Marin Cilic, a former Grand Slam champion absent from Wimbledon for 3 years, returns with a bang to knock out Jack Draper

A quick glance through the men’s singles draw for the second round at Wimbledon 2025 will throw up three obvious names of active players who have been Grand Slam champions.

- GNS News Agency, July 12

Novak Djokovic, of course, is the most successful of them all. And then there is the future of the sport — Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, fresh from their French Open epic. But hidden amongst it all is a 36-year-old veteran, who has not been making headlines like these three: Marin Cilic. The 2014 US Open champion has been as high as No. 3 in the world but started 2024 at world No 1044 (after being unranked for a couple of weeks). He is a former Wimbledon finalist but has not played on the famous grass of SW19 since 2021. But on Thursday, he rolled back the years to end Britain's big hope, Jack Draper's tournament early.How well did Cilic play during his 6-4 6-3 1-6 6-4 win? Over to Draper. “He’s been Top 10 for many, many years. He's always been someone who's just been the ultimate pro and can play incredible. | don’t play many people on the Tour that | feel like they completely bully me and take the racquet out of my hand. | know it’s a grass court. I'm not sure what his stats were but I’m sure he had an amazing match from the winners to unforced errors count.” Draper was not wrong — Cilic hit 53 incredible winners, while his British rival could muster only