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Mirra Andreeva’s Wimbledon hopes dashed by resurgent Krejcikova

The 2024 women’s singles champion won 4-6, 7-5, 6-4Teenager says loss will ‘take some time’ to get overJust four women in the post-1968 Open era have won singles titles on the slow red clay of Roland Garros and Wimbledon’s lightning-fast grass before their 20th birthdays. And as Mirra Andreeva, the 19-year-old winner of last month’s French Open, walked on to Centre Court here on Wednesday to face Barbora Krejcikova – herself already a winner of both European grand slams – she had fair hopes of joining Maureen Connolly, Evonne Goolagong, Chris Evert and Steffi Graf as the fifth name on the list.Andreeva left with those hopes extinguished after a hard-fought three-set success for Krejcikova – the 2024 champion here – 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, but with her reputation as a scrapper and shot-maker much enhanced, having shown many of the attributes she will need to succeed at Wimbledon in the years to come. Continue reading...

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View balls please: England football fans at Wimbledon find attention wanders from the tennis

Phones and earpieces aplenty as football supporters find World Cup thriller against DR Congo hard to ignore“Pssst!” The security staff at Wimbledon don’t do a lot of talking. The job of guarding Centre Court seems to be only a little less serious than standing sentry on Whitehall. But this guard, standing to attention outside the media centre in his blue peaked cap and freshly pressed jacket, has something to say to his colleague three feet away. “Pssst!” he whispers from out the side of his mouth. “Rashford’s starting.” His colleague shifted his eyes right while keeping his head straight ahead. “Rashford? Not Gordon?”Wimbledon is about the one corner of England that isn’t showing the game. You’re not even in easy reach of a screen. The All England Club’s chief executive Sally Bolton said at the beginning of the week that they wouldn’t be showing football on any of the hundreds of TVs around the grounds, never mind the giant ones on the hill and in the South Village. She didn’t really need to explain it. Asking Wimbledon whether it will show the match has become a tradition of its own in years when there’s a football tournament on. Continue reading...

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