Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic) is the big champion of Wimbledon 2024. The former world’s number 2, who has been struggling with injuries since the start of the season and has not been at her best, claimed her second Grand Slam title after 2-1 (6:2, 2:6, 6:4) win over Jasmine Paolini (Italy) for nearly two hours of play on Center Court at the British Open tennis tournament.
Thus, Barbora Krejcikova became the fourth Czech woman to win the Wimbledon singles title after Petra Kvitova, Marketa Vondrousova and her former coach Jana Novotna. An interesting fact is that the 28-year-old tennis player had already triumphed twice with the doubles trophy, winning it in 2018 and 2022. Barbora Krejcikova has established herself primarily as a doubles specialist over the years and has seven Grand Slam doubles titles in her career.
However, she was in a difficult period herself and was on a five-game losing streak before the start of the grass-court season due to physical problems that forced her to miss more than two months between February and April. Here, Barbora Krejcikova found herself at the most important moment and after eliminating the main favorite for the title Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) in the semi-finals, she also defeated Jasmine Paolini in the final.
For Jasmine Paolini it is her second straight Grand Slam final loss. The world No 7 already suffered that disappointment about a month ago after losing to Iga Swiatek in the Roland Garros final, and now she had to meet the same fate at Wimbledon. However, her performance on grass is to be commended as she had not overcame the first round of the British Open so far. From the new week, she will break into the top 5 of the world ranking, occupying the fifth place.
