At Wimbledon,
Center Court, from 2:30 p.m. in France:
Ounce Jabeur (Tun/6) – Elena Rybakina (Goose/3)
Carlos Alcaraz (Esp/1)- Holger Rune (Dan/6)
Court 1, from 1:30 p.m. in France
Madison Keys (E-U, 25) – Aryna Sabalenka (Bel/2)
Daniil Medvedev (Rus/3) – Christopher Eubanks (E-U.)
Carlos Alcaraz – Holger Rune
It’s a duel that risks becoming a classic. And the biggest tournament in the world will be the scene of the first duel between the two men in a Grand Slam tournament. The two 20-year-old players have only faced each other once on the circuit. Carlos Alcaraz threw in the towel against Holger Rune in the second set in the quarter-finals of the Rolex Paris Masters. We expect this time a real fight between two budding champions who learn to tame the grass. At Wimbledon, the world number one, who is playing the London Grand Slam for the third time, was stopped in the round of 16 last year by Jannik Sinner, while the Dane, for his first participation, succumbed from the start, against Marcos Giron. Faller Monday of Matteo Berrettini in four sets, the Spaniard confirmed that he had a green foot, he who won at Queen’s in preparation for Wimbledon. Rune also learns very quickly. The Dane overcame the experienced Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov. All after coming within a point of elimination against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the previous round, the 6th in the world invites himself for the third time in his career to the table of Grand Slam quarter-finalists.
By outclassing Petra Kvitova in the round of 16 on Monday (6-0, 6-3), Ons Jabeur gave himself the right to try to take revenge from last year in the quarter-finals against Elena Rybakina. The Kazakh beat the Tunisian in the final, shattering her dream. “It will be a difficult game. It was a difficult final last year. This will bring back many memories for me. I hope to play like today and win this match. She’s an extraordinary player. You can see she’s going ‘boom boom’ all the time! There’s no mercy with her, so let’s see what happens.”
Carlos Alcaraz and Holger Rune, aged 20, meet for a shock quarter-final, the “youngest” in Wimbledon history.
“He’s not afraid of anything, he’s going. He serves well and he comes up as soon as he can at the net. I don’t know if we can transpose this expression which comes from football, but he plays total tennis, ”said Russian Daniil Medvedev about his opponent Christopher Eubanks.
The Fatal Nap: In 1964, linesman Dorothy Cavis-Brown fell asleep during a game between Abe Segal and Clark Graebner. Shocking! Banished from the world of arbitration, she never turned back the English lawn.
