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Wimbledon 2023 Women’s Final; Marketa Vondrousova beats Ons Jabeur

Context:

Marketa Vondrousova becomes Wimbledon champion, the first unseeded player to do so in the Open Era. She beats last year’s runner-up Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 in the final. Marketa Vonddrousova is the first unseeded player to do so in the Open Era.

What’s in News?

Marketa Vondrousova becomes the Wimbledon championship 2023 by beating last year’s runner-up Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 in the finals. Jabeur held the break of serve lead twice in the opening set of the women’s singles final or Centre Court before the unseeded Marketa Vondrousova bounced back to win 16 of the last 18 points, and four straight games, to grab the opening set 6-4. She set three times in the first set. In 2023, Wimbledon will award an all-time high of 44.7 million pounds.

About Marketa Vondrousova:

  • Marketa Vondrousova was born on June 28, 1999. Currently, she is 24 years old.
  • She hails from the Czech Republic and is a Czech.
  • Marketa was born in Sokolov, a small town located in the Karvolvy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. Her parents are David Vondrousova and Jindriska Vondrousova.
  • She married her longtime partner Stepan Simek on July 16, 2022. The couple got engaged after Tokyo Olympics 2021.

Sports Career:

Marketa Vondrousova is a Czech Tennis player. She has a career-high world No. 14 ranking, as per the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA). She created female tennis history in 2023 by becoming the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon Singles Championship.

She became the first teen moajor finalist in nearly 10 years when she advanced to the 2019 French Open Final.

Marketa showed her talent at an early age, becoming the former junior world No. 1 and winning two major double championships. Her meteoric rise continued on the WTA tour when at the age of 17 she made an excellent debut by winning the 2017 Ladies Open Biel Bienne. Before she turned 18, this victory, which she won in just her second career WTA Tour singles match, catapulted her into the top 100 of the WTA rankings.                                                                                                                    Find More Sports News Here

 

 

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