2024-06-03 23:47:03
The 16-year-old Czech can already shine amongst adults and is due to this fact among the many favorites of the juniors on the French Open tennis. Laura Samson, who just lately had the ending “ova” faraway from her identify, efficiently accomplished the primary spherical of the Paris Grand Slam on Sunday.
Within the dwell rating, he’s already within the seventh hundred of the world rating and has achieved appreciable success within the grownup class.
On the finish of Might, throughout a streak of ten matches in a row, she gained two titles on the ITF circuit.
Laura Samson, winner of the award for the Czech expertise of the yr for 2023, triumphed in Kranjska Gora in Slovenia and Bol in Croatia and traveled to the French Open with considerably boosted self-confidence.
She solely bounced again to the junior class for a short while and in Paris she fulfills the position of the seeded three. On Sunday, she entered the Grand Slam with a crushing 6:1, 6:1 win.
Whereas just a few months in the past she entered the matches as Samsonová, now she introduces herself with out the Czech ending.
She had her identify modified for purely sensible causes, as a result of her life was sophisticated by more and more frequent confusion with the seventeenth participant on this planet, Ljudmila Samsonova.
Within the typically used English transliteration, Ruska was spelled the identical as Czechia, i.e. L. Samsonova.
“After I was enjoying Grand Slams, I first seen it final yr, so there was an issue that I used to be getting stringed by Lyudmila Samsonova,” she defined in an interview with Tennis World, including that the issues with the identical identify have been rising.
“I talked about it together with her and he or she generally thought that she was enjoying in line with the schedule, nevertheless it was me. I’d have preferred the ending, however sadly it turned out like this,” she added.
The participant from Říčany pays for one of many greatest hopes of Czech tennis.
The highly effective clothes firm Nike acknowledged her star potential a number of years in the past and signed a contract with the Czech Republic.
“They appeared out for her at tournaments in France. Laura gained these tournaments as a participant a yr youthful within the under-14 class. At Nike, nevertheless, it isn’t nearly successful, of their eyes you even have to fulfill different attributes, have advertising and marketing potential. It is about inner enthusiasm, by some issue X. You turn out to be their face,” defined the coach of the proficient tennis participant, Daniel Filjo.
Final yr, Samson skilled the season of her life, along with Alena Kovačková, she grew to become the junior Wimbledon champion in doubles, on the subsequent US Open she reached the semi-finals of the singles and made it to the Match of Champions designed for the eight greatest junior girls on the planet.
She revealed to Deník Aktuálně.cz that world primary Iga Šwiateková from Poland is a giant inspiration for her among the many present feminine gamers.
However he has appeared as much as his countryman since childhood.
“Since I used to be a baby, I’ve had Petra Kvitova and the international Caroline Wozniacki as my position fashions. Petra is solely a lion, she fights for each ball and I see myself in that. The identical is true with Caroline, furthermore, folks inform me that I look rather a lot like her after I was youthful. I assume that is why I like her and I like her enjoying fashion,” defined Samson.