{"id":224028,"date":"2025-06-29T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T12:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224028\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T12:58:10","slug":"wimbledon-2025-emma-raducanu-carlos-alcaraz-katie-boulter-and-aryna-sabalenka-in-action-on-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224028\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2025: Emma Raducanu, Carlos Alcaraz, Katie Boulter and Aryna Sabalenka in action on day one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Boulter, Fearnley, Raducanu and Xu start their tournaments on the main show courts, there will be 10 other Britons in action around the grounds, with play beginning at 11:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Cameron Norrie<\/b>, a semi-finalist three years ago, plays second on court 18 as he faces a tricky opponent in Spain&#8217;s Roberto Bautista Agut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sonay Kartal <\/b>features in the court three opener against Latvian 20th seed and former French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final two matches on court 17 feature British interest as <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Harriet Dart<\/b> takes on Hungarian Dalma Galfi before world number 796 <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Mika Stojsavljevic<\/b> faces American 31st seed Ashlyn Krueger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stojsavljevic, 16, is a wildcard entry and won last year&#8217;s US Open girls&#8217; title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her fellow British 16-year-old <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hannah Klugman<\/b> is third on court 12 against Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez &#8211; the player Raducanu beat in the 2021 US Open final. Klugman, who was brought up in Wimbledon Village, reached the girls&#8217; final at the French Open in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British world number 719 <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Oliver Tarvet<\/b> makes his Wimbledon debut against Swiss Leandro Riedi in the opening match on court four. Having come through qualifying, Tarvet is in the unfortunate position of not being able to claim all the prize money he would be due because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cp86k5kz3j4o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rules implemented in the US collegiate system.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fourth match on court four features <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Henry Searle<\/b> &#8211; Britain&#8217;s 2023 boys&#8217; Wimbledon champion &#8211; playing American Ethan Quinn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British world number 465 <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Arthur Fery<\/b> takes on Australian 20th seed Alexei Popyrin, on Court 15 &#8211; followed by <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Billy Harris&#8217;<\/b> match with Serbian Dusan Lajovic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Oliver Crawford<\/b>, who was born in the US to British parents, makes his Grand Slam debut at the age of 26 against Italian Mattia Bellucci on court 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Boulter, Fearnley, Raducanu and Xu start their tournaments on the main show courts, there will be 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-224028","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\/114766774630114317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224028","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=224028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}