The next Grand Slam of the season is fast approaching, as Wimbledon begins on June 30.
©Daniel Bearham / AFPRoland-Garros 2025 will live long in the memory, but now the Tours have transferred from the terre battue to the turf. That’s right, it’s the grass court stint in the calendar, with Wimbledon launching into action at the end of the month in south west London.
Here are the key headline so far…
As a Wimbledon semi-finalist (2022), there shouldn’t be too much surprise in Tatjana Maria ruling Queen’s Club on Sunday.
However, the 37-year-old arrived in London on a nine-match losing streak to compete in the first women’s tour event at Queen’s since 1973.
Seven victories in nine days, the German dropped just one set all the way through qualifying to the title. Utilising her crafty, slicing and dicing grass court game, Maria outfoxed four Top-15 players in a row to lift the trophy.
Maria overcome Karolina Muchova from a set down, edged No.4 seed Elena Rybakina 6-4, 7-6(4), before a 6-3, 7-6(3) scoreboard with Australian Open champion Madison Keys.
Into the final and she thrived as the frontrunner 6-3, 6-4 versus world No.15 Amanda Anisimova, writing “Queen of Queen’s” on the courtside broadcast camera.
"It means a lot to me, because I'm 37-years-old and I won this trophy today," said Maria, who halved her ranking from No.86 to No.43 on Monday.
"People were always saying, 'Oh, now maybe it's time. You are too old. You are...' Whatever reason they say sometimes.
"I'm a good example that even in my age you still can win big trophies. I'm super proud of myself that I could win this tournament, because actually, I believed always in it, and my husband too. That's why we kept also going, because there was always this belief that I can win big tournaments and that I can do great things on the court."
Maria’s two daughters and husband-coach Charles had a front row view of Maria’s sublime showing in west London.
"It's such a special moment for all of us, like a family together," said Maria, undefeated in four WTA finals. "We won this trophy together, because we stick together and we are doing everything together. So it's not like only me that I won this trophy today. It's like my whole family won this trophy."
Former world No.12 Elise Mertens continues to serve up milestone moments.
Over in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, the Belgian captured her 10th WTA singles title, first on grass courts, with a 6-3, 7-6(4) scoreline over the net from Elena-Gabriela Ruse.
Mertens, who now owns titles on all three major playing surfaces, also won in Singapore back in February.
"It's been an incredible week. Yesterday, I had 11 match points against me, and I managed to still win that match,” said Mertens, referring to a miraculous escape against Ekaterina Alexandrova in the semi-finals.
“It's tennis; anything can happen, so I'm very proud that I took that change yesterday, and today, it was an amazing match."
Still in 's-Hertogenbosch and Canada’s ever-improving Gabriel Diallo inched past Zizou Bergs 7-5, 7-6(8) for his maiden ATP title.
Diallo erased three set points in the tie-break to cancel out the heartbreak he felt in a final defeat in Almaty, Kazakhstan, last October.
“Oh man, I don’t have the words. It’s something that you dream of for your whole life since you were a little kid, to get an ATP Tour title,” said Diallo, rising to a career-high world No.44.
“The fact that I was able to do it here after losing a final last year, it just means the world to me. I’m very happy, not only for myself but for my whole team.”
Taylor Fritz clinched his fourth ATP title on grass and ninth of his career with a 6-3, 7-6(0) passage past world No.3 Alexander Zverev in Stuttgart.
The American has now won his past five duels with Zverev and is the first player to lift a tour-level title without losing serve since Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard last October in Basel, Switzerland.
"It was not so great a clay season,” admitted Fritz, returning to world No.4 on Monday. “So to come here and start the grass season off perfectly, I am super happy to get the title and to do it here.”
Roland-Garros 2025 singles finalists are already back into the heat of the battle.
Champion on Court Philippe-Chatrier after THAT final, Carlos Alcaraz has been drawn to take on fellow Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina at Queen’s Club on Tuesday.
Over to Halle, Germany, and world No.1 Jannik Sinner will open his quest against home charge Yannick Hanfmann.
Also in Germany, nine of the WTA world’s Top 10 are competing in Berlin. Can Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka transfer their form from Paris?
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