2024-07-13 22:36:34
It is the end on which we have not bet a kopeck before the start of the competition. After the elimination of Iga Swiatek in the third round or even Elena Rybakina, in the semi-finals, the Italian Jasmine Paolini (7th) and the Czech Barbora Krejcikova (32nd) created a surprise by reaching their very first final at Wimbledon. If the match seemed open on paper, it was the Czech in the end who ended up winning (6-2, 2-6, 6-4 in 1h56 of the match).
In a season that has been cut by injuries, illness then injured in the back, Krejcikova was only able to play ten matches (for three victories) between February and June, this session at Wimbledon is the tour crown of A fighter who will win is what we talk about. about you more often. She became, along with Simona Halep, one of two current players to win a title at both Roland Garros and Wimbledon.
The Londoners thought for a moment that they were entitled to a demonstration this Saturday afternoon in the center court of the All England Club. With an entry break from the beginning of the match, Barbora Krejcikova quickly ordered her powerful attacks from the ground on her opponent. On each short ball, the seven-time doubles Grand Slam winner beat the Italian with his forehand topspin. In contrast, the winner of the last WTA 1000 in Dubai, far from her short base, has not managed to take the game into her own hands. Within 35 minutes, the 32nd in the world finished the first set 6-2 without a tremor.
But, five weeks after his quick defeat in the Roland-Garros final against the queen of clay, Iga Swiatek, Jasmine Paolini this time seems to want to go with the honors. From the first game of the second set, the Italian returned with more aggression and more intent while the Czech was less mobile. More on his basis, he is now 7th in the world who took the game into his own hands and broke in his time to lead 2-0.
Independently, Roland’s final finisher then let go of a few more of his attacks like this big comeback win at 4-1. And he also won the second set 6-2. While she had not won a match on London grass before this edition, Jasmine Paolini, who excelled in serving (88% of the points she won on her first ball) began to dream of a first Grand Slam.
Experience wins out in the end
But there it is, opposite Paolini, and despite their same age (28), Krejcikova has the experience of big finals. Having already won Roland-Garros in 2021, the 32nd in the world has a track record which combines, in doubles, a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics (2021) and all possible Grand Slam titles in doubles (seven in total). Tone less than his opponent in the game, at the beginning of the last round, the Czech managed to be patient and wait for the Italian mistakes to break.
On Paolini’s first double fault of the match at 3-3, the native of Tuscany won the break and brought the Czech closer to his second Grand Slam. And not two break points to equalize at 5-5 will worry the Brno native who, at 28, has become the new queen of the All England Lawn Tennis Club. She defeated another Czech, Marketa Vondrousova, Wimbledon winner last year.
“I can’t find the words. This is the happiest day of my career as a tennis player,” an emotional Barbora Krejcikova declared at the end of the match. I would like to congratulate Jasmine Paolini and her team. He fought on all the balls and has achieved something amazing in the last two weeks. I am glad that I have won. I don’t think anyone around me really believes it. Even I find it hard to believe.”
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