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Wimbledon 2025: This player becomes 1st Turk to reach Rd 3

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By Sujay Shivalkar
Published Jul 04, 2025

Zeynep Sonmez

Zeynep Sonmez became the first Turkish player in the professional era to reach third round of a Grand Slam tournament by beating Xinyu Wang at Wimbledon 2025

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Zeynep Sonmez

At Wimbledon 2025, Sonmez registered a convincing and hard-fought win of 7-5 7-5 over Chinese tennis player Wang

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Zeynep Sonmez

Uptill now, no Turkish male or female tennis player had made it to the third round of a major tournament, since the Open Era began in 1968

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Sonmez has a WTA title under her belt, at last year`s Merida Open, but with this new feat, the Turk looks like a promising talent for her country

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