WIMBLEDON — The final points were like the match and the tournament itself. There was a flurry of gutsy winners, nervy errors, rising hopes and risks that didn’t pay off — and Jasmine Paolini trying to claw the Wimbledon title away from Barbora Krejcikova one last time. GO DEEPER Game, Set, Match: Barbora Krejcikova beats Jasmine Paolini to win first Wimbledon titleHer fellow finalist is the newest entrant into the tennis list of enticing characters. Jana Novotna, the Czech great of the 1990s, coughed up a 4-1 lead in the third set against Steffi Graf in the 1993 Wimbledon final. Flash forward nearly two decades, to 2014, and Barbora Krejcikova is trying to find her way as a tennis player.

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Persons: Jasmine Paolini, Krejcikova, —, she’ll, Robert Prange, it’s, Naomi Osaka, Jana Novotna, Steffi Graf, Duchess, Kent, Novotna, Henning Bangen, ” Krejcikova, “, ”, Paolini, Shi Tang, Donna Vekic, ” Paolini, isn’t, Clive Brunskill Organizations: WIMBLEDON, Wimbledon, Court, England Locations: Czech, Novotna’s, Africa