Sonay Kartal is enjoying a career-defining run at Wimbledon 2025 and she is set to celebrate by adding another tattoo to her already impressive collection after the tournament.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old, who started the 2025 season at No 87 in the WTA Rankings, is projected to rise to a new career-high No 44 after reaching the fourth round at the grass-court Grand Slam.<\/p>\n
She is already assured of being the new British No 2, moving one place ahead of Emma Raducanu after the 2021 US Open winner lost in the third round, while she will also overtake Katie Boulter and become the No 1 if she wins her next match against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the fourth round.<\/p>\n
Kartal has 14 tattoos and asked after her first-round win over 20th seed Jelena Ostapenko if she will get another one to celebrate, she replied: \u201cI would have to go a few rounds further to get one, I think. Maybe if I made it to the second week, I\u2019ll probably get one. Knowing me, I\u2019d get one.\u201d<\/p>\n
She has now gone a few more rounds, beating Viktoriya Tomova and Diane Parray, and stated: \u201cMy next tattoo? I did say I would get my \u2018colour holder\u2019 number after I played the Billie Jean King Cup, when I got that live rubber. That\u2019s going to be one of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m open to suggestions. Like if people throw me some good ideas, I will definitely consider them. 90% I would end up going with one of those ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n
She was also asked about her most special tattoo.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have one on the back of my arm which is one of my first dog, a massive golden retriever. I bought some like doggy ink and got his paw print downsized, got it tattooed and put into a little picture on the back of my arm,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n
Emma Raducanu\u2019s former junior rival Sonay Kartal becomes the star of the show<\/a><\/p>\n What prize money and ranking points did Emma Raducanu earn for her Wimbledon campaign?<\/a><\/p>\n There is also a quote: \u201cThe show must go on.\u201d<\/p>\n Does it relate to anything specific?<\/p>\n \u201cNot really. I\u2019d like to say it did, but honestly, on that one I just liked the design,\u201d she said. \u201cMy tattoos all started with meaning. Then I guess the more I got, the kind of more spontaneous and braver I got. Yeah, I mean, early days I would have to like it for a good few months. Whereas now I like it for two days, and I\u2019ll get something put on.\u201d<\/p>\n What about the other tattoos?<\/p>\n The eagle is to celebrate her Turkish heritage as her father hails from the European country and Kartal means eagle in Turkish.<\/p>\n The bumblebee was added after this year\u2019s French Open as she was initially due to get matching tattoos with her sister after the first round, but had to postpone her ink meeting: revealing: \u201cMe and my sister got a matching bumblebee. I gave her the choice. She said, \u2018Will you get tattoo with me?\u2019 I said yeah. Came off after my first match and she had got the bumblebee. So I had to hold my word, and yeah, I went in the end of the week to get that one.\u201d<\/p>\n There is also a black-and-white checkerboard heart.<\/p>\n This is the \u201cspecial\u201d one of her first dog, Chester, who passed away two years ago.<\/p>\n Another quote, but unlike \u201cThe show must go on\u201d this one has a meaning.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just a quote I like to live by. Sometimes I think I can get a bit stressy and stuff, so for me, it kind of just tells me it\u2019s like to calm down, just to be in the moment a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the many tattoos that don\u2019t have a special meaning, as she \u201d was just scrolling through my phone and saw that one as well\u201d.<\/p>\n This one does have a meaning as it\u2019s \u201cThe date, it says 2022, I did all the four Grand Slams my first time.\u201d<\/p>\n Another one that is yet to be discussed publicly, but it one of the more visible ones when she wears sleeveless shirts.<\/p>\n Karatal also has at least four tattoos on her knuckles and she admitted: \u201cThese ones kind of have no meaning. The knuckle ones just trying to be stylish maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Sonay Kartal\u2019s tattoos: What they mean and her next one<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sonay Kartal is enjoying a career-defining run at Wimbledon 2025 and she is set to celebrate by adding another tattoo to her already impressive collection after the tournament. The 23-year-old, who started the 2025 season at No 87 in the WTA Rankings, is projected to rise to a new career-high No 44 after reaching the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Left forearm \u2013 An eagle, a bumblebee and a checkered heart<\/h4>\n
Left bicep \u2013 Paw print<\/h4>\n
Right thigh \u2013 \u201cTime is everything we have and don\u2019t\u201d<\/h4>\n
Right forearm \u2013 A snake<\/h4>\n
Left hand \u2013 The date<\/h4>\n
Right bicep \u2013 A butterfly<\/h4>\n
The rest\u2026<\/h4>\n