Wimbledon 2025 live updates: Day 6 latest with Sinner on court before Djokovic, Shelton, Świątek in action – The New York Times

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Play has resumed on the sixth day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships after poor weather caused delays to this morning's matches.
No. 1 Jannik Sinner is on court in his match against Spain's Pedro Martinez, as is Mirra Andreeva (7) in her match against USA's Hailey Baptiste.
Novak Djokovic (6) and American Ben Shelton (10) will both play later on in their third round matches, while Iga Świątek (8) will compete on the women's side.
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We got treated to some of the very best tennis on Centre Court last night in the match between Aryna Sabalenka and Emma Raducanu.
And I’m telling you some of the rallies in the game between Mirra Andreeva and Hailey Baptiste have been among the best I’ve watched this tournament. Crowd pleasing back and forths. The kind of rallies which make you wonder why we bother watching any other sports.
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With Jannik Sinner, it's the noise the ball makes when he hits it as much as anything that's always most striking about seeing him live. Especially on a day like today with the roof on. He leads Pedro Martinez of Spain 6-1, 1-1.
It's middle Saturday here at Wimbledon which means the biggest names in sport get an invite to the Royal Box.
And there's no shortage of gold on show — at least when it comes to Olympic medallists invited along today. Just some of the British stars to have won gold in their respective disciplines are Dame Kelly Holmes (Athletics), Dame Denise Lewis (Athletic), Sir Jason Kenny and Dame Laura Kenny (cycling), Dame Sarah Storey (cycling and swimming Paralympian), Kadeena Cox (cycling and athletics Paralympian) and Alex Yee (triathlon).
Sinner 6-1, *0-0 Martinez
Perhaps it was optimistic to think Martinez could come back from there, particularly against the No. 1 seed.
Too little to late in that set for him as Sinner steams through the first set.
Sinner *5-1 Martinez
Well, just as it looked like Jannik Sinner was about to bagel Pedro Martinez, that Spaniard called a medical time out.
He's back after receiving treatment and managed his first hold in the sixth game of this set, before taking a couple of early points in this seventh game.
Mirra Andreeva has made light work of this first set against American Hailey Baptiste which she takes 6-1. Andreeva who was born in 2007 almost looks machine like out there with some of the shots she is playing.
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Matches have resumed on the outdoor courts after that weather delay and both show court matches are also ongoing.
On Centre Court, Jannik Sinner leads Pedro Martinez 3-0, while on No. 1 Court Mirra Andreeva holds a 6-1, 2-1 lead over Hailey Baptiste.
In the men's singles, no massive upsets, with Carlos Alcaraz (2), Taylor Fritz (5), Andrey Rublev (14), and Karen Khachanov (17) advancing.
Wins, too, for the unseeded Cam Norrie, Nicolas Jarry, Jordan Thompson, and Kamil Majchrzak.
In the women's, Madison Keys (6) was the only seed to fall to an unseeded opponent in Laura Siegemund.
Elise Mertens (24) progressed against Elina Svitolina (14), with Amanda Anisimova (13), Linda Nosková (30), Solana Sierra, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Brit Sonay Kartal also through.
Then Aryna Sabalenka, the top seed, beat another Brit in Emma Raducanu in the night match on Centre Court. And a fine match it was, too.
Aryna Sabalenka put her French Open troubles behind her Friday night by overcoming a hostile crowd and an at-times inspired Emma Raducanu to advance to the Wimbledon fourth round with a 7-6(6), 6-4 win. Afterward, she said that she feels like “a different person” to the one who imploded at Roland Garros a month ago.
No one questions the world No. 1’s ability, but her struggles and loss in the French Open final against Coco Gauff invited questions about whether a raucous atmosphere got to her. She also lost to Gauff from a set up in the 2023 U.S. Open final, when she appeared overwhelmed by the support for her opponent.
The ingredients were there for the same thing to happen at Wimbledon, as a raucous Friday night crowd roared in hopes of inspiring an upset. Raducanu, their hometown player and the world No. 40, did not look overawed.
Raducanu ultimately fell short, but this is a performance that will give her a huge amount of confidence.
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Just as an update on the progress of weather conditions for the outdoor courts, the latest news is that there will be no play before 1.30pm GMT/8.30am EMT as the rain covers remain on.
Let's hope the rain clears off and the courts dry out for action to resume soon.
At Wimbledon 2024, Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev reached the bottom of a very deep hole. In a first-round defeat to Argentina’s Francisco Comesana, Rublev obliterated his racket against his leg in frustration, as had become a habit for him.
Rublev, who has reached 10 major quarterfinals but never gone beyond the last eight at a Grand Slam, later discussed the impact of tennis on his mind at that time. He acknowledged that defeats had left him without control of his thoughts off the court, that he had reached a point when he did not “see the reason of living life.”
“Sometimes you learn the most from the worst cases,” Rublev said during an interview in Dubai earlier this year, another place of things were coming full circle. For Rublev, learning meant speaking to a psychologist, as well as reconfiguring his feelings about himself as a tennis player.
That mindset explains why reaching the second week this year is such a milestone.
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While we wait for action to resume on the outdoor courts, a reminder of the action coming up shortly on the show courts at Wimbledon — both of which have the benefit of
Centre Court (1.30pm BST/8.30am EDT start)
No. 1 Court (1pm BST/8am EDT start)
South America is having itself a pretty solid Wimbledon, just not in the way anyone might have expected.
When the tournament started, names like Fonseca or Haddad Maia seemed far more likely for runs to the second week than the surviving South Americans.
When the dust settled Friday evening, it had two players in the rounds of 16, in Nicolás Jarry of Chile and Solana Sierra of Argentina. It’s hard to overestimate how hard they had to get there.
Jarry has barely won matches since he made the Italian Open final last year. He had to survive qualifying to earn a first-round date with Holger Rune, where he came back from two sets down to win. On Friday he beat João Fonseca, tipped for stardom when he is a little older, in four sets.
As happens sometimes at Wimbledon, the British summer weather has not held out meaning light rain has passed over SW19 in the last hour.
The covers are on and all matches have been suspended for the time being.
Naomi Osaka said she felt numb after her third-round defeat to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at Wimbledon Friday.
Osaka won the first set and looked on her way to a first fourth-round appearance at the All England Club, before eventually succumbing to a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 defeat. She is yet to reach the second week of a Grand Slam since returning to the tour for the 2024 season, following the birth of her daughter, Shai.
Asked to compare how she felt after this latest loss with her devastation at losing to Paula Badosa in the first round of Roland Garros in May, Osaka said: “In Paris, I was very emotional. Now I don’t feel anything, so I guess I’d prefer to feel nothing than everything.”
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Tauson 4-4* Rybakina — play suspended
And there it is, we have a stoppage in this match on No. 2 Court.
The rain covers are on and the players have headed inside at a fairly crucial point in this set.
The aerial shots over Wimbledon show that is the case in plenty of the other outdoor courts too.
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Tauson 4-4* Rybakina
This is Tauson's fourth Wimbledon appearance and this year she has made it further than ever before.
It's a close contest between the two players after 36 minutes of action as Tauson makes another hold.
A few umbrellas are going up around the stands as Tauson slid as touch on a return there. The umpire is out of his chair to inspect the grip of the court.
A little more drizzle has come down and the grass will be getting slippery.
Even the lightest rain can make a court incredibly dangerous to play on and the umpire will likely have a tricky judgment call to make soon.
Light drizzle over No. 2 Court as Elena Rybakina, the 2022 champion, duels with Clara Tauson, the No. 23 seed.
Rybakina's graceful power and pinpoint serve suit grass perfectly, but Tauson is having early success drawing errors from Rybakina's racket with slice.

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