Wimbledon 2025 will break a 41 -year mark for British tennis

ByDavid Mitchell
Wimbledon 2025 will break a 41 -year mark for British tennis

Wimbledonthe festival festival on grass is the possibility of showing itself to the world of British tennis. And, in this edition, there is a reason more than special for the islanders to be proud.

They will be no less than 23 tennis players who step on the first round of the third Grand Slam of the year, with 11 men and 12 women in the respective paintings. It is the highest figure since the 1984 edition.

Among the gentlemen, Jack Draper will debut vs. Sebastián Báez, George Loffhagen vs. Pedro Martínez, Cameron Norrie vs. Roberto Bautista, Johannus Monday vs. Tommy Paul, Jack Pinnington Jones vs. Tomás Etcheverry, Dan Evans vs. Jay Clarke (100% British duel), Arthur Fery vs. Alexei Popyrin, Billy Harris vs. Hubert Hurkacz, Henry Searle vs. Ethan Quinn, Oliver Crawford vs. Mattia Bellucci, Jacob Fearnley vs. Joao Fonseca and Oliver Ratet (Revelation of the QUALY) vs. Leandro Riedi.

For ladies: Emma Raducanu vs. The local promise Mimi Xu, Katie Boulter against Paula Badosa, Hannah Klugman will debut in the main picture of a Grand Slam vs. Leylah Fernández, Harriet Dart vs. Dalma Galfi, Sonay Kartal vs. Jelena Ostopenko, Mika Stojsavljevic (Junior champion of the United States Open 2024) vs. Ashlyn Krueger and the guests Jodie Burrage vs. Caty McNally, Heather Watson vs. Clara Tauson and Francesca Jones against Yuliia Starodubtseva.

They will all want to emulate Andy Murraythe only one who could conquer this Grand Slam: The Scotsman was crowned champion of the 2013 edition with a 6-4, 7-5 and 6-4 victory over Novak Djokovic and repeated the celebration in 2016 with a triumph 6-4, 7-6 (3) and 7-6 (2) Milos Raonic In the final.

And the ladies will be inspired by Ann Jones, For example. The English in 1969 beat the legends Margaret Court in semis and Billie Jean King In the definition. In 1977 Virginia Wade repeated the achievement, with a triumph in three sets over Betty Stove In the final after having eliminated Chris Evert in semifinals.

In other prominent British results, Tim Henman, He arrived four times in the semifinals between 1998 and 2002. Johanna Konta He was semifinalist in 2017, Roger Taylor He fell in the semifinals in 1970 and 1973, the same instance accessed by Norrie in 2022.

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David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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