After being beaten by American Jordan Lee in Sunday’s Wimbledon boys’ final, Lleyton Hewitt’s son Cruz said his next goal is to make the men’s main draw of the Australian Open. Nearly a quarter of a century after his father won the Wimbledon title in 2002, Cruz lost 4-6 6-4 7-5 to Lee at the […]
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Mladenovic and Guo team up to win Wimbledon doubles title
Kristina Mladenovic won a seventh career Grand Slam women’s doubles title by teaming up with Guo Hanyu to defeat Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani 6-3, 7-5 in the Wimbledon final Sunday. Mladenovic has won the French Open doubles tournament four times and the Australian Open twice with different partners but lost her only previous Wimbledon […]
Jannik Sinner wins second men’s Wimbledon singles title
Jannik Sinner is starting to make a habit of responding to adversity in Paris with Wimbledon titles. The top-ranked Sinner beat Alexander Zverev 6-7 (7), 7-6 (2), 6-3, 6-4 Sunday for his second consecutive title at the All England Club after his German opponent appeared bothered by a knee issue following a slip to the […]
Auger-Aliassime parts ways with coach Fontang after Wimbledon exit
Felix Auger-Aliassime has parted ways with longtime coach Frederic Fontang following the Canadian’s five-set defeat to Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon quarter-finals. Under Fontang’s guidance, Auger-Aliassime won nine ATP singles titles and climbed to a career-high ranking of world number four. The split brings an end to a decade-long partnership that began when Fontang started […]
Linda Noskova recovers from 2nd-set meltdown to win Wimbledon and claim her 1st Grand Slam title
Linda Noskova is the latest in a long line of Czech women to win Wimbledon. The 21-year-old Noskova recovered from a second-set meltdown in which she wasted five match points to overcome Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 in an all-Czech final on Saturday for her first Grand Slam trophy. Noskova became the third Czech woman […]
Karolina Muchova ends Coco Gauff’s run at Wimbledon to reach the final after dramatic tiebreaker
Karolina Muchova ended Coco Gauff´s run at Wimbledon with a 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (10) victory Thursday that ended with a drama-filled tiebreaker, to become the fourth Czech woman in the last six years to reach the final of the grass-court Grand Slam. It will be the ninth-ranked Muchova´s second Grand Slam final after losing to […]
Zverev breaks Taylor Fritz curse at Wimbledon
As great as Alexander Zverev has been over the past several years, he just couldn’t find a way to defeat Taylor Fritz. The American is good, of course, but nowhere near as accomplished as the German. Yet, every match since Wimbledon 2024, a stretch of seven, had gone toward Fritz. Zverev is playing with renewed […]
Sinner and Gauff make it to Wimbledon semi-finals
Jannik Sinner moved a step closer to defending his Wimbledon title with a composed victory over Jan-Lennard Struff to reach the semi-finals. The world number one has yet to hit his best form at the Championships but acted decisively in key moments to secure a 7-5 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 win over Germany’s 74th-ranked Struff. The […]
Djokovic makes Wimbledon history to reach quarter-finals
Novak Djokovic enjoyed another slice of Wimbledon history as the Serbian star broke Roger Federer’s singles match-win record on Sunday. Djokovic’s 7-6 (8/6), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Russian qualifier Roman Safiullin in the fourth round took the seven-time Wimbledon champion past Federer to 106 men’s match-wins at the grass-court Grand Slam. Only Martina Navratilova […]
Djokovic ties Federer’s Wimbledon record after beating Rinderknech
Novak Djokovic may not have been as sharp as he would have liked on Friday afternoon at Wimbledon, but the seven-time champion nonetheless pulled through to record a resilient win and equal Roger Federer’s record of men’s singles matches won at the grass-court major. After being forced into a Centre Court tussle with Arthur Rinderknech, […]