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LONDON: Jannik Sinner came from behind to defeat defending champion Carlos Alcaraz for his maiden Wimbledon title here on Sunday.

Imperious Sinner battled back to win 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in three hours and four minutes. With this victory, the Italian No. 01 became a four-time Grand Slam champion.

Jannik Sinner also etched his name into history books, becoming the first Italian to clinch the Wimbledon men’s singles title, while Carlos Alcaraz suffered his first loss in the grand slam after having a perfect 5-0 record.

The Wimbledon 2025 champion Jannik Sinner shifted gears after taking the lead in the final as Carlos Alcaraz threw everything at the Italian. Ultimately, Sinner sealed the trophy with a faultless service game.

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Following the match, Carlos Alcaraz shared his thoughts in the presentation ceremony.

“It is difficult to lose. Always is. First of all, I have to congratulate Jannik [Sinner] once again,” he said.

“[It is] A well-deserved trophy. You are playing great tennis here in London. [Congratulations] To your team as well, a lot of people are here for you. You have an amazing team around you. [I am] Really happy for you and keep it going,” he added.

Two days earlier, Jannik Sinner outplayed Novak Djokovic in the semi-final with straight sets on Friday.

Jannik Sinner demonstrated his dominance after clinching the opening set as the 38-year-old Serbian star looked clueless.

Novak Djokovic was in a bid to reach his seventh successive Wimbledon final; however, the Italian shattered his hopes after dropping only six points on serve.

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Iga Swiatek routed former Olympic champion Belinda Bencic 6-2, 6-0 on Thursday to reach her first Wimbledon final, where she will face Amanda Anisimova.

The five-time Grand Slam champion, seeded eighth at the All England Club, dominated her Swiss opponent from the start, wrapping up victory in 71 minutes on Centre Court.

“Honestly, I never even dreamed that it’s going to be possible for me to play in the final. So I’m just super-excited and proud of myself, and I don’t know, tennis keeps surprising me,” said Swiatek.

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“I thought I had lived through everything, even though I’m young, I thought I experienced everything on the court, but I didn’t experience playing well on grass, so that’s the first time, and I’m super, super excited and just enjoying it.”

On a baking Centre Court, the 24-year-old caught Bencic cold, racing into a 3-0 lead.

Bencic, ranked 35th in the world, found her footing, holding serve twice but Polish star Swiatek broke to love in the eighth game to take the match by the scruff of the neck.

Bencic, who returned to action in October, six months after giving birth to her daughter, Bella, was immediately under pressure in the second set as Swiatek broke for a 2-0 lead.

The rampant Swiatek did not allow Bencic a single game in a remarkably one-sided second set.

Despite her impressive form, Swiatek has largely gone under the radar at this year’s Wimbledon, dropping just one set so far while the top seven women’s seeds were all eliminated.

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After slipping down the rankings, she is now back in the world’s top four, having reached her first-ever grass-court final at Bad Homburg last month.

Swiatek has won four French Open titles on clay, as well as the 2022 US Open on hard courts, but until this year, she had never been beyond the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.

She will face Anisimova for the first time in her career on Saturday after the American 13th seed beat world number one Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 to reach her first Wimbledon final.

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Holger Rune crashed out of Wimbledon in the first round on Monday as the Danish eighth seed blew a two-set lead against Chile’s Nicolas Jarry.

Rune was beaten 4-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 in three hours and 34 minutes on Court Three at the All England Club.

The 22-year-old is yet to make it past the quarter-finals at any of the four Grand Slams, with his best run at Wimbledon ending in the last eight in 2023.

Jarry, ranked 143rd, will face American world number 62 Learner Tien in the second round.

Earlier, Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka advanced to the second round of Wimbledon on Monday.

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Carlos survived a major scare in his Wimbledon opener against Italian veteran Fabio Fognini, battling to a 7-5, 6-7 (5/7), 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 win over the 38-year-old.

The first-round clash lasted four hours and 37 minutes in sweltering conditions on Centre Court.

It was first time since Roger Federer narrowly beat Alejandro Falla in 2010 that a defending champion had been taken to a fifth set in the Wimbledon first round.

Alcaraz shrugged off an inconsistent display, including 62 unforced errors, as he refused to wilt on the hottest opening day in Wimbledon history.

Following the victory, Carlos Alcaraz shed light on the challenge of playing in this kind of tournament.

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“First of all, I don’t know why it is probably Fabio’s last Wimbledon because the level he has shown shows he can still play for three or four more years,” Carlos Alcaraz said.

“Playing on Centre Court for the first match of any tournament is never easy. I’ve been practising pretty well and playing on grass really well, but Wimbledon is special and different,” he concluded.

Meanwhile, Aryna Sabalenka defeated Canadian qualifier Carson Branstine 6-1, 7-5. The 27-year-old Belarusian is a three-time Grand Slam champion but has never been beyond the semi-finals at the All England Club.

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Top seed Aryna Sabalenka cruised into the Wimbledon second round on Monday, beating Canadian qualifier Carson Branstine 6-1, 7-5.

The 27-year-old Belarusian is a three-time Grand Slam champion but has never been beyond the semi-finals at the All England Club.

She is looking to ease the pain of losing in the finals of the Australian Open and the French Open this year.

Sabalenka broke Branstine twice in a one-sided first set as the Canadian struggled with her serve.

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Branstine was a tougher proposition in the second set, winning the first game to love on her own serve, but missed a chance to break in the next game.

The 24-year-old was playing her first Grand Slam main-draw match but enjoyed significant wins over French Open semi-finalist Lois Boisson and Bianca Andreescu in qualifying.

The match were locked at 5-5 in the second set before Sabalenka broke in the 11th game and served out the victory to set up a meeting with New Zealand’s Lulu Sun or Czech player Marie Bouzkova.

Earlier, two-time Wimbledon finalist Ons Jabeur broke down in tears before retiring from her first-round match against Viktoriya Tomova on Monday.

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Tunisia’s Jabeur was trailing 7-6 (7/5), 2-0 when she brought a premature end to her clash with the Bulgarian world number 111 Viktoriya Tomova at the All England Club.

The 30-year-old, beaten in the 2022 and 2023 Wimbledon finals, looked uncomfortable throughout the match in sweltering temperatures in London.

The world number 59 wiped away tears after losing a long fifth game in the first set and took a lengthy medical timeout, with staff attending to her before taking her off court.

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