Canada’s Diallo out of Wimbledon after five-set loss to Italy’s Sonego

LONDON — Canada’s Gabriel Diallo is out of the Wimbledon men’s draw after a marathon five-set loss to Italy’s Lorenzo Sonego in second-round action Thursday.

Diallo twice came back from a set down before losing 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (6), 6-2 in a match that took four hours 23 minutes to complete.

Sonego, who improved to 2-0 against Diallo, scored an early break to go up 2-0 in the final set.

Diallo got the break back to cut Sonego’s lead to 3-2, but the Italian won against serve in the next game and again to clinch the match.

Diallo had been broken just once over the previous four sets.

Diallo’s loss leaves fellow Montreal native Félix Auger-Aliassime as the lone Canadian left in singles competition. The third seed is scheduled to face American Michael Zheng in a third-round match Friday.

In first-round women’s doubles competition at the grass-court Grand Slam, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., and Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putinseva fell 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 to third seeds Anna Danilina of Kazakhstan and Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 2, 2026.

The Canadian Press