Wimbledon 2025: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova knocks out Naomi Osaka
04 Jul 2025

Japanese star Naomi Osaka has been knocked out of 2025 Wimbledon after losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

The 2021 French Open runner-up claimed a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 win in the women's singles third-round clash at Court 2.

Pavlyuchenkova has reached this stage at Wimbledon for the second time in her career.

With this, the Russian player completed 91 wins at Grand Slams.

A look at match stats
Match stats

Pavlyuchenkova won a total of 93 points and 31 winners throughout the match. She prevailed despite conceding 15 aces to Osaka.

The former had a win percentage of 66 and 46 in the first and second serves, respectively. She converted five of her eight break points.

Notably, Pavlyuchenkova had more unforced errors (35) than Osaka (27). The latter registered six double-faults.

Pavlyuchenkova at Grand Slams
Grand Slams

As mentioned, this was the second instance of the experienced Pavlyuchenkova reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon. She was the quarter-finalist in 2016.

Pavlyuchenkova is now 18-15 at the Championships.

Overall, the Russian star has raced to a 91-62 win-loss record at Grand Slams. She lost the 2021 French Open final to Barbora Krejcikova.

Pavlyuchenkova equals this player
Fact

As per Opta, Pavlyuchenkova now has the joint-biggest gap (2016-2025) between her two R16 appearances at Wimbledon in the Open Era (women's singles). She equaled the record of Pam Teeguarden, who did so between 1972 and 1981.