Heartbreak for Jabeur as she retires in the first round of Wimbledon 2025
Ons Jabeur quit her opening round battle against Viktoriya Tomova at the SW19 on Monday due to illness
Ons Jabeur at Wimbledon | © Zuma / Psnewz
Ons Jabeur suffered a heartbreak on the opening day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships as she was forced to retire against Viktoriya Tomova in the first round on Monday. She was trailing 7-6 (5), 2-0 when she decided to quit.
Jabeur was reduced to tears early in the match as she walked to her chair after five games. She called for the tournament physio promptly and had her blood pressure and vitals checked. She then opted for a medical timeout for further treatment.
The Tunisian returned to court after a 14-minute halt and competed strenuously but couldn’t maintain her level in the second set, hence retiring due to illness.
This was Jabeur’s earliest exit from Wimbledon since 2019. She reached the finals of the grass-court Major in 2022 and 2023, losing to Elena Rybakina and Marketa Vondrousova, respectively. In 2024, she reached the third round and lost to Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina.
Svitolina claims the first win of Wimbledon 2025
Elina Svitolina won against Anna Bondar 6-3, 6-1 on Monday. She’ll face the winner of the match between Varvara Gracheva and Aliaksandra Sasnovich next
Elina Svitolina in action at Wimbledon | © Chryslène caillaud / psnewz
Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 14 seed, reached the second round of Wimbledon by defeating Hungarian Anna Bondar 6-3, 6-1 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Monday.
Svitolina needed only 63 minutes to finish the job. She hit two aces, 18 winners and broke Bondar four times to claim the first win of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships.
The result meant that the Ukrainian remains undefeated in 21 first-round appearances at the Grand Slams in the last seven years.
Svitolina, ranked No 13, will play the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva and Belarusian qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich 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
Leylah Fernandez vs. Hannah Klugman
Lulu Sun vs. Marie Bouzkova
Yanina Wickmayer vs. Renata Zarazua
Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Aoi Ito
Jasmine Paolini vs. Anastasija Sevastova
Ann Li vs. Viktorija Golubic
Diana Shnaider vs. Moyuka Uchijima
Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Madison Keys
Olga Danilovic vs. Shuai Zhang
Greet Minnen vs. Olivia Gadecki
Varvara Gracheva vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Carson Branstine
Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Rebecca Sramkova
Bernarda Pera vs. Linda Noskova
Peyton Stearns vs. Laura Siegemund
Anca Todoni vs. Cristina Bucsa: monday
Viktoriya Tomova vs. Ons Jabeur: monday
Diane Parry vs. Petra Martic: monday
Eva Lys vs. Yue Yuan: monday
Kimberly Birrell vs. Donna Vekic: monday
Sonay Kartal vs. Jelena Ostapenko: monday
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