{"id":249275,"date":"2025-07-08T23:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249275\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T23:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:41:11","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-survives-the-wimbledon-heat-world-no-1-into-semi-finals-with-rollercoaster-comeback-to-beat-laura-siegemund-37-despite-23c-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249275\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka survives the Wimbledon heat: World No 1 into semi-finals with rollercoaster comeback to beat Laura Siegemund, 37, despite 23C temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Top seed\u00a0Sabalenka came from a set down to beat\u00a0Siegemund 4-6, 6-2, 6-4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Sabalenka admitted she needed to &#8216;cool down and recover&#8217; after her victory<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The tournament favourite overcame her frustrations to battle back to triumph\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-3302\/Matthew-Lambwell.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MATTHEW LAMBWELL<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  11:42 EDT, 8 July 2025   |  Updated:  16:04 EDT, 8 July 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/aryna-sabalenka\/index.html\" id=\"mol-cb2cddf0-5c36-11f0-a660-2d37f9475923\" rel=\"noopener\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> admitted she had mentally booked her plane home before squeaking through against rank outsider Laura Siegemund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The world No1 lost the first set and trailed 3-1 in the decider before eventually coming through the quarter-final 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018She pushed me so much,\u2019 said the 27-year-old Belarusian. \u2018After the first set I was looking at my box like, \u201cWe need to book the tickets, we\u2019re leaving this beautiful place\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After 37-year-old German Tatjana Maria forehand-sliced her way through a forest of big hitters to win the Queen\u2019s Club title last month, 37-year-old German Siegemund almost chopped down the grandest oak of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The world No 104 rained down drop shots and Sabalenka\u2019s lack of poise and feel around the net was exposed. She returned and served poorly too &#8211; but she kept her cool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It is not just the variety of Siegemund\u2019s game which is maddening. She is seen as a dark artist in the locker room and here she was delaying before Sabalenka\u2019s serve &#8211; not \u2018playing to the speed of the server\u2019 as per the rules &#8211; and took a seven-minute loo break after the second set.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2b4070eb08a3c1aa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100117061-14886149-image-a-3_1751988489428.jpg\" height=\"421\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Aryna Sabalenka battled back to beat\u00a0Laura Siegemund to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Aryna Sabalenka battled back to beat\u00a0Laura Siegemund to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-6a17380c03b8d183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100117071-14886149-image-a-17_1751988622939.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Sabalenka's frustrations were on show as\u00a0Siegemund threatened to cause a major upset\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Sabalenka&#8217;s frustrations were on show as\u00a0Siegemund threatened to cause a major upset<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7f894dd7d9496188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100117011-14886149-image-a-18_1751988628924.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Siegemund took the opening set and lead in the decider, but ultimately came up narrowly short\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Siegemund took the opening set and lead in the decider, but ultimately came up narrowly short<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I was trying to focus on myself and make sure I don\u2019t give her that energy,\u2019 said Sabalenka. \u2018I didn\u2019t want her to see I was annoyed by her even if I was a little bit at some points.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sabalenka will not face many slice forehands in her semi-final against Amanda Anismiova, but she will face a woman who has won five of their eight meetings. The 23-year-old American beat Anastasiya Pavlyuchenko 6-1, 7-6.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Aryna Sabalenka survives the Wimbledon heat: World No 1 into semi-finals with rollercoaster comeback to beat Laura Siegemund, 37, despite 23C temperatures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top seed\u00a0Sabalenka came from a set down to beat\u00a0Siegemund 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 Sabalenka admitted she needed to &#8216;cool&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[35772,92,93,79,1068,16,15,5068],"class_list":{"0":"post-249275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-sport","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114820263854380657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249275","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=249275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}