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Fox News
2 hours ago
- Sport
- Fox News
An American Has a Surprising Finish During the Wimbledon Final
An unlikely run to the Wimbledon final came to a fast end for a rising American star. #Wimbledon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit FOX News Radio
Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz set for epic rematch in 2025 Wimbledon men's final
The 2025 Wimbledon men's singles final is set to be an all-timer. No. 2 seed Carlos Alcaraz will attempt to win his third straight Wimbledon title, competing against World No. 1 Jannik Sinner in an epic rematch on Sunday. The match comes just over a month after Alcaraz bested Sinner in the 2025 French Open. The young Spaniard outlasted Sinner in a marathon match, completing a major comeback in an instant classic. Advertisement Now, Alcaraz and Sinner will face off again — with Alcaraz hoping to defend his title, and Sinner hoping to get revenge. Alcaraz and Sinner's last meeting Alcaraz and Sinner's French Open final was one for the ages, as the two young champions battled in a grueling match that hit the five-and-a-half hour mark — one of the longest men's finals matches in the Open Era. The match had everything: five full sets, three tiebreaks and a stunning comeback from Alcaraz. At one point, Sinner was one point away from winning the championship; instead, he dropped three championship points and allowed Alcaraz to force a deciding set. Advertisement As Alcaraz, who is known for his ability to win marathon matches, took control of the fifth set, Sinner launched a comeback of his own to send the match to one more tiebreaker. But in the end, it was Alcaraz who took home the trophy, after winning the tiebreak in dominant fashion. "I'm pretty sure you're going to be a champion, not once, but many many times," Alcaraz said of Sinner in his speech after the match. "It's a privilege to share the court with you in every tournament, making history with you." Now, the two will aim to make history once again on the grass. How Alcaraz and Sinner got here Like in many of his tournaments, Alcaraz largely cruised through his games to reach the Wimbledon final for the third straight year. After withstanding a nerve-wracking five-set match against Fabio Fognini in the first round, Alcaraz picked up several easy wins to eventually reach the semifinal. There, he defeated top American Taylor Fritz in four sets, finishing the job with a thrilling tiebreak. Advertisement As for Sinner, the Italian has dealt with a string of injuries this tournament — both his opponents and his own. In the Round of 16, Sinner looked poised to be upset by Grigor Dimitrov, who beat Sinner in the first two sets before a torn pectoral forced him to retire. Then, in the semifinals, Sinner easily defeated Novak Djokovic in straight sets. Though it was a dominant win, Djokovic was also affected by an injury picked up in the quarterfinals after an awkward fall. Alcaraz and Sinner head-to-head record Though Sinner has held the No. 1 ATP ranking since last June, Alcaraz has the upper hand when it comes to playing the Italian. The two have played each other 12 times, dating back to 2021. Alcaraz has won eight of those matchups, and has bested Sinner in their past five meetings. Sinner has not beaten Alcaraz since 2023. Advertisement Importantly, Alcaraz is also a much stronger player on grass than Sinner, who tends to thrive on the hard court. This is the first time that Sinner has ever made it to the Wimbledon final, while Alcaraz has won the past two. Given that Sinner is also dealing with a potential injury, it's going to be an uphill battle for the Italian to come out on top on Sunday. Wimbledon men's singles prize money, purse In addition to the trophy, there's quite a bit of money on the line the competition. This year, the winner of the men's final will take home £3 million or around $4.05 million USD. The runner-up will earn £1.52 million, or $2.05 million USD. Advertisement In total, Wimbledon will hand out £53.5 million ($72.2 million USD) in prize money to the winners of the singles and doubles competitions. How to watch Jannik Sinner vs. Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon The men's final will take place on Sunday, Jul 13 at 11 a.m. ET. Match coverage will be available on ESPN, as well as ESPN+. An encore presentation of the match will take place on ABC at 3 p.m. ET.
Sky News
3 hours ago
- Sport
- Sky News
Amanda Anisimova reveals 'emotional' words of comfort from Kate after crushing Wimbledon final defeat
Tennis star Amanda Anisimova has revealed the words of comfort she received from the Princess of Wales after she broke down in tears following her crushing defeat in the Wimbledon women's singles final. Anisimova wept after the match and briefly left the court before returning for a TV interview and the trophy presentations. Kate, who is patron of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, handed the Wimbledon trophy to Polish player Iga Swiatek, who beat Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in a match that lasted just 57 minutes. 1:39 The princess then consoled Anisimova as she collected her runner-up prize. Speaking after the match, the American player said it was an "honour" to meet the princess. Anisimova said: "I wasn't sure if she was going to come out today, if she was going to be there, so it's just really nice to see her. "She definitely had a few things to say that were making me emotional again. "She was really kind and she told me to keep my head high." Kate also spoke to ball boys and girls as she came on to Centre Court for the presentation. Prior to the final, the princess waved to crowds as she arrived at the championships in SW19. Kate shook hands with children, including 12-year-old Sophie Kneen, who performed the coin toss at the ladies' final. She also met Bob Flint, Wimbledon's longest serving honorary steward, and Ziying Wang, the champion of the ladies singles wheelchair final. It is unknown if the princess will be back at Wimbledon on Sunday when Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner go head-to-head for the men's singles final. Her arrival came shortly after British duo Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool made Wimbledon history by winning the men's doubles title for the first time in 89 years. The pair became the first all-British pair to win the title since Pat Hughes and Raymond Tuckey in 1936. Last year, Kate presented the Wimbledon men's final trophy to Alcaraz, in what was her second public engagement since she announced her cancer diagnosis. She watched the match between the current world number two and Novak Djokovic from the royal box with her daughter, Princess Charlotte. However, she missed the chance to present Barbora Krejcikova with the trophy after she defeated Jasmine Paolini at last year's women's singles final. Already this year, the Princess of Wales's parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, have been seen in the royal box, with the Duchess of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Gloucester also in attendance. Earlier this week, Queen Camilla sat in Centre Court to watch Novak Djokovic in the tournament's quarter-finals. Famous faces in the royal box at this year's Wimbledon have included Leonardo DiCaprio, Dame Anna Wintour, Sir Mo Farah and Ellie Goulding.
The Guardian
5 hours ago
- Sport
- The Guardian
Anisimova experiences a hot waking nightmare after being trapped in the Swiatek bakery
This is what a scream with no vowels sounds like. This is the weight of the soul leaving the body. The arms are no longer connected to the legs, the legs have been severed from the lungs, the lungs have lost contact with the heart and the heart is getting ghosted by the brain. Amanda Anisimova sits on her chair, baking in the heat, stewing in sadness. She dabs her face with a towel and hopes that people won't notice that she's wiping away tears. A faint voice from the outer edge of the universe calls time. She still has to go out there. She takes a deep breath. Lifts herself from her seat and takes the 18 long steps to her mark just behind the baseline. Ever found it a struggle getting up to go to work? Try summoning the strength to face Iga Swiatek when you're losing 6-0, 5-0 in a Wimbledon final. This was supposed to be the feelgood final. Two players who had already run through nettles and weeds to get to this point, who had already surpassed expectations, who in a way had already triumphed. Choose your own adventure: a heartwarming comeback tale for the ages, or the ultimate vindication of this generation's greatest talent. Everyone's a winner. How do you spin this irresistible yarn into something this bleak? 'We'll give you a moment,' Annabel Croft says a few minutes later as the tears flow again and the inevitable applause follows. The groans and sighs of earlier have melted into sympathy and kindness. Centre Court tickets for women's singles final day range from £240 to £315, and at that price value for money becomes a factor. But what this final lacked in actual tennis content it made up for as a historical artefact. The most one-sided grand slam final since the end of the cold war and an extra hour in the pub? Not a bad deal at all. And of course there were numbers that could help you make sense of it all: the fact that Swiatek won the first set 6-0 despite hitting just two winners, the fact that 35% of all the points in this match ended in an unforced error by Anisimova, the fact that only 78% of Anisimova's second serves went in. But really this game was most faithfully experienced as a kind of hot waking nightmare, a window into elite sport at its most brutal and exacting, a meltdown that nobody truly saw coming. Did it matter that Anisimova looked nervous right from the start of her warm-up, when she kept flying the ball long and couldn't even seem to throw Swiatek a proper lob? Or that, as she would later reveal, she felt so leaden in her morning practice that she had to take a break after every single rally? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But either way these little brainworms take on a life of their own very quickly, and there are few players like Swiatek better equipped at finding your pressure point and squeezing it, sadistically and unapologetically. Within two points Anisimova was getting pity cheers. By the end of the fourth game her ball toss was going awry and she was picking listlessly at the strings on her racket. And for all the critics of the best-of-three format there is a real clarifying brutality to it too, the terrifying knowledge that you can spend a lifetime working for this opportunity and about 25 minutes screwing it up. There is no real tactical expertise to bring to bear here. No technical analysis can ever satisfactorily explain how a player who was flaying apart the world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka two days ago now finds herself trapped in the Iga bakery, getting pinned down and force-fed. These are creatures of habit and routine, professional athletes who strive so hard to block out the external noise than when it finally comes crashing through the windows, it comes as a total shock to the system. The key to consistent success at tour level is treating every game the same. The key to mastering the big moments is tacitly accepting that no, they're not. Sign up to The Recap The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend's action after newsletter promotion As Swiatek climbs the steps to celebrate with her team, the score is still showing on the scoreboard, the clock frozen at 57 minutes. And of course at a time like this all kinds of thoughts must intrude. What just happened? What happens now? How do you begin the day full of dreams and promise and end it as the woman who lost a Slam final 6-0, 6-0? But of course Anisimova has endured worse things than getting double-bagelled in a Wimbledon final. She's suffered the sudden loss of her father as a teenager, despair and depression, a crisis of purpose and meaning that forced her to leave the sport for eight months. And if she came back from that, she can come back from this. No walk in tennis will ever be harder than the walk she made to the baseline at 6-0, 5-0 down in a Wimbledon final. No speech she ever makes will be harder than the one she made to the Centre Court crowd here. The heart breaks. But it does not break for ever.
New York Times
5 hours ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Amanda Anisimova's Wimbledon final, and the agony and ecstasy of tennis
THE ALL ENGLAND CLUB, LONDON — The Wimbledon final is where every aspiring tennis player dreams to be one day. For an hour Saturday, that dream became a nightmare for Amanda Anisimova. Her 6-0, 6-0 rout at the hands of a ruthless Iga Świątek was a reminder that no sport is more psychologically brutal than tennis. Advertisement Anisimova's first major final, everything her career had been building towards, was over in 57 devastating minutes. In team sports, there is a place for you to hide. Getting hammered in a final can happen to any side, but you have teammates to share the pain with. There are tactics that can limit the number of goals or points conceded. And there is a clock to be watched that ticks down toward relief. Tennis has no clock, no bell, no ninth inning. Players just have to keep going. And in Anisimova's case, she had to keep on going today against the most relentlessly dominant player in women's tennis. Świątek, who races away with a lead like no one else, was still fist-pumping in the 12th and final game, when the destination of the title had long been decided. Against other players, including those on Świątek's level, Anisimova might have hoped for a loose game thrown her way. But the Pole, who is now 6-0 in Grand Slam finals, does not do loose games when the biggest titles are on the line. She showed no mercy as Anisimova suffered the ultimate tennis indignity of a double bagel, the thing that every player, whether an amateur, a junior pro taking their first tentative steps in the sport, or a WTA star like the 23-year-old American, dreads. There was also a crushing inevitability to it. After just a few games, the name of Natasha Zvereva started bubbling into view. Zvereva, a talented Belarusian who was once ranked No. 5 in the world and won 20 Grand Slam titles in women's and mixed doubles, was until Saturday the only player to suffer a double-bagel in a Grand Slam final during the Open Era. Her name re-enters the tennis lexicon at times like these, like a dreaded ghost from that 1988 French Open final, when Steffi Graf did to her what Świątek did to Anisimova today. Anisimova's career will outlast and exceed this moment. But in its immediate aftermath, and as it unfolded, she became one of the most sympathetic and relatable characters in the world. Everyone has feared freezing at the biggest moments in their lives. Some have done so for real. But for the vast majority, it does not happen in front of a global TV audience, and 15,000 spectators on the most famous tennis court on the planet. After the torture was over, Anisimova covered her head with a towel before asking to leave the court. When she came back, to a huge reception from the sympathetic crowd, she was still tearful. Anisimova was so disorientated that she wandered over to the wrong spot after receiving the runners-up's plate and had to be shuffled back into position. Her voice inevitably wavered and the tears came again when she began to speak. Advertisement Making the loser give an address after a Grand Slam final defeat is another aspect of tennis's unrivalled sadism. During a touching speech, Anisimova revealed that her mother had flown to the UK for the final and said, 'My mom is the most selfless person I know, and she's done everything to get me to this point in my life.' For Anisimova to even have been in the position to suffer Saturday's humiliation was a remarkable achievement. A teen sensation who reached the French Open semifinals in 2019, she spent several years in the tennis wilderness following the sudden death of her father and coach when she was 17. When she returned to the sport at the start of 2024, after taking a break for burnout, she was barely inside the world's top 200. At last year's Wimbledon, she lost in the final round of qualifying. This time, she beat Aryna Sabalenka, the world No.1 and tournament favorite, for the right to face Świątek in the final. But none of that insulates a player from the torment of being exposed in the way Anisimova was on Saturday. 'I feel heartbroken for Anisimova,' two-time U.S. Open champion Tracy Austin said during commentary for the BBC. 'Walking onto Centre Court today, she had to be so proud — it was the moment of her life. And then 50-something minutes later… When you're losing like that, you just want to climb into a hole. Fifteen-thousand people are watching. But I hope and pray that Anisimova is really proud of what she's done. This is just the beginning for her.' Anisimova was similarly positive in her post-match news conference, and what separates elite athletes like her from the rest of the world is the ability to recover mentally from these situations. She spoke about being 'frozen there with my nerves' and admitted that she was 'a little bit in shock after' but also stressed the positives. Anisimova also revealed she had been struggling with fatigue in the lead-up to the final, skipping practice Friday and still having to take a break after every rally at practice this morning. She felt like this loss was about physical issues she needed to resolve, rather than psychological ones. Advertisement Her message to herself? '(That) This is probably going to make (me) stronger in the end, and to not really dig myself down or put myself down after today. Just try and focus on how I can come out stronger after this.' Being around her loved ones will help, she said. Again, anyone could relate.
