Wimbledon Men’s Champions: Every Winner Since 1968

A new name, or a repeat one, joins tennis’s most storied list on Sunday: the Wimbledon gentlemen’s singles champions, a roll call running from Rod Laver through Borg’s five straight, Sampras’s seven, Federer’s record eight, and the Alcaraz-Sinner handover of the last three years. Jannik Sinner defends against Alexander Zverev, and either result writes history: a first repeat champion since Djokovic, or a first-time Wimbledon winner completing the strangest redemption season in recent memory.

Here is every Open Era champion, the records inside the list, and what Sunday adds.

The chart below covers all 57 Open Era champions, the all-time title leaders, and the list’s greatest quirks. Take a look, then we’ll break it all down.

Federer’s Eight, and the Dynasty Habit

The men’s list is a study in ownership. Where the women’s roll call has produced nine different champions in nine years, the men’s title spends decades at a time in the same hands: Borg’s five straight (1976-80, the first three without dropping a set), Sampras’s seven-in-eight (1993-2000, interrupted only by Krajicek’s 1996 lightning strike), and then the twenty-year Federer-Djokovic condominium that yielded Federer’s record eight, the last of them in 2017 at age 35 without losing a set, and Djokovic’s seven, including the 2019 final in which he saved two championship points on Federer’s own serve, the most consequential two points in the tournament’s history. The dynasty habit is what makes the current moment remarkable: since 2023 the title has passed from Alcaraz (who ended Djokovic’s 34-match Centre Court streak at age 20) to Alcaraz again to Sinner, and Sunday either produces the first repeat champion of the new era, or, in Zverev, a fourth different winner in four years, the most democratic stretch the men’s event has had since the 1990s. Djokovic, meanwhile, remains one title from Federer’s eight at 39, and this fortnight’s semifinal exit means the pursuit, like his 25th major, rolls forward rather than ending.

The Quirks That Keep the List Human

For all its dynasties, the list’s soul is in the outliers. Goran Ivanišević’s 2001 title remains sport’s best fairy tale: ranked 125th, admitted on a wild card after three final defeats across the 90s, winning a rain-delayed “People’s Monday” final in front of a ground-pass crowd that behaved like a soccer terrace, still the only wild card ever to win a major. Boris Becker’s 1985 championship, unseeded, 17 years old, serve-and-volleying like a man with no memory, set youngest-champion and unseeded-champion records that have survived four decades of prodigies. Andy Murray’s 2013 win ended a 77-year national wait so heavy it had its own name (“since Fred Perry”), Arthur Ashe’s 1975 tactical dismantling of Connors remains the thinking-fan’s favorite final, and Jan Kodeš’s 1973 title carries the asterisk of the great boycott. Even the list’s two most famous entries are arguments more than results: 2008’s Nadal-Federer, finished at 9-7 in near-darkness and routinely called the greatest match ever played, and 2019’s Djokovic-Federer, the championship-points final, sit sixteen rows apart, quietly hosting the sport’s eternal debate. Sunday adds row 58: a repeat for the era’s dominant force, or the newest unlikely chapter from a man who has beaten him zero times in nine tries.

Final Word

The Wimbledon men’s champions: 57 Open Era winners from Rod Laver in 1968 to Sinner in 2025, ruled by Federer’s eight, Sampras’s and Djokovic’s sevens, and Borg’s five straight, seasoned by Becker at 17, Ivanišević off a wild card, Murray after 77 years, and the two greatest matches ever played (2008 and 2019) sitting inside the table. Sunday’s final between Sinner and Zverev adds row 58 either way: the first repeat of the post-Djokovic era, or a fourth champion in four years. The table updates the moment the champion is crowned.

The women’s roll call is in Wimbledon women’s champions by year, Sunday’s matchup is broken down in Sinner vs. Zverev: the head-to-head, and the cross-era records live in most Wimbledon titles ever.