LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 04: Madison Keys of the United States reacts while playing against Laura Siegemund of Germany in the third round on Day Five of The Championships Wimbledon 2025 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 04, 2025 in London, England (Photo by Robert Prange/Getty Images)
(July 4, 2025) More upset shockers on Friday at Wimbledon – No. 6 seed and Australian Open champion Madison Keys lost to No. 104th-ranked Laura Siegemund of Germany 6-3, 6-3 in the third round.
With American Keys’ exit means just one of the top six women remain in the Wimbledon draw before the end of week one and that’s No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka. No. 2 Coco Gauff, No. 3 Jessica Pegula, No. 4 Jasmine Paolini and No. 5 Zheng Qinwen were already knocked out.
“At times, it wasn’t the best quality, let’s say. But I managed, and in the end, it’s just important to find solutions and I did that well. Kept my nerves in the end,” Siegemund said, then added with a laugh: “There are always nerves. If you don’t have nerves in this moment, you’re probably dead.”
“You can’t not be happy when you beat a great player like Madison,” Siegemund said.
Coming into the tournament, the German veteran was 2-5 here, never making it past the second round.
“There is technically no pressure for me,” said Siegemund, who at 37 is the oldest woman remaining in the draw. “I try to remember that I only play for myself. I don’t feel like I need to prove anything anymore. My boyfriend often tells me that.”
The men’s field has seen a Wimbledon record 13 seeds upset in the first round.
Former No. 1 Naomi Osaka has still never made it past the third round of Wimbledon. Now ranked at 50th in the world, the woman from Japan lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Osaka was disappointed with her play: “actually thought I could play well, like, in general” and “make a deep run here.”
“I wanted to do better than I did before,” she said. “Also, I felt like I was trying so hard.”
She had no positive things to say about her play at Wimbledon. “I’m just going to be a negative human being today. I’m so sorry. I have nothing positive to say about myself, which is something I’m working on.”
“I’m glad to be done with this,” she said about the grass court season, “and I’m looking forward to the hard courts.”
“A majority of you were cheering for Naomi, but that’s OK,” Pavlyuchenkova, told the crowd at Court No. 2. “I’m mentally tough, so that didn’t bother me at all. The opposite: It gave me energy.”
Top seed Aryna Sabalenka needed to rally from a break down in both sets as she stopped the hometown favorite Emma Raducanu 7-6 (6), 6-4 in the third-round Friday night in a 95-minute match.
The Belarusian said that she pretended that the boisterous crowd was cheering for her.
“Guys wow — what an atmosphere. My ears are still hurting. It was super loud,” she said in an on-court interview.
“She pushed me really hard to get this win. I’m happy to see her healthy and back on track,” Sabalenka said after the match. “I’m pretty sure that soon she’s going to be back in the top 10.”
Sabalenka will face her former doubles partner Elise Mertens in the fourth round.
Two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz needed four sets to defeat Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Centre Court on Friday to reach the fourth round. The Spaniard now has extended his winning streak to 17 straight victories at Wimbledon.
“I was suffering in every service game I did today,” Alcaraz said. “Love 30, break points down. It was stressful. He kept pushing me. I kind of survived and I am really happy that I got the break and it was done.”
“I knew at the beginning it was going to be really difficult,” Alcaraz said. “That I would have to be really focused on every shot and on my service games and return. I think his game suits pretty well to the grass. Big serves. Approaching the net as much as he can. I am really pleased with everything that I have done today. Fighting, running, making great shots. I tried to make the opportunities he gave to me in the match and I am just proud with the way I won in four sets.”
No.5 Taylor Fritz won 6-4, 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-1 over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.
“There are lots of parts of my game that work well on the grass,” Fritz concluded, “and it’s nice to play quicker points, get rewarded when I want to pull the trigger on a ball, take a chance. I love the fact that I get rewarded for going for some risky shots and I can play aggressive.”
American Ben Shelton completed his second-round match held over from Thursday night in about a minute against Rinky Hijikata in straight sets.
Another American No. 13 Amanda Anisimova also advanced to the fourth round.
