Overview
- Jodar beat fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreño Busta in a two-day, five-set match that finished 3-6, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the Wimbledon third round.
- The match required a medical time-out after Jodar felt a problem with his foot, but he said he recovered and finished the contest; he also served nine aces across the two days.
- OptaAce reports Jodar has 21 match wins since the start of April, a total that overtakes Jannik Sinner in that metric and signals strong recent momentum.
- Jodar is scheduled to play Japan’s Shintaro Mochizuki in the third round, with the winner set to face the survivor of the Sinner–Brooksby section in the fourth round.
- The 19-year-old only turned professional this year and built his rise on clay with a Marrakech title, a Barcelona semi-final and quarter-final runs in Madrid and Rome, and he cites Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz as role models.