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Marketa Vondrousova, 24, wowed galore tennis fans erstwhile she became the women’s azygous Wimbledon champion with a a 6-4 6-4 triumph connected Saturday. The Czech jock defeated Tunisian player Ons Jabeur in consecutive sets during the memorable match, and made past arsenic the archetypal unseeded winner. The authoritative Wimbledon Twitter relationship didn’t hesitate to item her large accomplishment erstwhile they shared a station that featured a photo of her successful daze connected Centre Court aft the triumph and called her “unstoppable.”
Since galore tennis fans were rooting for Ons during the match, Marketa’s triumph was shocking. Ons mislaid to Elena Rybakina during past year’s final, truthful her supporters were hoping for a triumph this year, and aft she was defeated by Marketa, Ons called the nonaccomplishment “the astir achy nonaccomplishment of my career” successful her post-match interview, according to the Independent.
Find retired much astir Marketa and her inheritance below.
She didn’t vie successful Wimbledon past year.
Marketa won Wimbledon connected July 15, 2023. (Shutterstock)
Despite coming retired connected apical this year, Marketa was really successful a formed aft going done country connected her near wrist this clip past year. She went to London, England to enactment her friend, Swedish subordinate Mirjam Bjorklund, who was playing successful qualifying for the archetypal time. Marketa talked astir the quality a twelvemonth has made successful an interrogation published a time earlier she won Wimbledon.
“I mean, present connected grass, it was astir intolerable ’cause, arsenic I said, I didn’t play galore matches connected writer before,” she said, according to Yahoo News. “My champion 1 was 2nd round. Yeah, I mean, for me, erstwhile it was clay oregon hard, possibly I would say, yeah, possibly it’s possible. But writer was intolerable for me. It’s adjacent crazier that this is happening.”
She was runner-up astatine the 2019 French Open.
The effect made her the archetypal teenage Major finalist successful astir a decade. In summation to that achievement, she won 1 singles rubric retired of 4 finals connected the WTA Tour and a metallic medal astatine the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. She is besides a erstwhile inferior satellite No. 1, winning 2 large doubles titles.
Marketa’s been playing tennis since she was 4 years old.
Marketa during her tennis match. (Shutterstock)
Her begetter introduced her to the athletics and she started playing recreationally. Her parent was besides into sports and played volleyball for SK Slavia Prague successful the top-flight Extraliga. In summation to tennis, Marketa tried different sports similar skiing, football, array tennis, and floorball, but tennis is what she decided to continue. She entered a nationalist mini-tennis tourney connected Štvanice land successful Prague successful 2006, and finished third. She past became qualified for an planetary tourney successful Umag in Croatia. As an eight-year-old competing against mostly nine-year-olds, she mislaid successful the archetypal circular but won the consolation bracket.
She is supported by different Czech tennis players.
The caller champion admitted to talking to Barbora Krejcikova and Karolina Muchova earlier large matches, successful a erstwhile interview, and said they enactment each different whenever they can. “I talked with Barbora Krejcikova earlier the [semifinal],” she said during this year’s Wimbledon. “She’s here. I texted besides with Karolina Muchova. We are from the aforesaid club. I consciousness similar we conscionable enactment each other.”
Marketa has go the 4th Czech pistillate to scope the Wimbledon last and the 3rd successful the past 10 years, joining two-time champion Petra Kvitova and erstwhile No.1 Karolina Pliskova. She besides became the archetypal subordinate to bushed 5 seeds to triumph a large rubric since Barbora astatine Roland Garros successful 2021 and the archetypal astatine SW19 since Petra won her archetypal Wimbledon rubric successful 2011. “In Czech, we person truthful galore large players,” Marketa besides said. “We besides enactment each other. It’s precise bully to see.”
Marketa got joined successful 2022.
She joined IT task manager Stepan Simek successful Prague successful July of past year. The lovebirds person reportedly known each different since they were children and dated for 7 years earlier saying “I do.” She took to Instagram soon aft the wedding to stock sweet photos from the peculiar time and received a batch of congratulatory messages.
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