Sonay Kartal Wimbledon 2025 Summary
🎾 Performance
Sonay Kartal advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon 2025 with a commanding 6-4, 6-2 victory over France’s Diane Parry.
🏆 Career Highlights
The 23-year-old, born on October 28, 2001, is currently ranked 49th in the world. She has claimed 14 ITF titles and won her first WTA title at the Jasmin Open in Tunisia (2024). Kartal trains at the Pavilion & Avenue Tennis Club in Brighton and Hove under coaches Julie Hobbs and Ben Reeves.
đź“Ź Playing Style
Standing at 5’4” (163 cm), Kartal may be one of the smaller players on the circuit, but she makes up for it with exceptional grit, precision, and mental toughness.
🇹🇷 Background
Born in Sidcup and of Turkish descent, Kartal’s father owned a kebab takeaway and a sit-down Turkish restaurant, reflecting her cultural roots.
❤️ Personal Life
Kartal is in a relationship with British bodybuilder and strongman Luke Ogbourn. The couple has been public since November 2023. Ogbourn has won gold at Iron Beasts 2024 and silver at the UK’s Strongest Man U23 (2024) competition. He is a vocal supporter of Kartal’s career milestones, though his Instagram is currently offline.
Despite their shared sporting backgrounds, Kartal says their training styles couldn’t be more different, joking,
“We don’t gym together. I don’t lift cars and pull cars… Tennis is very specific training.”