The highest seed of Aryna Sabalenko surpassed the Canadian qualification of Carson Branstine in her efforts for the first Wimbledon title on Monday, June 30. Sabalenka defeated her Canadian rival in direct sets, 6-1, 7-5, in a match that lasted an hour and 15 minutes.
With temperatures rising above 30 degrees Celsius, Belarusian turned the heat early to win the first five games and looked ready for a fast surface. Branstine, which became a popular crowd in this issue of the tournament, earned a loud applause when she fought in the second set of the match.
While the first set was an easy victory for Sabalenko, the second was the intense fight of wild basic gatherings. Sabalenka, for the first time deployed one in Wimbledon, usually overwhelmed her opponents with mere strength of her game, but Branstine brought her own firepower.
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Canadian immers several big aces when she stayed in front of us in the second set, but Sabalenka sensed her chance at 5-5 and broke by forceing her opponent not to form Forehand.
Sabalenka packed the victory with a fixed hold.
Huge upset in men’s singles
Men’s singles saw two massive upset in the 1st day of the main rounds. Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Titsipas were removed from the tournament in the first round of the competition.
Daniil Medvedev found the conditions of baking and a French opponent who did not win the match on Monday because the ninth seed suffered 7-6 (2), 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2 Benjamin Bonzi loss.
The Russian, which has achieved the semifinals in the All England Club in the last two years, was hot and bother when Bonzi brought what he described as his “A-Hru” to send the 2021 US Open Champion to Court Two, who felt like an oven in a three-hour match.
Tsissipas is downloading
Greece’s Stefanos Titsipas said he had no answers to his ongoing fitness problems after he was forced to leave his first Wimbledon match on Monday in the first round. Former World No. 3 Tsissipas, this year inoculated 24.
When he talked to reporters twice Grand Slam Runner-up.
“I am fighting many wars today. It is really painful to see yourself in such a situation,” he said.
“I feel as if I stayed without response. I don’t know. I tried everything. I did an incredible job with my fit. I did an incredible job with physiotherapy, so I maximized everything I could do.
“I’m just absolutely left right now.”
Tsissipas said he has been struggling with the lower back of the ATP Tour in 2023, and although he won the title of Dubai this year, his fitness problems coincided with the slip in the ranking.
“It is probably the most difficult situation I have ever faced with, because it seems to be an ongoing problem that does not disappear or disappears,” he said.
“At some point I have a limit, so I will definitely have to have my final answer to whether I want to do things or not in the next few months.
“Tennis is a rotary sport, and if you can’t turn, then there’s no reason to play.”
Tsissipas recently began to cooperate with former coach Novak Djokovic Goran Ivanisevic.
“It’s great. We have a great time. I’m very disappointed that I wasn’t able to show my potential the way I deserve to play on the pitch,” Titsipas said.
Tsissipas has reached only one quarterfinal in its last nine Grand Slam tournaments and his hope for playing at the US Open now seems to be in danger.
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Published:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published on:
June 30, 2025
