19 h. ago Wimbledon 2025: Sabalenka beats Raducanu; Alcaraz, Norrie and Kartal win – live

Day five updates as the third round gets under wayKartal reaches last 16 for the first time | Email NiallA few venerable tennis observers have spoken of Amanda Anisimova as a possible champion here given the carnage in the women’s draw, especially in her quarter. The 23-year-old American started her campaign by serving up a double bagel to a distracted Yulia Putintseva, and won in straight sets in the second round too, but she’s been broken in the early exchanges against Galfi and trails 3-1.Make that 3-0 Osaka. Nick Kyrgios, who will play alongside Osaka at the rebooted US Open mixed doubles event next month, is watching on with Osaka’s team, and will be impressed with what he’s seen so far. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Wimbledon 2025: Sabalenka v Raducanu; Alcaraz, Norrie and Kartal win – live

Day five updates as the third round gets under wayKartal reaches last 16 for the first time | Email NiallA few venerable tennis observers have spoken of Amanda Anisimova as a possible champion here given the carnage in the women’s draw, especially in her quarter. The 23-year-old American started her campaign by serving up a double bagel to a distracted Yulia Putintseva, and won in straight sets in the second round too, but she’s been broken in the early exchanges against Galfi and trails 3-1.Make that 3-0 Osaka. Nick Kyrgios, who will play alongside Osaka at the rebooted US Open mixed doubles event next month, is watching on with Osaka’s team, and will be impressed with what he’s seen so far. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Wimbledon 2025: Alcaraz in action, Norrie, Kartal and Fritz win, Keys and Osaka out – live

Day five updates as the third round gets under wayKartal reaches last 16 for the first time | Email NiallA few venerable tennis observers have spoken of Amanda Anisimova as a possible champion here given the carnage in the women’s draw, especially in her quarter. The 23-year-old American started her campaign by serving up a double bagel to a distracted Yulia Putintseva, and won in straight sets in the second round too, but she’s been broken in the early exchanges against Galfi and trails 3-1.Make that 3-0 Osaka. Nick Kyrgios, who will play alongside Osaka at the rebooted US Open mixed doubles event next month, is watching on with Osaka’s team, and will be impressed with what he’s seen so far. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Wimbledon 2025: Alcaraz and Norrie in action, Kartal and Fritz win, Keys and Osaka out – live

Day five updates as the third round gets under wayKartal reaches last 16 for the first time | Email KatyA few venerable tennis observers have spoken of Amanda Anisimova as a possible champion here given the carnage in the women’s draw, especially in her quarter. The 23-year-old American started her campaign by serving up a double bagel to a distracted Yulia Putintseva, and won in straight sets in the second round too, but she’s been broken in the early exchanges against Galfi and trails 3-1.Make that 3-0 Osaka. Nick Kyrgios, who will play alongside Osaka at the rebooted US Open mixed doubles event next month, is watching on with Osaka’s team, and will be impressed with what he’s seen so far. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Wimbledon 2025: Kartal beats Parry; Norrie and Fritz in action, Keys and Osaka out – live

Day five updates as the third round gets under wayEmail Katy | Draper knocked out by inspired CilicA few venerable tennis observers have spoken of Amanda Anisimova as a possible champion here given the carnage in the women’s draw, especially in her quarter. The 23-year-old American started her campaign by serving up a double bagel to a distracted Yulia Putintseva, and won in straight sets in the second round too, but she’s been broken in the early exchanges against Galfi and trails 3-1.Make that 3-0 Osaka. Nick Kyrgios, who will play alongside Osaka at the rebooted US Open mixed doubles event next month, is watching on with Osaka’s team, and will be impressed with what he’s seen so far. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Wimbledon 2025: Kartal beats Parry; Norrie, Fritz and Keys in action, Osaka out – live

Day five updates as the third round gets under wayEmail Niall | Draper knocked out by inspired CilicA few venerable tennis observers have spoken of Amanda Anisimova as a possible champion here given the carnage in the women’s draw, especially in her quarter. The 23-year-old American started her campaign by serving up a double bagel to a distracted Yulia Putintseva, and won in straight sets in the second round too, but she’s been broken in the early exchanges against Galfi and trails 3-1.Make that 3-0 Osaka. Nick Kyrgios, who will play alongside Osaka at the rebooted US Open mixed doubles event next month, is watching on with Osaka’s team, and will be impressed with what he’s seen so far. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Wimbledon 2025: Parry v Kartal, Pavlyuchenkova beats Osaka – live

Day five updates as the third round gets under wayEmail Katy | Draper knocked out by inspired CilicA few venerable tennis observers have spoken of Amanda Anisimova as a possible champion here given the carnage in the women’s draw, especially in her quarter. The 23-year-old American started her campaign by serving up a double bagel to a distracted Yulia Putintseva, and won in straight sets in the second round too, but she’s been broken in the early exchanges against Galfi and trails 3-1.Make that 3-0 Osaka. Nick Kyrgios, who will play alongside Osaka at the rebooted US Open mixed doubles event next month, is watching on with Osaka’s team, and will be impressed with what he’s seen so far. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Wimbledon 2025: Parry v Kartal, Pavlyuchenkova beats Osaka, Sabalenka v Raducanu to come – live

Day five updates as the third round gets under wayEmail Katy | Draper knocked out by inspired CilicA few venerable tennis observers have spoken of Amanda Anisimova as a possible champion here given the carnage in the women’s draw, especially in her quarter. The 23-year-old American started her campaign by serving up a double bagel to a distracted Yulia Putintseva, and won in straight sets in the second round too, but she’s been broken in the early exchanges against Galfi and trails 3-1.Make that 3-0 Osaka. Nick Kyrgios, who will play alongside Osaka at the rebooted US Open mixed doubles event next month, is watching on with Osaka’s team, and will be impressed with what he’s seen so far. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Wimbledon star refuses to play on until 'crazy' fan is ejected as she bursts into tears on court

Yulia Putintseva was left in tears during her first round defeat to Amanda Anisimova as the world number 33 had to ask security staff to remove a spectator from the grounds

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4 d. ago Wimbledon star in tears over 'crazy' fan as she tells umpire 'maybe he has a knife'

The alarming accusations came during Yulia Putintseva's first-round match against Amanda Anisimova

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4 d. ago ‘Dangerous’ Wimbledon spectator removed after Yulia Putintseva reports ‘crazy’ behaviour

Putintseva was later emotional during the match and lost 6-0, 6-0 to Amanda Anisimova

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2 w. ago Tatjana Maria crowned queen of Queen’s as women’s tournament celebrates triumphant return

A resoundingly successful opening week for the new women’s tournament was capped off by Maria winning the biggest title of her career

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2 w. ago Tatjana Maria outwits Anisimova to complete Queen’s Club fairytale aged 37

German qualifier becomes oldest WTA 500 championMaria wins first women’s final in 52 years 6-3, 6-4Tatjana Maria completed an extraordinary week of giantkilling in London by becoming the surprise first women’s champion at Queen’s Club in 52 years as she defeated Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 6-4.Maria, a 37-year-old German qualifier, is the oldest WTA 500 champion in history. She had arrived at Queen’s Club on a nine-match losing run before building momentum from the qualifying draw and defeating four top-20 opponents in a row. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Tatjana Maria shocks Amanda Anisimova to win Queen’s Club women’s singles final – as it happened

Tatjana Maria, a qualifier, beat Amanda Anisimova, the number eight seed, in straight sets to win the first women’s tournament at Queen’s since 1973Ready play.Apparently Anisimova was practising this morning and had someone hitting slices at her. That makes sense, but it won’t be the same as what’s in store for her on court this afternoon. Thing is – and as I type, there’s another “slice and dice” – the match may, in fact, be decided by how her excellence on the return matches up with Maria’s excellence on serve. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Amanda Anisimova v Tatjana Maria: Queen’s Club women’s singles final – live

Game-by-game report of final due to start at 1.30pm BSTTop players to get protected ranking for fertility courseGet in touch! Email daniel.harris@theguardian.comAnd of course it’s impossible to conceive of this competition without casting our minds forward to Wimbledon. Anisimova made the last eight in 2022 and must’ve been at her lowest around then; she’s running into form nicely now, feeling like an entirely different person. She’s definitely one to watch, whatever happens today.So who’s going to win? Well Anisimova is the better player with the bigger game; if she produces her best or close to it, she’ll be hard to beat. But Maria is canny and knows that, at her age, this might be her last chance to snaffle so coveted a title. If she can keep Anisimova moving, she’s a really good chance. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago WTA London Final Prediction: Amanda Anisimova vs Tatjana Maria

WTA London Final Prediction: Amanda Anisimova vs Tatjana Maria  MSN

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2 w. ago Qualifier Tatjana Maria shocks Madison Keys to set up Queen’s final against Amanda Anisimova

The 37-year-old mother of two takes on Amanda Anisimova for the trophy on Sunday

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2 w. ago Qualifier Tatjana Maria shocks Madison Keys to reach final at Queen’s

The 37-year-old mother of two will take on Amanda Anisimova for the trophy on Sunday.

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3 w. ago WTA London Semifinal Predictions Including Amanda Anisimova vs Qinwen Zheng

WTA London Semifinal Predictions Including Amanda Anisimova vs Qinwen Zheng  MSN

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3 w. ago How Sonay Kartal’s rise is pushing British women’s tennis to new heights

Sonay Kartal fell to a 6-1, 6-3 defeat at the hands of world No. 15 Amanda Anisimova, but has plenty of positives to take from an historic week in women’s tennis

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