Rising Canadian star Gabriel Diallo aims to build on strong season at Wimbledon

Gregory Strong · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 27, 2025 10:36 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

At the commencement of the season, Canada's Gabriel Diallo acceptable a extremity of cracking the apical 50 successful the satellite rankings successful 2025.

Mission accomplished connected that beforehand and we're inactive successful the archetypal fractional of the year.

Diallo earned his archetypal vocation ATP Tour rubric this period and is presently astatine a career-high No. 41 successful the rankings. He's hoping to physique connected his caller occurrence erstwhile Wimbledon begins connected Monday.

"He's a feline that is truly unsafe connected immoderate surface," said manager Martin Laurendeau. "He's established himself present arsenic idiosyncratic that a batch of guys, they truly don't privation to gully him due to the fact that of his powerfulness and the information that he's a large lad with a large game."

The six-foot-eight Diallo has the powerfulness to support opponents connected their heels and the interaction crippled to support them guessing.

His skillset was connected afloat show astatine the caller 250-level tourney successful 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Diallo bushed Russia's Karen Khachanov and Ugo Humbert of France — some top-25 players — to unafraid his spot successful the final. He past bushed bully person and Wimbledon doubles spouse Zizou Bergs of Belgium 7-5, 7-6 (8) for the title.

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The 23-year-old Montrealer jumped 11 ranking spots to No. 44 the time aft the victory.

"He's decidedly a precise explosive player," said Denis Shapovalov, 1 of 3 Canadians successful the men's singles draw. "He's got a large service and moves truly good for being a large guy.

"He has improved a batch implicit the past mates years."

Diallo and Shapovalov, from Richmond Hill, Ont., volition beryllium joined successful the 128-player gully by Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., is successful the women's singles main gully on with qualifier Carson Branstine, a California autochthonal who represents Canada done household ties successful Toronto.

Diallo was playing lower-level Challenger events this clip past play and was eliminated successful the 2nd circular of qualifying for the grass-court Grand Slam.

Laurendeau said Diallo has made adjustments connected the surface, utilizing his power, finesse and improvisation skills erstwhile needed.

"He tin marque a batch of guys look and hunt for their crippled and hunt for rhythm, and he's not giving any," helium said successful a caller interrogation from London. "So that's been a bully mode for him to spell astir his business."

Diallo's archetypal afloat play arsenic a pro came successful 2023, a twelvemonth aft helium made his archetypal National Bank Open quality and Davis Cup debut.

He reached a 250-level last past October erstwhile helium bushed 2 top-40 players earlier falling to Khachanov successful 3 sets.

Diallo made his 500-level debut past week astatine the HSBC Championships successful London, dropping his circular of 16 lucifer to 30th-ranked Czech Jiri Lehecka. He followed that up by reaching the quarterfinals of the Mallorca Championships earlier falling to 34th-ranked Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands.

In summation to his Grand Slam schedule, Diallo is tabbed to play events successful Washington, Toronto and Cincinnati up of the Asian plaything this fall.

"A batch of things are inactive caller and exciting," Laurendeau said. "He's fresh, he's dangerous, helium has God knows however galore top-50 wins already.

"Once you bash that, you consciousness similar (you) tin truly spell heavy successful tournaments."

World No. 5 Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa leads Canadian hopes successful doubles play astatine the All England Club. She precocious returned to enactment with Erin Routliffe of New Zealand aft missing a fewer weeks owed to a rib issue.

Competition continues done July 13.