Wimbledon Day 2 put Stan Wawrinka and Matteo Berrettini at the center of a first-round prediction slate built around 32 men's singles matches. The matchup was one of the names that drew attention on a day when half of the opening round was due to be played.
That is why Wawrinka keeps coming up now. The Swiss veteran has lived enough big Wimbledon moments for any pairing with Berrettini to feel like more than a line on a schedule, and the prediction piece leaned into that weight by placing him among the featured matchups instead of burying him in the middle of the board. Elsewhere, Amanda Bergman, Cizu Harbor and Tope Oke also split on the likes of Vit Kopriva against Jan Choinski, while they were more aligned on Daniel Altmaier over Alex Molcan and Mackenzie McDonald over Patrick Kypson.
The split over Kopriva and Choinski was the sharpest example of how the picks worked. Bergman backed Kopriva in five sets, while Harbor and Oke both went with Choinski in five, a rare clean disagreement over the same match length. On Altmaier against Molcan, Bergman saw a three-set result and the other two predicted four, which gave the day’s card a little structure without pretending the matches were easy to call. The same pattern carried through other first-round calls involving Alexander Zverev, Ben Shelton, Alexander Bublik, Frances Tiafoe and Jakub Mensik, all of them part of the broader Day 2 forecast.
There is also a harder edge to the Wawrinka story. A separate match note has Berrettini ending Wawrinka's Wimbledon career with a four-hour win, which makes the prediction angle more than casual name recognition. It turns the first-round meeting into a test of whether Wawrinka could still force one more real contest at Wimbledon rather than simply be listed as part of the draw.
For readers following Wimbledon Day 2, that is the point: the first-round pairing was not just one more prediction, but the kind that carries its own recent history and its own next question. The only thing left to settle was the match itself.
