Wang Ziying of China celebrates after beating Yui Kamiji of Japan to win the final women’s wheelchair singles match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 12, 2025. (John Walton/PA via AP)
Wang Ziying of China celebrates with the trophy after beating Yui Kamiji of Japan to win the final women’s wheelchair singles match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 12, 2025. (John Walton/PA via AP)
Wang Ziying of China celebrates, left, with the trophy after beating Yui Kamiji of Japan, right, to win the final women’s wheelchair singles match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 12, 2025. (John Walton/PA via AP)
Japan’s Yui Kamiji with her runners up trophy after losing to Wang Ziying of China in the final women’s wheelchair singles at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 12, 2025. (John Walton/PA via AP)
Britain’s Kate, Princess of Wales, meets Ziying Wang, women’s singles wheelchair champion with Ralph Yin coach and translator, as she arrives to attend the women’s singles final between Poland’s Iga SwiÄ…tek and Amanda Anisimova of the US at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 12, 2025. (Jordan Pettitt/Pool via AP)
Wang Ziying of China wins women’s wheelchair singles at Wimbledon
Wang Ziying of China won her first Grand Slam title in women’s wheelchair singles by beating top-seeded Yui Kamiji of Japan 6-3, 6-3 on Saturday at Wimbledon.
Wang Ziying of China celebrates after beating Yui Kamiji of Japan to win the final women’s wheelchair singles match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 12, 2025. (John Walton/PA via AP)
Wang Ziying of China won her first Grand Slam title in women’s wheelchair singles by beating top-seeded Yui Kamiji of Japan 6-3, 6-3 on Saturday at Wimbledon.
Wang had lost eight of her previous nine matches against Kamiji, who has 10 major titles in singles and was looking to complete a career Grand Slam with a first championship at Wimbledon.
But Wang converted her fifth set point in the first set after a marathon game that went to deuce nine times, and then clinched victory on her first match point when Kamiji netted a backhand.
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In the men’s wheelchair doubles final, No. 2 seeds Martin De la Puente of Spain and Ruben Spaargaren of the Netherlands won their first Wimbledon title by beating top-seeded British duo Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid 7-6 (1), 7-5.
Hewett and Reid have won six Wimbledon doubles titles, including the last two.
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