Sabalenka predicted Raducanu will “soon” return to the top 10 in the world rankings. The more pressing challenge, though, is for the Briton to create some stability. There are technical improvements to make, but Sabalenka match showed Raducanu’s best tennis can compete with anyone

Aryna Sabalenka will once again emerge as a big winner in the top 10 of the WTA Rankings after Wimbledon while defending champion Barbora Krejcikova finds herself at the other end of the scale. With the semi-finals set,

British number one Emma Raducanu is out of Wimbledon after falling short of top seed Aryna Sabalenka in a gripping third-round match.

MORE than five million people tuned in to watch Emma Raducanu’s incredible Wimbledon battle with Aryna Sabalenka on Friday night. Located in a prime time slot on BBC One, the match received

Playing against 15,000 opponents is no easy task, but that is what Aryna Sabalenka must have felt she was up against as she faced Britain's big hope, Emma Raducanu, in a rollicking third round Wimbledon showdown on Friday.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is enjoying her 16th campaign at Wimbledon but has only reached the third round on four previous occasions. The Russian has only once gone further than ro