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News Articles: Wimbledon

Italy's Jannik Sinner celebrates after victory against Spain's Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon, southwest London, on Sunday.

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Jannik Sinner wins Wimbledon, Italy's first singles champion

Italy's Jannik Sinner defeated defending champion Carlos Alcaraz to win his first Wimbledon title. Sinner is the first Italian to win the tournament.

July 13, 2025
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  • Kristin Wright
American tennis player Amanda Anisimova celebrates her Wimbledon quarter-final victory against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova this week at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club in London.

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2 years ago, Amanda Anisimova put down her racket. Now she's in the Wimbledon final

Anisimova was a teenage tennis prodigy. But by 2023, tournaments had become "unbearable" for her mental health, and she stepped away. Now, she is a win away from her first Grand Slam title.

July 12, 2025
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  • Becky Sullivan
Spectators wait in the Queue on day one of Wimbledon, June 30.

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Welcome to the Queue, where waiting for Wimbledon tickets rivals the tennis

Tennis lovers don costumes, throw Pimm's parties and camp overnight in line for day-of Wimbledon tickets. Some say waiting in the Queue is more fun than the actual tennis.

July 11, 2025
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  • Lauren Frayer
Edith Johnson and Dorothea Lambert Chambers face off in the 1910 Wimbledon tournament in London. Lawn tennis — the game we know today — started in the late 19th century but has its roots in a medieval sport.

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Lots of people love tennis. But do you know where it comes from?

Recent years have seen an upswing in people playing tennis (or at least dressing like it). But it's not just a phase. The sport — at least some version of it — has been around since medieval times.

July 11, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Emma Navarro of the United States celebrates after defeating compatriot Coco Gauff in their fourth round match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Sunday, July 7, 2024.

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Emma Navarro has defeated Coco Gauff in a Wimbledon upset

This is the first time Navarro has reached the quarterfinals at one of the tennis majors, while Gauff's loss was the latest in a string of exits by top-seeded women at the tournament.

July 08, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
Naomi Osaka of Japan reacts after winning a point against Diane Parry of France during their first round match of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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Naomi Osaka wins her first Wimbledon tennis match in 6 years

Osaka will next play American Emma Navarro in the second round of the tournament.

July 02, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
Carlos Alcaraz with his shiny new trophy.

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Carlos Alcaraz' Wimbledon win and a new era of tennis

The match between the young Alcaraz and the seasoned Novak Djokovic symbolizes what many say is a changing of the guard.

July 18, 2023
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
Czech Republic's Marketa Vondrousova in action against Tunisia's Ons Jabeur during the Wimbledon women's singles final in London on Saturday. Vondrousova became the lowest-ranked woman to win the tournament.

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Marketa Vondrousova, ranked 42nd in the world, wins Wimbledon

Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic became the lowest-ranked and first unseeded woman to win Wimbledon, defeating 2022 runner-up Ons Jabeur of Tunisia.

July 15, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Christopher Eubanks of the US gestures to the crowd after losing to Russia's Daniil Medvedev in their men's singles match on day ten of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Wednesday, July 12, 2023.

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Chris Eubanks' magical Wimbledon ends against Daniil Medvedev, who faces Carlos Alcaraz next

Daniil Medvedev has ended American Chris Eubanks' surprising run at Wimbledon in the quarterfinals. Medvedev came back to beat Eubanks in five sets on Wednesday.

July 12, 2023
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Barbora Krejcikova, top right, and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic, celebrate after beating China's Shuai Zhang, bottom left, and Belgium's Elise Mertens during the final of the women's doubles at the Wimbledon tennis championships in July. Wimbledon is relaxing its requirement for all-white clothing to allow female players to wear colored undershorts.

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Wimbledon will allow women to wear colored undershorts, in nod to period concerns

The tournament will make an exception to its strict all-white clothing rules, after female players described altering their menstrual cycles to not stress about leaking onto their tennis whites.

November 17, 2022
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  • Laurel Wamsley
John McEnroe competes at Wimbledon in 1980.

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John McEnroe grapples with his legacy as tennis' bad boy

McEnroe reflects on his career in a new Showtime documentary: "I was very taken aback, actually, when I went to Wimbledon in London for the first time, and I was like, 'Wow, they're so polite here.'"

September 06, 2022
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  • Dave Davies
Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina holds the trophy as she celebrates after beating Tunisia's Ons Jabeur to win the Wimbledon women's single final Saturday.

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Elena Rybakina wins the Wimbledon women's final for her first Grand Slam

The 23-year-old won the championship at the All England Club with a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Ons Jabeur — the first singles trophy at a major tournament for Rybakina's adopted country of Kazakhstan.

July 09, 2022
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Australia's Ashleigh Barty poses with the winner's trophy on Saturday after winning the Wimbledon women's singles final against the Czech Republic's Karolina Pliskova.

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Barty Is First Australian To Win The Wimbledon Women's Singles Title Since 1980

The 25-year-old Ashleigh Barty beat 29-year-old Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic in three sets, bringing home the first women's Wimbledon trophy in more than four decades.

July 10, 2021
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
United States' Cori "Coco" Gauff reacts after beating United States's Venus Williams in a Women's singles match during day one of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Monday, July 1, 2019.

15-year-old, Coco Gauff, Defeats 5-time Champion Venus Williams At Wimbledon

Coco Gauff surprised the world of professional tennis when she became the youngest to qualify for Wimbledon. On Monday, the 15-year-old continued her...

July 24, 2019
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Gauff Loses To Halep In 4th Round At Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The Latest at Wimbledon (all times local): 3:50 p.m. Coco Gauff’s Wimbledon run is over. The 15-year-old American lost to...

July 16, 2019
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  • Associated Press

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