Think we’ll see if Draper can do anything on grass - I’m optimistic

incredible final, nearly 6 hours wasn't it

as team Alcaraz, it was very nerve-wrecking

overall I think he played much much better (but Im biased)

Sinner was saved a thousand times by his better serve

like all those tens of times Alcaraz could have broken in the first 2 sets

glad Alcaraz won, I still cannot believe it

Crazy to remember Carlos came back from this position against the world number 1

On 08/06/2025 at 20:08, Herbs said:

Think we’ll see if Draper can do anything on grass - I’m optimistic

We are READY

ATP Rankings Update:

⬆️4. Jack Draper (Great Britain)

⬆️5. Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

⬆️6. Lorenzo Musetti (Italy)

⬇️7. Taylor Fritz (USA)

⬆️8. Tommy Paul (USA)

⬆️9. Holger Rune (Denmark)

⬇️10. Alex de Minaur (Australia)

⬆️12. Ben Shelton (USA)

⬆️13. Frances Tiafoe (USA)

⬇️16. Casper Ruud (Norway)

⬆️17. Jakub Mensik (Czech Republic)

⬇️19. Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria)

⬆️20. Ugo Humbert (France)

WTA Rankings Update:

⬆️5. Qinwen Zheng (China)

⬇️7. Iga Swiatek (Poland)

⬆️9. Paula Badosa (Spain)

⬇️ 10. Emma Navarro (USA)

⬆️13. Elina Svitolina (Ukraine)

⬇️14. Karolina Muchova (Czechia

⬆️15. Amanda Anisimova (USA)

⬆️16. Daria Kasatkina (Australia)

⬇️17. Barbora Krejcikova (Czechia)

⬆️19. Ekaterina Alexandrova

⬆️20. Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)

Total prize money at this year's Wimbledon will increase by 7% to a record £53.5m.

The prize pot, worth £50m in 2024, is double the £26.5m on offer in 2015.

Carlos Alcaraz and Barbora Krejcikova each took home £2.7m for winning the men's and women's singles titles respectively last year.

This year's winners will receive £3m, an increase of 11%.

Players knocked out in the first round will receive £66,000, an increase of 10%.

There will be a 4% increase for the men's and women's doubles winners, who will earn £680,000, and a 3% increase for the mixed doubles winners, to £135,000.

The All England Lawn Tennis Club also confirmed the full introduction of live electronic line calling.

Never knew there was such a disparity between same sex and mixed sex prize money in the doubles!

So the mixed doubles winners only pocket twice as much as a single player who could get double or triple bageled in round 1.

Double Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova has announced that she will retire from tennis at the end of this summer.

The Czech player won the ladies' singles titles in 2011 and 2014 and also reached the final of the Australian Open in 2019.

In recent years she has fallen down the rankings and last made the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam in 2020.

She missed the whole of 2024 to have her first child and only returned to action in February.

Jacob Fearnley's run at Queen's came to an end when the British number two was beaten by Jiri Lehecka 7-5 6-2 in the quarter-finals.

The 23-year-old was playing in his first last-eight match of an ATP Tour event after producing a brilliant display against French qualifier Corentin Moutet on Thursday.

But Czech world number 30 Lehecka proved too much for him on another hot day in west London.

Some interesting stats from the past couple of days

Carlos Alcaraz is now on the longest winning streak of his career (think it's 16 following today's victory at Queen's) - surprised that it's now, not at a time when he's world #1

Alexander Bublik's victory in Halle yesterday was the first time that Jannik Sinner has lost to someone not named Carlos Alcaraz since last August (although we must remember he had three months earlier this year when he didn't have the opportunity to be losing to anyone!), and the first time he's lost to someone ranked outside the top 20 since August 2023