2023-07-15 06:23:26
A group of twelve people hold banners with the Tunisian flag and messages of support for Our Jabeur they cheer his name. The protagonist, exultant, leans over the railing to say hello and thank her for the support. She had earned the right to play today (2:30 p.m., Movistar) her second consecutive final at Wimbledon after a brilliant exercise in resistance and faith in herself against Aryna Sabalenka (6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 ) and celebrated with his family.
Jabeur, 28 years old and 6 in the world, is making history, but above all her own, consolidating herself as a favorite over everything and with that point of courage that she sometimes lacked. Today will be the definitive proof of that growth that has led her to win four titles (Birmingham, Berlin, Mutua Madrid Open and Charleston) and to sign two Grand Slam finals (US Open 2022, which she lost to Iga Swiatek and Wimbledon 2022, which lost to Elena Rybakina). But this Jabeur is one step more evolved.
He has a fantastic hand for soft touches, slices, volleys; not as powerful as Sabalenka, for example, but also agile to change heights and rhythms. Thus he cajoled the Belarusian on Thursday and also Frech, Bai, Andreescu, Kvitova (two-time champion on these tracks), Rybakina (to get rid of last year’s thorn) on this complicated road that he had until the last day. “This toughness has given me rhythm and confidence for the final. I am very hard on myself – when she loses a stitch she usually hits her thigh viciously – and the injuries have taught me to be patient. I work a lot on the mental part because I have understood that even if I am not one hundred percent physically, if my head is fine, I can win, “she assured. She plays for herself and for much more: “I am ready, I want my revenge with the Grand Slams and I want to make history not only for Tunisia, but for all of Africa.”
but he wants it too Marketa Vondrousova, the first tennis player who, without being seeded, has reached a Wimbledon final since 1963. The Czech, 24 years old and 42 in the world, already played the final of Roland Garros in 2019 (she lost to Ashleigh Barty), and later entered the the dark side of the sport, with two operations on her left wrist that almost made her disappear from the circuit. So she admits with a smile that being able to challenge for the title is “insane.”
«After two operations you do not know if you are going to recover the level you had. It was very hard. So now I can only be grateful that I can play without pain. And of course, being in this final is incredible. On hard or dirt, good, but on grass? Is it really crazy?», smiled the Czech, tattoos all over her body, good ability to cover the entire court, on the last day after beating Stearns, Kudermetova, Vekic, Bouzkova, Pegula and Svitolina.
This time his partner will be in the box, absent these days because he had to be at home taking care of the family cat, Frankie. “We have already talked to the cat’s babysitter so that he can take care of her, yes,” she smiled.
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