Wimbledon—London, England
Alcaraz Opens 2025 Wimbledon Title Protection with 5 Set Victory
Monday’s Outcomes from Wimbledon
Monday’s motion from the All England Garden Tennis and Croquet Membership noticed defending champion Carlos Alcaraz advance to the second spherical, defeating former prime 10 participant Fabio Fognini 7-5, 6-7(5), 7-5, 2-6, 6-1.
Needing 4 hours and 37 minutes to advance, Alcaraz slammed 14 aces, 52 winners, gained 70 p.c of his first serve factors and broke his Italian opponent on seven events.
Advancing to the spherical of 64, the two-time defending champion will subsequent face Oliver Tarvet.
Tarvet defeated Leandro Riedi from Switzerland 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.
Alcaraz defeated seven-time former winner Novak Djokovic within the final two finals.
Different winners on the day included No. 12 seed Frances Tiafoe, No. 17 seed Karen Khachanov, and No. 23 seed Jiri Lehecka.
No. 8 seed Holger Rune, No. 9 seed Daniil Medvedev, and No. 24 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas all crashed out of the occasion within the opening spherical.
Medvedev adopted up a primary spherical loss at Roland Garros, dropping to Benjamin Bonzi 7-6(2), 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-2. Tsitspas was pressured to retire with a again harm, dropping to Valentin Royer 6-3, 6-2 in a single hour and 17 minutes.
Tsitsipas is now coached by former Wimbledon winner Goran Ivanisevic.
Rune squandered a two units to like result in lose in 5 units to Nicolas Jarry 4-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4.
No. 3 seed Alexander Zverev, No. 5 seed Taylor Fritz and No. 9 seed Daniil Medvedev will probably be in motion later right now.
Tuesday’s motion in SW19 will embrace prime seed Jannik Sinner, No. 4 seed Jack Draper, and No. 6 seed Djokovic.
Sabalenka Soars into Spherical Two
On the women facet, prime seed Aryna Sabalenka defeated inform Canadian Carson Branstine 6-1, 7-5.
Branstine defeated prime seed Lois Boisson and former US Open winner Bianca Andresscu within the qualifying rounds.
Sabalenka, who has by no means gained Wimbledon, owns three Grand Slam titles. She additionally reached the finals of the Australian and French Opens earlier this yr.
The Belarussian will face both Lulu Solar or Maria Bouzkova within the spherical of 64.
Different matches which are nonetheless on deck on Monday will see No. 4 seed and final yr’s finalists Jasmine Paolini, No. 6 seed Madison Keys and No. 9 seed Paula Badosa in motion later right now.
Former French Open winner No. 20 seed Jelena Ostapenko was defeated by Sonay Kartal 7-5, 2-6, 6-2.
No. 14 seed Elena Svitolina, No. 22 seed Donna Vekic and No. 30 seed Linda Noskova all attain the second spherical.
Former finalist Ons Jabeur was pressured to withdraw trailing Viktoriya Tomova 7-6(5), 2-0.
On Tuesday, No. 2 seed Coco Gauff, No. 3 seed Jessica Pegula and No. 7 seed Mirra Andreeva will probably be scheduled to play.
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