Canadian singles hopes end at Wimbledon with Auger-Aliassime, Mboko both eliminated

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 03, 2025 10:29 AM EDT | Last Updated: 18 minutes ago

Canada's singles hopes astatine Wimbledon ended Thursday arsenic fortunate loser Victoria Mboko and 25th-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime were some eliminated successful second-round matches.

The 18-year-old Mboko, who earned her spot successful the main gully aft a precocious withdrawal, fell 7-6 (6), 6-3 to Hailey Baptiste of the United States. The Toronto autochthonal led 5-2 successful the first-set tiebreak, but couldn't convert, dropping 5 of the adjacent six points to suffer the set.

WATCH | Auger-Aliassime ousted successful 2nd round:

Auger-Aliassime dropped a 3-6, 7-6 (11), 6-3, 6-4 determination to unseeded German Jan-Lennard Struff successful a lucifer suspended Wednesday nighttime owed to darkness. The Montreal merchandise had 16 aces, but converted conscionable 3 of 13 break-point chances.

Auger-Aliassime was trying to scope the 3rd circular astatine the All England Club for the archetypal clip since his 2021 quarterfinal run.

WATCH | Mboko's Wimbledon ends:

Also Thursday, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., and New Zealand's Lulu Sun mislaid their women's doubles opener 6-2, 6-1 to Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands and American Asia Muhammad.

Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski is inactive live successful women's doubles with spouse Erin Routliffe of New Zealand, portion Montreal's Gabriel Diallo is competing successful men's doubles with Belgium's Zizou Bergs.

Djokovic adds different record 

Novak Djokovic added different grounds to his sanction by reaching Wimbledon's 3rd circular for a 19th clip with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-0 triumph implicit Dan Evans connected Centre Court connected Wednesday.

It was Djokovic's 99th lucifer triumph astatine Wimbledon overall, and the 19 third-round appearances enactment him 1 up of Roger Federer for astir by immoderate antheral successful the Open Era.

It's hardly the astir prestigious grounds for Djokovic, whose 24 Grand Slam titles — including 7 astatine Wimbledon — are the astir by a antheral player. But helium could astatine slightest usage it to poke amusive astatine his new, and overmuch younger, main rivals.

"Nineteen times, that's a large stat," said the 38-year-old Djokovic. "That's astir apt astir arsenic overmuch arsenic Sinner and Alcaraz person years successful their lives."

Well, not quite.

Carlos Alcaraz, who bushed Djokovic successful the past 2 Wimbledon finals, is 22, portion No. 1-ranked Jannik Sinner — who was playing aboriginal connected Centre Court — is 23.

The increasing rivalry betwixt Sinner and Alcaraz — particularly successful the aftermath of their five-set last astatine the French Open past period — has helped tennis determination connected from the epoch of the Big Three, wherever Djokovic is the past antheral lasting aft Federer and Rafael Nadal retired.

But Djokovic is excessively focused connected proving helium tin inactive triumph different Slam to beryllium backmost and bespeak connected everything helium has accomplished astatine Wimbledon.

"I don't intermission to reflect, to beryllium honest. I don't person time," Djokovic said successful an on-court interview. "I would similar to. But I deliberation that's going to travel astir apt erstwhile I acceptable the racket speech and past sip margarita connected the formation with Federer and Nadal and conscionable bespeak connected our rivalry and everything."

Against Evans, Djokovic failed to person his archetypal 9 interruption points successful the archetypal set. But erstwhile helium got the breakthrough for a 5-3 pb — raising some arms successful the aerial arsenic if to accidental "finally" — helium went five-for-six connected interruption points the remainder of the way.

"You person these kinds of days wherever everything goes your way," said Djokovic, who didn't look a interruption constituent of his ain until the last game. "Everything flows."

What other happened Thursday astatine Wimbledon?

No. 7-seeded Mirra Andreeva and No. 10 Emma Navarro some precocious successful consecutive sets. The 18-year-old Andreeva earned a 6-1, 7-6 (4) triumph implicit Lucia Bronzetti of Italy, and Navarro cruised past Veronika Kudermetova 6-1, 6-2. No. 11 Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, bushed Maria Sakkari 6-3, 6-1.

In the men's draw, No. 11 Alex de Minaur ousted 115th-ranked Arthur Cazaux 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-0 and 19th-seeded Gregor Dimitrov outlasted Corentin Moutet 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, 7-5.

Who plays Friday astatine the All England Club?

Alcaraz, the two-time defending champion, faces 35-year-old Jan-Lennard Struff connected Centre Court, earlier No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka faces British location favourite Emma Raducanu successful the precocious match. Australian Open champion Madison Keys faces Laura Siegemund connected No. 2 Court.