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WIMBLEDON – It was impossible to ignore the story that was taking place at the Center Court. A friendly heroine. An unlikely return. A performance for the ages. Royals! Until the last point of the Wimbledon women's final on Saturday, the screenplay seemed to be out of the pages of an English tale. Most of us missed it during the majority of this fortnight.
We were all so focused on the remarkable return of a Grand Slam champion on 23 occasions of maternity leave that we neglected the history of Cinderella on the other side of the world. court. Watch Angelique Kerber hoist the Rosewater Dish Venus into victory and read that moment that Serena Williams losing her chance for a fairy-tale end, or seeing Kerber as the spoiler in Williams' heart-warming story, would have been a bad service to the way "After 2017, no one expected me to come back so hard, to win my third Grand Slam, win Wimbledon, which was still my dream," said Kerber after becoming the first one to win. one of five women to beat Williams in a Grand Slam final. "Two weeks ago, no one expected to be able to go that far."
Angelique Kerber won her third career Grand Slam title, beating Serena Williams at Wimbledon to deny the seven-time champion in her 24th major.
Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova, who teamed up to win the French Open doubles title, will play Kveta Peschke and Nicole Melichar for the Wimbledon crown.
Novak Djokovic def. Rafael Nadal in a five innings that lasted more than 5 hours.He will be vying for his fourth Wimbledon title against Kevin Anderson.
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It's possible it's not until the German's 30 years lying face-up on the perennial rye, his raid at his side and his hands were gripping the corners of his visor, tears streaming down his cheeks, as attention only turned to Kerber – a Wimbledon champion for the first time in her career.Although she stormed the first few rounds, dropping only one set of all tournaments and beating three players in the top 18 before facing Williams, Kerber was not l e name on the lips of anyone.
in the final – even when she was on a plateau and 5-2 – the story was that Williams was down, not that the hard Kerber could close the match at any time. It was as if the Central Court crowd was expecting Williams to spray a few ace of 125 mph, which she did to close the fifth match of the first set, transforming her fate to 180 degrees and accomplish something else. do against Kerber this fortnight: stop it.
"From the first point to the last point, she played unbelievable today," said Williams of Kerber. "It was really a different game [than I’ve seen this tournament] but sometimes she hit the ball very hard, she hit the ball today."
The last time Williams and Kerber clashed, it was here on the center court for the 2016 Wimbledon championship, where Serena has been avenged six months earlier in the final. Australian Open, to win her 22nd Grand Slam title, equaling Steffi Graf's record in Open, which she will overthrow at the Australian Open the following year. Kerber rebounded from this Wimbledon defeat in 2016 to win the US Open two months later. During the year 2016, the powerful southpaw won two major tournaments and competed in the final of another and climbed to the top of the world rankings.
Then Kerber almost disappeared, destined, apparently, to follow the path of a player like Ana Ivanovic, the Serb who jumped during a season, won the 2008 French Open and has never seen another Slam Finals. In 2017, overwhelmed and overloaded, Kerber failed to break out of the fourth round of a major, dropped out of the top 20 and dismissed his longtime coach. No one would have been surprised if she was unable to return to relevance. That she was one of the most consistent players on tour this year, in the quarterfinals or better at Melbourne, Indian Wells, Paris and Wimbledon, and that she returned to the top 10 is a remarkable achievement and a testament to his mental strength, even though it has gone virtually unnoticed until now.
"Without 2017, I could not win this tournament," Kerber said. "I learned a lot from last year, with all the expectations, all the things that I go through, I learned so much about myself, about how to handle that, I'm I tried to enjoy every moment. [it was hard] to find the motivation after 2016, which was unbelievable.To redo such a year is impossible.Now just trying to [improve] my game, do not too much thinking about the results, trying to be a better tennis player, a "
Kerber entered the 10th world rank of Wimbledon, but he's ranked just outside the top 10 As the women over her flipped themselves like dominoes in the Wimbledon wind, history became their defeat instead of Kerber plowing the draw. an unexpected benefit for Kerber, whose performance went unnoticed throughout the first six rounds, although she remained the remaining seed after the fourth. But Kerber was not interested in attention. She did not care to be history – not until she did something interesting. After Saturday's performance, Angelique Kerber is no longer a secondary plot.
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Angelique Kerber looks back on her magnificent 6-3 6-3 win over Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam champion, for her first win of the Wimbledon title.
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