{"id":223526,"date":"2025-06-29T08:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T08:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223526\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T08:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T08:28:10","slug":"wimbledon-2025-carlos-alcaraz-chases-third-title-aryna-sabalenka-aims-for-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223526\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2025: Carlos Alcaraz chases third title, Aryna Sabalenka aims for first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roland Garros champion Coco Gauff arrives as one of the main contenders, but she has never progressed beyond the fourth round in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year&#8217;s runner-up Jasmine Paolini, the Italian world number four, will look to go one step better this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, former world number one Iga Swiatek &#8211; who beat Paolini handily in Bad Homburg on Friday &#8211; and 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina will also hope to challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number one Emma Raducanu leads home hopes in the women&#8217;s draw, where she is joined by Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal, who have both spent time in the world&#8217;s top 50 of late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Raducanu has been handed a difficult draw. Former champion Marketa Vondrousova is a possible second-round opponent, while Sabalenka is likely to be waiting should she reach round three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roland Garros champion Coco Gauff arrives as one of the main contenders, but she has never progressed beyond&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-223526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114765712989115815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}