Küng missed the big shot at Wimbledon

Saturday at Wimbledon offers three major matches: The extension of the Djokovic semi-final Nadal, the women's final between Angelique Kerber and Serena Williams and the junior women's final with Schaffhauser Leonie Küng.

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Leonie Küng – Iga Swiatek

Movement 2

Küng is not necessarily worse off than the Pole. It must develop in terms of accuracy, especially service. So also with the return. Then the trick is always in it. Once again, Küng 's talent for improvisation makes perfect sense. She praises her opponent with a volley. Roaring applause in the stadium now very well filled. Nevertheless, in this first service, the Pole is not quite ready for the break. Did Küng digest the loss of sentence? It looks like that. She plays good balls and now she hits the lines better. He balances at 1: 1.

Swiatek continues to serve excellently. When the first service arrives, it is difficult for the Swiss to enter the match. Swiatek always tries to push first. She has already beaten 23 winners against 9 of Küng. However, some mistakes also accumulate.

In the second serve, Küng leads 40:15 and then produces two double faults in a series, followed by a backhand error. Breakball against them: A very tight ball of the Poles. Küng plays, her ball lands in the end and only then she demands the challenge. Of course, it will not work. Swiatek pauses and then confirms with sovereign service 4.1

The next Küngs service game is again difficult. The Polish catches him again and again with basic blows of impressive strength and precision. Küng certainly fights and shortens 2: 4.

But the Polish withdraws her power play and raises to 5: 2. Now we need a marvel of tennis, otherwise the game is finished quickly.

And it is a fact: Leonie Küng is subject to Swiatek in the women's final of Wimbledon in two sets.

Küng could not remember his best work this week. And his opponent played in a real intoxication. In the end, the ambitious Schaffhauser could not restrain his tears of disappointment. Nevertheless, she can be proud of this achievement so far and if she continues like this, we will hear her soon

We will soon contact the match report.

Theorem 1 [19659008] The two players enter Court 1. Warm applause echoes in the stadium. Both have a big smile on their faces. Court 1 holds more than 11,000 seats. The stadium is half full. In a few minutes, it starts. Polite Swiatek first serves

And she begins nervously. Three unforced errors and Küng have their first break point, which they can not use. Then a lucky winner of Polin's ball game by net. After a backhand error Küngs the first match goes to the Polish. Now Küng's first service. The Polish woman beats two wonderful winners. Followed by a double mistake of the Swiss. Three breakballs for Swiatek. Two of them drive away Küng. In the third, an exciting basic duel is developing that ends the Pole with a perfect stop ball. She pauses at 2: 0.

Then there is a slight charge of the polish to zero. Küng has not arrived yet in this match. Swiatek does not seem to have many problems with Küng's services. Almost everyone shows up. Nevertheless, Küng gets his first match. 1: 3.

Küng gets better at it. She varies and especially can put pressure on her backhand. She fights for her first two breakball balls that she can not use. Also, because it serves Polin very well. Nevertheless, this game must give courage to the Swiss. Polin's gorgeous point for 0:15. She attracts Küng on the net with a skillful balloon and then pays tribute to the perfect praise.

Swiatek does what Küng did well in previous games: she searches and finds the lines. In breakball, another forehand strand of her just landed at the end, confirming the Hawk Eye. After, Küng abbreviated 2: 4.

In the next service game, Küng schnuppert Küng has another chance to score and leads 30:15. Subsequently, however, three return errors follow in series and Swiatek passes 5: 2. The Schaaffhauser must now start against defeat. This makes her sovereign. A game to scratch. Now, the chance for the Pole to purge the sentence at home.

Küng leads there 30:15. Then Riesenpech: A Polin winner thanks to a net scooter for 30:30. A murmur crosses the stadium. After a good point, she takes a breakball. After that, however, there are two ace of Polin, who have now put the ball. This is followed by the two best rallies of the previous game. Both go to Küng. A new chance of breaking up for her. And she catches it! It shortens to 4: 5.

Oje, what a false start. Two good returns from the Poles and a mistake by the Swiss. Three game balls for Swiatek. The first two may reject Küng, but not the third. Swiatek ends this sentence with a winner of the forehand. He goes 6: 4 to the Pole.

Junior Küng plays for Wimbledon title today

Five years after the triumph of Belinda Bencic, a young Swiss is back at Wimbledon in the final. Schaffhauser Leonie Küng, 17, won yesterday in a high-voltage match 6: 4, 6: 7 (6: 8), 6-3 against China's Xiyu Wang. Today, she plays at 2 pm against Polin Iga Swiatek for the victory of the tournament. Do not hesitate to join Léonie via live ticker. If you want to know more about the finalist, read our detailed and exclusive interview with her.

The starting position of this final is completely open. Küng and Swiatek have never played against each other. In the WTA rankings, the Polish (WTA 347) is slightly better ranked than the Swiss (WTA 417), but that does not say much. The two made a single move en route to the final. Swiatek beat Whitney Osuigwe in the first round, Swiss semi-finalist and semifinalist Simona Waltert in the second round and Xinyu Wang in the semifinal in fourth place. On the way to the final, Küng beat numbers 6, 9, 10 and 13 of the seedling list and established only the first set in the semifinal against the Chinese Xiyu Wang. If Küng plays aggressively, precisely and agonizingly as in previous rounds, then his opponent will have an extremely difficult time.

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