{"id":1728,"date":"2025-07-04T17:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2025-07-04T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:48:04","slug":"wimbledon-day-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/2025\/07\/04\/wimbledon-day-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83c\udfbe <strong>Wimbledon Day 4 Recap \u2013 3 July 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday brought a mix of dominance and drama to SW19 as the fourth day of Wimbledon 2025 unfolded with intense action and a few surprising turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd7a <strong>Men\u2019s Singles Recap<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Novak Djokovic<\/strong> was back to his ruthless best, sweeping aside Britain\u2019s <strong>Dan Evans<\/strong> in straight sets (6\u20113, 6\u20112, 6\u20110), showing he&#8217;s a serious contender for the title.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Top seed <strong>Jannik Sinner<\/strong> made light work of <strong>Aleksandar Vukic<\/strong>, dropping just five games in his victory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Marin Cilic<\/strong> rolled back the years to upset home favorite <strong>Jack Draper<\/strong> in four sets, shaking up the draw.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ben Shelton<\/strong> was on the verge of a third-round berth before his match was halted due to fading light.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other notable winners included <strong>Alex de Minaur<\/strong>, <strong>Grigor Dimitrov<\/strong>, <strong>Jan\u2011Lennard Struff<\/strong>, and <strong>Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udc83 <strong>Women\u2019s Singles Recap<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2022 champ <strong>Elena Rybakina<\/strong> made quick work of <strong>Maria Sakkari<\/strong>, while <strong>Iga Swiatek<\/strong> recovered from a set down to beat <strong>Caty McNally<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Defending titleholder <strong>Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1<\/strong> had to fight hard but eventually overcame <strong>Caroline Dolehide<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Emma Navarro<\/strong>, <strong>Mirra Andreeva<\/strong>, and <strong>Daria Kasatkina<\/strong> also moved forward, along with rising names like <strong>Sonay Kartal<\/strong>, who reached the second week for the first time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2600\ufe0f <strong>Conditions &amp; Vibe<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The day enjoyed beautiful weather, with sunny skies and warm temperatures around 24\u00b0C\u2014ideal for fast, clean tennis.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With many top seeds already out in both draws, the tournament continued its unpredictable trend, leaving room for new contenders to emerge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Onto the Fantasy Leaderboard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have yet another new leader and this time the leader comes from 14th spot. &#8216;Deuce Bags&#8217; has zoomed to the top of the leaderboard after a brilliant day 4. They lead by 2 points over &#8216;SERVED&#8217; who remains in 2nd. &#8216;Wuthering Heights&#8217; was another team which impressed on day 4 moving up 11 places and into 3rd place. There is a 4 way tie for 4th place between &#8216;Hard Hitters&#8217;, &#8216;Sinsational&#8217;, &#8216;Drop Shot like it&#8217;s Hot&#8217; and &#8216;Grass is Greener&#8217;. This joint 4th place is just 5 points behind the leader. So close all round at the moment. <br>The wooden spoon is currently being won by &#8216;Forrest Town&#8217; who are lagging behind on just 38 points.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"759\" src=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Day-4-Top-Half.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1732\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Day-4-Top-Half.png 354w, http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Day-4-Top-Half-140x300.png 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Top Half<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"356\" height=\"718\" src=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Day-4-Bottom-Half.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1733\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Day-4-Bottom-Half.png 356w, http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Day-4-Bottom-Half-149x300.png 149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bottom Half<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfbe Wimbledon Day 4 Recap \u2013 3 July 2025 Thursday brought a mix of dominance and drama to SW19 as the fourth day of Wimbledon 2025 unfolded with intense action and a few surprising turns. \ud83d\udd7a Men\u2019s Singles Recap \ud83d\udc83 Women\u2019s Singles Recap \u2600\ufe0f Conditions &amp; Vibe Onto the Fantasy Leaderboard We have yet another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wimbledon-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}