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After two weeks of Wimbledon, chaotic, wild and seedless, we are finally here for the last day of the ladies. The big names fell in less than four days. Little known names became known
By Manic Monday, there remained only one top-10 women – Karolina Pliskova. She fell to Kiki Bertens in their fourth-round match leaving Angelique Kerber, setting up a stellar year after a disappointing 2017, the highest seed remaining in the tournament at age 11.
Kerber was unperturbed by his colleagues Continued quietly to dismantle players of different caliber. Caroline Garcia, Muguruza Garbine, Simona Halep, Petra Kvitova, Elina Svitolina, Caroline Wozniacki – just a few of the names that packed their bags at dawn on Sunday. Kerber had a tough encounter with former Grand Slam finalists Vera Zvonareva in the first round, followed by one of WTA's promising batches in Naomi Osaka's third round
Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber meet in the women's singles final at Wimbledon. Reuters
If you look back, Kerber has been challenged by some of the youngest and most talented players in the women's game today. There may have been direct victories but each of them has tested it in different ways and closer than the numbers suggest. Belinda Bencic had a great tournament after a long period of injury and played a great game, but did not manage to get rid of Kerber's defense. Daria Kasatkina brought all her weapons, impressed the Center Court crowd with her backhand jumps and goal throws, but Kerber had the patience to counter Kasatkina's finesse. In Jelena Ostapenko, Kerber struck a player who is still happy, but the German kept his discipline while Ostapenko lost his.
If we talk about the best fallen heads, there is a player, had no problem to get to this day – Serena Williams. In the run-up to the Grand Slam this year, there was much talk of Williams sowing as she was making a comeback after giving birth to a child. It's a very necessary conversation that involves other players also trying to get back to the top of the game, like Victoria Azarenka. Even Zvonareva, who qualified for Wimbledon for the first time since 2014, is on the long road after her maternity and hiatus.
Williams was finally ranked 25th, but through the six rounds, she played as if she had never left. That's true because the last time Williams played at Wimbledon, she was the champion. She invented the kind of tennis that would obliterate all opponents en route, and in retrospect, it would not matter how much of the draw she was placed on.
After the birth of his child and subsequent medical complications, Williams made a gradual return to the tennis circuit. Do not get me wrong, we are amazed by her game these past two weeks because we had a glimpse of a Williams rusty by Indian Wells and Miami in March when she came back.
In four months, old Williams with her old serve and ground game has come to the fore on the Wimbledon lawns. She has progressed through the rounds and Williams is now playing a tennis so clean that from now on, in any upcoming tournament, it's hard not to mark her as favorite.
The beauty of this edition of Wimbledon drama, we still have a glittering finale on the cards with two brand names. Their matches as well and if their recent history means something, a terrible final is in store.
Kerber had a series of poor 2017 results after his breakthrough Grand Slam at the Australian Open and US Open in 2016. She beat Williams in Melbourne and lost to London. Without Karolina Pliskova, we would have got a third Williams-Kerber final at the US Open this year, which Kerber did for his second Grand Slam.
But the players come back from the edge, but for different reasons. both have a point to prove. Williams returns to the place where she belongs and at the same time she continues the number of 24 Grand Slam titles of Margeret Court. Kerber would like to win the coveted Wimbledon title that she has approached in 2016 in a hotly contested final.
Williams, the greatest of all time, has the greatest service in history. Kerber is one of the meanest on tour whose defensive game has the weapons to match Williams, racquet head racket head, southpaw right-handed.
If you look at the longest rallying count column for women on the Wimbledon site, some first results have a line occurring multiple times – "Kerber wins the point." This will be the key for a counter-striker like Kerber – extending rallies, keeping Williams moving at all times, and effectively defending Williams angles, as someone like Kerber is better than anyone else in tour.
Kerber heads the returns made this tournament to 88 percent and won 47 percent of his return games. Williams will be hard to beat, winning 89% of her service matches and 80% of her first serve points. Both lost a set on their way to the final.
At the press conference after her semi-finals, Kerber told Williams that she was a champion, always pushing you to play the best tennis, ending up with a chance to beat her. "It's an old-fashioned finale in a new bottle.The head-to-head figures (Williams leads 6-2) can sometimes distract the attention from the real story.Attack vs. Defense.Late vs. Right.All bets are disabled
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