2023-07-14 23:44:07
Vondrousova challenges Jabeur SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP
The Tunisian and the Czech will aim for a first Grand Slam victory this Saturday (from 2 p.m. in France).
At Wimbledon,
One discovers the Wimbledon final, the other finds it. Olympic vice-champion Marketa Vondrousova swept Elina Svitolina on Thursday in the semi-finals to secure a second Grand Slam final after Roland-Garros 2019 (defeat against Ashleigh Barty in the final). The first non-seeded player to reach the final in London since…the start of the Open era (1968), the left-hander with multiple tattoos still cannot believe it: “ I hadn’t played many matches on grass before. My best result here was a second round (2021). Doing that on clay or hard, maybe I would have thought it possible, but on grass it was impossible for me to imagine. It’s even crazier that it’s happening here. After everything I’ve been through, two surgeries, it’s not easy to come back. I’m just happy to be back on the court and playing pain free. “. Last year at the same time, the Czech had disappeared from the radar following an operation…
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