Zvonareva. She had previously won the mixed doubles with Mate Pavic at the US Open in 2016, before adding her third Grand Slam trophy in 2024 in mixed doubles with Édouard Roger-Vasselin. In singles, however, the Filderstadt native only won two relatively minor titles, in Bastad in 2016 and Stuttgart in 2017.

What is particularly striking is that when the German was alone on the court, she celebrated virtually all of her successes without exception on the slow clay court, which she clearly prefers. All 14 of her ITF singles titles and both of her WTA Tour tournament victories have come on this surface, where she also achieved her strongest Grand Slam performance in singles to date when she stormed into the quarterfinals of the French Open in 2020.

Laura Siegemund with a poor Wimbledon record

As with most clay court specialists, grass is somewhat of an Achilles’ heel. Laura Siegemund won only two of her seven singles matches at Wimbledon in the run-up to this year’s tournament, where the player, who has slipped to 104 in the WTA world rankings, failed to qualify two years ago. Her clean 2-0 opening victory against Peyton Stearns (WTA 36) was all the more surprising, although she impressed above all with her nerves of steel on break points. The 37-year-old saved five of six break points against her, so that four of eight break chances were enough to secure a 2-0 victory.

Nevertheless, with only 46 percent of points won on her second serve, the impression remains that it could have gone differently, which is why it comes as no surprise that the German is starting the second round as a clear underdog. At Winamax, where new customers can get an exclusive $10 free bet in addition to the welcome offer with our Winamax promo code, the odds for Leylah Fernandez against Laura Siegemund are 4.00 for another victory for the Filderstadt native.

Leylah Fernandez – Laura Siegemund Head-to-head comparison / H2H record

Head to head: 0:0

The two players have never crossed paths before and are now playing each other in a ranked singles match for the first time. There is therefore no head-to-head data available that could influence our prediction for Leylah Fernandez against Laura Siegemund.

Leylah Fernandez – Laura Siegemund Tip

The betting odds from the top bookmakers clearly favor Leylah Fernandez against Laura Siegemund. Although Fernandez has never made it past the second round of the Wimbledon Championships before, she now faces an aging opponent who recorded only her third singles victory ever at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London in her opening match. The Filderstadt native, who is much more focused on doubles anyway, is likely to be at a clear disadvantage on grass, which further exacerbates her underdog status.

Even winning a set would be something of a surprise for the German. Accordingly, the prediction for Leylah Fernandez against Laura Siegemund is that the Canadian, who started the tournament as the 29th seed, will secure another straight 2-0 victory.