Canada's Carson Branstine earns spot in Wimbledon women's singles main draw

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 26, 2025 11:29 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Canada's Carson Branstine booked her spot successful a first-career Grand Slam main draw, portion Victoria Mboko bowed retired successful gutting manner Thursday successful Wimbledon qualifying.

Branstine won 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2 implicit Raluca Georgiana Serban of Cyprus successful the last qualifying circular astatine the grass-court tennis tournament.

The 24-year-old fired 48 winners to 20 for Serban, who besides deed 10 treble faults.

Branstine, a California autochthonal who represents Canada done household ties successful Toronto, besides eliminated Roland-Garros semifinalist Lois Boisson and Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., successful the archetypal 2 qualifying rounds.

The 18-year-old from Toronto deed 11 treble faults and 4 aces. She besides converted lone 5 of 17 breakpoint opportunities.

Mboko, who reached the French Open 3rd circular successful May, volition person to hold to vie successful her 2nd Grand Slam unless she's drawn arsenic the fortunate loser.

Auger-Aliassime moves into Mallorca semis

Felix Auger-Aliassime rallied for a 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 triumph implicit Serbia's Hamad Medjedovic successful Thursday's quarterfinals astatine the Mallorca Championships.

The Montreal autochthonal fired 11 aces and broke Medjedovic 3 times connected six chances.

Auger-Aliassime, seeded 2nd and ranked 27th successful the ATP Rankings, improved to 7-0 successful tour-level quarterfinals this season. He's present tied with satellite No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz for the astir semifinal appearances successful 2025.

He'll look Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands successful Friday's semi astatine the grass-court event.

Griekspoor bushed Montreal's Gabriel Diallo 6-4, 6-4 earlier Thursday.

Diallo had 8 aces but couldn't person his lone break-point opportunity.

The six-foot-eight Diallo, who entered the tourney with a career-high No. 41 ranking, is owed to marque his Wimbledon main-draw debut astatine the All-England Lawn Tennis Club adjacent week.