2023-07-15 16:49:29
Huge surprise of this 2023 edition of the London Major, the 24-year-old player won this Saturday July 15 in the final (6-4; 6-4). For Ons Jabeur, that makes three defeats at this stage of the competition in the space of a year.
The “Minister of Happiness” will still have to wait to become president. After losing twice last year in the final of a Grand Slam (at Wimbledon and the US Open), the Tunisian Ons Jabeur had this Saturday, July 15 a new opportunity to hang a Major on her record. . She finally lost in two sets in the Wimbledon final against the Czech Marketa Vondrousova, surprise of this fortnight (6-4; 6-4). Tunisia, and Africa, will still be waiting to win a Grand Slam that has eluded them since the start of the Open era (1968).
For Vondrousova, the story is beautiful. Surprise finalist at Roland-Garros in 2019, when she was only 19 years old at the time, she lost to the future world No. 1, Australian Ashleigh Barty. Promised to play the leading roles in world tennis, the Czech had not confirmed, never managing to do better than a round of 16 Grand Slam.
This season, Marketa Vondrousova, 24, was still struggling. Eliminated in the third round at the Australian Open, in the second at Roland-Garros, she was in 42nd place in the WTA rankings and was very far from being a favorite. With her victory this Saturday, she will climb to tenth place in the world and will now have a new status to assume. Once his victory at Wimbledon savored.
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