Alcaraz Ends Tarvet’s Wimbledon Adventure, Paolini Crashes OUT

Carlos Alcaraz Ended Oliver Tarvet’s Wimbledon Adventure on Wednsday (July 3, 2025), Seeing off the British Amateur in Straightur in Straight Sets to Reach the Third Round as Last Year -up Jasmine Paolini Joined the exit of stars.

A Record-Breaking Number of Top seeds Crashed out at the all England Club in the first found but alcaraz and women’s world number one aryna sabalenka avoided second second-shocks on cenocks

Defending Champion Alcaraz Needed Two Hours and 17 Minutes to Subdue World Number 733 Tarvet, Who Produced Flashes of His Emerging Talent to Delent the Partisan Crowd.

“First of all I have to give big praise to oliver.

“I knew i had to play my best tennis.

Alcaraz has won his past 20 matches, a blistering streak that has brought Him Titles at the rome masters, the french open and queen’s club.

The 22-year-old, who beat jannik sinner in the final at Roland Garros Last Month, Has Won 31 of His 34 Tour-Lour-Lour Mats on Grass–His Last Defeat at Wimbledon Came Against Sinner in the Fourth Round in 2022.

The second seed hopes to become the fifth man in the open era to win at least three cultural wimbledon titles after BJON Borg, PETE Sampras, Roger Federer and SEVEN-TIMEN Novak Djokikovic.

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In stark contrast, the unhelded tarvet is just starting his tennis career and cannot even collect all of his wimbledon prize money.

As a student of the university of San Diego, the 21-year-old has to mainTain amateur status and must give up most of his earings.

While Alcaraz is a five-time Grand Slam Champion, Tarvet was playing just his second Main Draw Match after Coming Through Three Qualifiers and Beating Leandro Riadi in the opening rounding.

“It was just really special. It’s not every day that you get to play against maybe the best player in the world. I did a pretty good job of enjoy of enjoying the moment and trying to play some go.

Seeds tumble

In the first two days, eight of the top 10 seeded players across the men’s and women’s singles draws were eliminated, a Grand Slam Record in the Open Era.

Second Seed Coco Gauff, Third Seed Jessica Pegula and Fifth Seed Zheng Qinwen All Lost in the first found.

And Italian fourth seed paolini was next to stumble in the second round on Wedns.

Paolini, Beated by Barbora Krejcikova in the 2024 Wimbledon Title Match, Slumped to a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 Defeat Against Russian World Number 62 Kamilla Rakhimova.

But sabalenka bucked the trend, out-dueling 48th-ranked marie bouzkova 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 in a Heavy-Hitting Contest.

The Belarusian, Who Suffered Painful Defeats in the Finals of Both the Australian Open and the French Open this year, lased an impressive 41 winners in a match laying one hour and 35 minutes.

“Honestly it’s very sad to see so many top players losing but you better focus on yourself,” said the three-time grand slam winner.

“I hope it’s no upsets anymore in this tournament, if you know what i mean!”

Sabalenka’s next opponent is britain’s emma raducanu, the former us open champion beating 2023 Wimbledon Winner Marketa Vondrousova 6-3, 6-3.

Sixth Seed and Australian Open Champion Madison Keys also Advanced, Making Short work of Serbia’s olga danilovic in a 6-4, 6-2 win.

On the men’s side, 13 seeded players lost in the first round, breaking the previous tournament record of 11 and tying the 2004 Australian open for the most at a Grand Slam.

American 12th Seed Frances Tiafoe was the latest Leading Man to Suffer the Agony of An Early Defeat, Going Down 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 Against British World Number 61 Cameron Norm.

But fifth seed taylor fritz avoided the same fate, winning a second successive five-set Marathon under the court one roof aganst gabrill dialo to program.

The Eastbourne Champion, who has played on all three days of the tournament so far, was pushed all the way by the canadian but clinched the final set 6-3.

“That’s an incredibly hard match … Tomorrow is going to be a very light hit,” said the American.

Published – July 03, 2025 03:46 AM IST