Tennis player Markéta Vondroušová celebrated her 22nd birthday on Monday and today she achieved her premiere victory at Wimbledon. She believes that by winning on the grass of London over the 24th seeded Anett Kontaveit from Estonia, she also showed that she belongs to the Olympics.
For Vondroušová, these will be the first Olympic Games. He got to Tokyo thanks to the so-called protected ladder. In singles, it helped her at the expense of Karolína Muchová, who is currently in the singles standings.
“I was pretty bad about it, I fired Kája, who deserved it too, but this is a sport,” Vondroušová said, admitting that she also had bad feelings about the negative reactions of the fans.
According to the rules, however, she could use the protected rankings from 2019, when Roland Garros was fourteen weeks after the final, after which she treated her injured wrist.
“It would be a shame not to use it when it is possible. It is taken to other tournaments and nobody minds. Each of us wants to go to the Olympics and I have been determined to take it since February. Kája knew it, I told her “It’s my first Olympics. Some may say I’m selfish, but I won the place the year before last and there’s nothing wrong with that.”
By winning over Kontaveitová, she gained self-confidence on the grass and can even silence critics. “I beat the player here and people can see that I have a chance to belong there,” Vondroušová said.
The match did not start well for her. In the first set, she played two games against the finalist from Eastbourne and seemed to claim a fourth loss in the 1st round at the All England Club. However, she entered the second set with a break and turned the match around.
“I thought I would go for it, because anything can happen on the grass. Then it started to turn around and I served well,” said the Czech tennis player.
She looked very stubborn in the yard. “I wanted to fight it,” she agreed. She tried to stay focused because she knew the match could turn quickly on the grass. “One or two balls hesitate and it can be the other way around. That’s why I fought until the end,” she said.
Before Wimbledon, it didn’t seem like a Czech clay filmmaker would find a recipe for grass. She always lost in the first round in two tournaments.
“I had heavy tickets, but the workouts were pretty good,” she said. At Wimbledon, she managed a fairly sliding arm this year. “The ball has to run, it’s hard to move, and if it looked good, I’m glad it turned out that way,” she said.
In this year’s Wimbledon, he will be seen in doubles and mixed doubles. “I agreed on a double with Terka Martincová and Roman (Fucking) wrote me that we would write in the mix. I thought it was nice when it worked. I haven’t played the mix yet, so at least I’ll try it,” she said.
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