Few anticipated Emma Raducanu to so easily destroy defending champion Marketa Vondrousova, yet Wimbledon 2025 is already exploding with surprises. On a crowded Centre Court, the 2021 US Open champion rediscovered the form that made her a worldwide phenomenon,

In their only previous meeting, though, last year at Indiana Wells, that wasn’t quite the case. Sabalenka won 6-3, 7-5, but Raducanu held her own in the rallies much of the time, and turned many of them into all-court scrambles. She also made a strong goal-line stand at 5-6 in the second set that had Sabalenka teetering on the brink of a meltdown.