Barbora Krejcikova gave a surprise this Thursday in the second women’s semi-final of Wimbledon by ending Elena Rybakina’s resistance, 3-6, 6-3 and 6-4. It will be the Czech who meets this Saturday Jasmine Paolini for the tournament scepter.
With Krejcikova’s classification It will be the seventh consecutive time that the third major will crown a new champion. The last one to repeat was Serena Williams, in 2016.
For the first time in the Open Era, The two finalists of a ‘Grand Slam’ had faced each other before in the preview of one of the four great stages of the racket. In this case it was the Australian Open, in 2018.
It should be remembered that Krejcikova already knows what it is to lift a ‘major. She did it in 2021 on the land of Roland Garros.
