Cameron Norrie Playing in Wimbledon
On July 7, Cameron Norrie is the only hope for the British for the Wimbledon 2025 singles title in London, UK.
The first week of tennis has been full of events. Wimbledon 2025 is in London, UK in the city’s famous courts with grass. Even though there were great expectations for the British with success on the home turf, only one British person is left.
3 British players, Cameron Norrie, Sonay Kartal, and Emma Raducanu, have been featured here.
Cameron Norrie made it to the quarter finals by beating Chilean Nicolas Jarry in a close 5 set match on Sunday, July 6. This means he might get to go to the semi finals British number 3 Norrie won the first two sets while Jarry won the third and fourth. The last one would be the tie breaker and the fifth set decider. The competitive and ferocious game for both Norrie and Jarry and lasted an exhausting 4 hours and 27 minutes. The final result was: 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (7-9) 6-7 (5-7) 6-3. When Norrie was asked how he made it to the quarters, “Honestly, I do not know,” he said. “Nico did an unbelievable job of sticking with me. I had to keep fighting.”
Just a few hours after Norrie won, another British tennis player Sonay Kartal, who was the very last home player still standing in the women’s singles, was beaten by Anatasia Pavlyuchenkova 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 on Centre, or Center Court. “I think I have definitely had a bit more attention on me this week from people recognizing me to fans around the grounds to my social media. It’s kind of blown up a bit ,”23-year-old Sonay said. “The better in tournaments I do, I guess the more exposure I get. I think it will naturally come. But I would say that people have gotten to know me a little bit better this week.”
At the same time, British number one Emma Raducanu’s Wimbledon journey came to a halt on Friday. She was beaten by top seed and world number one Aryna Sabalenka 7-6 6-4.
Cameron Norrie is the only British player left. Currently Norrie is ranked 61st in the world after stumbling with a forearm injury last season but is now one win away from going to the semi finals again. He is following his last motion to the final four in 2022. However, he has to beat the world number 2 defending Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz from Spain first. If he wins, the British are going to the semi finals with four people left! Let’s hope all the other British teams will also be successful like Alfie Hewett who hopes to repeat his success.