WIMBLEDON 2025

alcaraz going for 3 straight o_o

Just been catching up with the draw, Draper has his work cut out.

Stating the obvious, but always happy to see that the Women's is looking really open once again.

So hard to try to decide who to watch first tomorrow, maybe Ons.

Poor Ons, relegated to Court 14, and seems to be really struggling, a medic is taking her blood pressure :(

it is too hot for tennis

She retired after the first set

Oh dear..

But this is how the climate crisis eventually will destroy everything.

Today and tomorrow looking mad, then the weather breaks, and by Wed we'll be back to periodic bouts of rain.

Sorry for the overreaction. Its just this chipping away at things :-(

It's okay, I get you and it's def a talking point in the coverage of Norrie's match, shades of 2015, although it looked like poor Ons has something else going on, the game only lasted 40 mins.

Alcatraz and (especially) Fognini really look like they're suffering.

Fognini Alcaraz provably going to a 5th!!

He's in real trouble now, eek

Some match this for day one

Someone fainted on CC?

Hope Southgate is okay

Wonder how much (if any) we're gonna see of Zverev today

Pretty wild first day; Mpetshi Perricard probably should have finished off Fritz, despite never having a break point, leading 5-1 in the 4th-set t/b, and Zverev barely avoided going down two sets vs Rinderknech. So they all come back tomorrow. Amongst all the Brit success, did not expect Kartal and Boulter to take out seeds, or 461-ranked Fery to sink Popyrin. Golden anniversary of Ashe, the Arthurs are coming good again.

Watson looking good over at 12, it's so much better hearing two former women's players commentating instead of Cotter et al

Curse of the recent grass court winners strikes again: Griekspoor (Mallorca champ) thumped yesterday, Pegula (Bad Homburg champ) out today. A decent run to Halle final didn’t do Medvedev much good either and Fritz (Eastbourne champ) should’ve gone last night.

(Don’t expect Maya Joint, Eastbourne champ, to last a round either but she’s got a higher ranked opponent)

Spoke too soon about Watson, good match tho

Did look for a while as if we were going to lose the defending women’s champ on day 2 for the second year in a row. Still may happen but Babs K has figured out Eala now it seems.

Tatjana Maria out, Maya Joint out. Trophies won but nothing here.

Iplayer menu page with the different running court games prefixes all the UK players with "GB's", ick

Bublik gone now, for goodness sake

zverev now out.. would fritz have been ousted, that 3rd quarter would be wildly wide open for the taking

Djok radiating dgaf

coco'd

Fucsovics

30-something seeds out! wild.

Really want Osaka to do well today

Going all the way

I blame Kyrgios

Monfils too, bummer

the match everyone saw coming… solana sierra v laura siegemund 4th round

court looks weirdly empty with no line judges behind the players

krejcikova really physically struggling

Rally of this year's tournament just happened there, I reckon

Djokovic v Kecmanovic? Just come in and they've just replayed it on BBC, it was outstanding.

Yea! Was really something, crowd went bananas before it had even played out

Awesome from Djoko. 4-1 down in the 4th and the play since then has made De Minaur look so ordinary.

ffs andreeva was born in 2007

Dimitrov has taken the first set against Sinner

Sinner is playing well but Sinner not quite there...we are in for a shock I think

other than 1 break chance in the first sinner isnt getting a sniff on the dimi service games

i think i jinxed grigor but also not surprising he got a lil tight serving to go up 2-0

still takes it 7-5!
so many sinner errors, idk that i see him getting back in this

Only just tuned in, is Sinner in some sort of physical trouble?

He has some sort of issue with his elbow..

Shouted involuntarily at how good it was. That forehand was amazing and then topped by the return.

For the set.

Sinner did just go off the boil on his serve. So that has to improve in the next 15 mins. xps

man

Great return of serve from Sinner to put that in play and break

Sinner has something of the look of David "Moyesey" Moyes about him.

Wins his next game from 0-30...Sinner still has his break but much to come.

Alcaraz looking p good to break back soon after that lapse in concentration at the beginning of the set

lol at “please don’t pop champagne corks on the grass before a player is about to serve”

That was incredible.

Sinner to serve for the 2nd..

The first time Sinner has shown some of his own magic!

How did he win that point??

Two awesome fh winners from Sinner to win that! Fkn hell

Sinner: volley between legs misses smash, deuce

Recovered so well: 3-3.

Sinner is serving better. Think all his aces have come this set

Sinner was all over those 2nd serves.

He will serve for the set

The serving has been the difference: 2-1 Sinner

Sinner completely dialled in right now

Breaks with beautiful backhands

Not looking good for Alcaraz.

So now...will last month's events play into this..

And Sinner's record against Alcaraz too. Its not a rivalry until Sinner beats him at a big final

Imperious stuff right now

Still one break. As long as that is the case this match is far from over.

Would say that was encouraging from Alcaraz. Sinner needed net cord.

Alcaraz does need to make him serve it out tho'

30-30 and I gotta say that looked long. Sinner looked at the umpire but there you go.

Alcaraz goes onto win the game...far from over.

15-30

2 bps. Its happening...again

Little wobble here

Sinner was immense there. Seriously.

that second serve was incredible

Yep and that really aggressive backhand also

Alcaraz is making Sinner serve for Wimbledon

How can there not be another twist? The crowd are hungry.

How are they all cheering for Alcaraz? What is wrong with these people?

Sinner backhand is such a weapon

3 CPs

2 CPs

Awesome

Lovely stuff

p dominant last two sets

1 hold at the french from holding all 4 rn

Deserved it.

still cant quite believe dimitrov was up 2 sets on him

he’s a spectacularly great player

How are they all cheering for Alcaraz? What is wrong with these people?

― LocalGarda, Sunday, 13 July 2025 bookmarkflaglink

They are such Tories seriously. Always want their money's worth

Year Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open

2023 Serbia Novak Djokovic (22/24) Serbia Novak Djokovic (23/24) Spain Carlos Alcaraz (2/5) Serbia Novak Djokovic (24/24)
2024 Italy Jannik Sinner (1/4) Spain Carlos Alcaraz (3/5) Spain Carlos Alcaraz (4/5) Italy Jannik Sinner (2/4)
2025 Italy Jannik Sinner (3/4) Spain Carlos Alcaraz (5/5) Italy Jannik Sinner (4/4)

Things change fast. Sinner only won his first major a year and a half ago. Now he and Alcaraz are both one away from career slams.

Well this change is about three years overdue. As soon as Fed retired I didn't really want to hear from Nadal and Djoko.

While I like both Sinner and Alcaraz there's a danger of these two totally dominating really long term. Want to see Musetti, Cobolli, Shelton, Draper and a couple of others marching on.

it doesn't really feel like any of them have the sauce at the moment, unfortunately

Whereas women's tennis has been really healthy for many years, with a variety of personalities and winners. Only Swiatek established any sort of dominance over a surface. Lacks a rivalry but I prefer that xp yeah. Djoko beating Alcaraz at the Australian was so depressing.

xp I'm struggling to see which of that next-gen crop has the game or chutzpah to insert themselves into the Sinner / Alcaraz dominance on any kind of consistent basis, but I agree that I'd rather see at least some kind of s-tier parity beyond just two guys who've already booked their HoF spots. And I think the window has closed fully on the cohort of Tsitsipas, Zverev, Tiafoe, Rublev, Ruud. And oh well, to that.

Hoping Anisimova recovers from that final in a way Zvereva never did (at least not in singles). If so, I think it's far more likely that she makes another run at a major than Kenin, Raducanu, Vondrousova, or (sadly) Andreescu. Or the WTA's chaotic evil (and I love her for it), Ostapenko. Still, I do agree that it seems like the WTA is in the healthier overall spot in terms of its depth.

"Kenin, Raducanu, Vondrousova, or (sadly) Andreescu...Ostapenko."

The thing with all those players -- and there is a bigger list -- is that they all bagged one slam.

In the men's the list is tiny. So much waste.