Canada's Branstine falls to world No. 1 Sabalenka in Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon

Gregory Strong · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 30, 2025 10:26 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Canada's Carson Branstine saw her Grand Slam debut extremity Monday with a first-round nonaccomplishment to satellite No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, falling 6-1, 7-5 astatine Wimbledon.

Branstine fired 7 aces and matched Sabalenka with 17 winners, but the Canadian committed 26 unforced errors and was incapable to person her lone break-point chance.

Still, Branstine recovered her bushed successful the 2nd set, and Sabalenka took notice.

"In the archetypal set, she didn't service great, but successful the second, astir of her serves were 120 mph, which is crazy," Sabalenka said. "I was fortunate to interruption her successful 1 game. Tough match, pugnacious win."

The 23-year-old Branstine, ranked 194th successful the world, earned her spot done past week's qualifying tourney astatine London's All England Club.

WATCH l Sabalenka ousts Branstine in 1st round:

Branstine, who was calved successful California but represents Canada done household ties successful Toronto, was 1 of 4 Canadians successful singles enactment Monday.

Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., seeded 29th, was acceptable to look Britain's Hannah Klugman, portion Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime (No. 25) was drawn against Australia's James Duckworth.

Montreal's Gabriel Diallo was scheduled to marque his Wimbledon main-draw debut against Germany's Daniel Altmaier.