Wimbledon: Ostapenko crashes out in first round

Sonay Kartal beat Jelena Ostapenko 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 on Monday. She’ll face Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova in the next round

24th June 2025; Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England; Lexus International Eastbourne, Day 2; Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) shows emotion in the match against Sonay Kartal (GBR) Jelena Ostapenko | © Action Plus / Psnewz
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Sonay Kartal moved into the second round of Wimbledon by winning against Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 20 seed, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Monday.

Kartal started strong and took the opening set after a close fight. Ostapenko fought back in the second set to level the score, however, the Brit crushed her hopes of a comeback in the third as she threatened a bagel by winning five games in a row.

The Latvian took one break back and avoided the embarrassment but couldn’t stop her opponent, losing in an hour, 58 minutes.

This was Ostapenko’s first opening-round defeat at Wimbledon after 2019. She reached the quarter-finals last year.

Kartal, ranked No 51, will face Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova next.

London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 53.500.000, most recent results first):

  • Dayana Yastremska vs. Coco Gauff
  • Victoria Azarenka vs. Anastasia Zakharova
  • Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Ella Seidel
  • Sofia Kenin vs. Taylor Townsend
  • Maya Joint vs. Liudmila Samsonova
  • Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Francesca Jones
  • Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Kaja Juvan
  • Daria Kasatkina vs. Emiliana Arango
  • Elina Avanesyan vs. Elena Rybakina
  • Maria Sakkari vs. Anna Blinkova
  • Anna Kalinskaya vs. Nina Stojanovic
  • Clara Tauson vs. Heather Watson
  • Veronika Erjavec vs. Marta Kostyuk
  • Camila Osorio vs. Danielle Collins
  • Catherine McNally vs. Jodie Burrage
  • Iga Swiatek vs. Polina Kudermetova
  • Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Jessica Pegula
  • Katie Volynets vs. Tatjana Maria
  • Alycia Parks vs. Belinda Bencic
  • Magda Linette vs. Elsa Jacquemot
  • Priscilla Hon vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
  • Suzan Lamens vs. Iva Jovic
  • Zeynep Sonmez vs. Jaqueline Cristian
  • Karolina Muchova vs. Xinyu Wang
  • Petra Kvitova vs. Emma Navarro
  • Veronika Kudermetova vs. Lin Zhu
  • Caroline Dolehide vs. Arantxa Rus
  • Barbora Krejcikova vs. Alexandra Eala
  • Anastasia Potapova vs. Magdalena Frech
  • Hailey Baptiste vs. Sorana Cirstea
  • Jil Teichmann vs. Lucia Bronzetti
  • Mirra Andreeva vs. Mayar Sherif
  • Katerina Siniakova vs. Qinwen Zheng
  • Naomi Osaka vs. Talia Gibson
  • Ashlyn Krueger vs. Mika Stojsavljevic
  • Yulia Putintseva vs. Amanda Anisimova
  • Elise Mertens vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
  • Marketa Vondrousova vs. McCartney Kessler
  • Emma Raducanu vs. Mingge Xu
  • Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
  • Paula Badosa vs. Katie Boulter
  • Harriet Dart vs. Dalma Galfi
  • Jasmine Paolini vs. Anastasija Sevastova
  • Leylah Fernandez vs. Hannah Klugman
  • Lulu Sun vs. Marie Bouzkova
  • Yanina Wickmayer vs. Renata Zarazua
  • Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Aoi Ito
  • Ann Li vs. Viktorija Golubic
  • Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Madison Keys
  • Diana Shnaider vs. Moyuka Uchijima
  • Olga Danilovic vs. Shuai Zhang
  • Greet Minnen vs. Olivia Gadecki
  • Varvara Gracheva vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
  • Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Rebecca Sramkova
  • Peyton Stearns vs. Laura Siegemund
  • Aryna Sabalenka vs. Carson Branstine
  • Bernarda Pera vs. Linda Noskova: monday
  • Cristina Bucsa beat Anca Todoni: 6-4, 6-4
  • Viktoriya Tomova beat Ons Jabeur: 7-6 (5), 2-0 ret.
  • Diane Parry vs. Petra Martic: monday
  • Eva Lys vs. Yue Yuan: monday
  • Donna Vekic (22) beat Kimberly Birrell: 6-0, 6-4
  • Elina Svitolina (14) beat Anna Bondar: 6-3, 6-1

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