Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic became one of the most unlikely Wimbledon champions Saturday, beating Ons Jabeur, a trailblazing Tunisian, in straight sets.
Vondrousova, 24, became the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon and the latest in a long line of Czech-born women to lift the most important trophy in the sport, going back to Martina Navratilova’s domination of Wimbledon in the 1980s, after Navratilova had defected to the United States.
Like Navratilova, who was watching from a box, Vondrousova is a left-handed player with a nasty slice serve that she used throughout the afternoon in the tensest moments when Jabeur tried to take control of the match or mount yet another comeback.
The similarities with Navratilova, an aggressive serve-and-volleyer who burst into the sport as a teenager, mostly end there.
Persons:
Marketa, Martina Navratilova’s, Navratilova, Jabeur
Organizations:
Wimbledon, Saturday
Locations:
Czech Republic, Tunisian, Czech, United States