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LONDON: Having come from 4-1 down in the deciding set to win her Wimbledon quarter-final on Tuesday (Jul 11), many would have thought Marketa Vondrousova had benefited from some useful coaching insight in the locker room during a rain delay.
Elina Svitolina’s dream Wimbledon run continued as she upset top seed Iga Swiatek in a thrilling contest to reach the semi-finals. Svitolina, who returned to the tour in April after giving birth to her first child, won 7-5 6-7(5) 6-2 to reach her third Grand Slam semi-final – and second at Wimbledon. Ad Swiatek led by a break in the opening set, but lost 16 of the last 18 points to fall behind.
Three months after returning from maternity leave, Elina Svitolina reached the Wimbledon semifinals by beating top-ranked Iga Swiatek 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-2 Tuesday.
World number four Jessica Pegula crashed out of Wimbledon after an untimely suspension of play helped shift the momentum in her surprise quarter-final defeat to Marketa Vondrousova.
Top-seeded Iga Swiatek is out of Wimbledon. So, too, is American Jessica Pegula.
Unseeded Marketa Vondrousova beat fourth seed Jessica Pegula in a topsy-turvy match to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals on Tuesday. The Czech player, ranked 42 in the world, clawed her way back from 4-1 down in the deciding set to win 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. Pegula was quickly out of the blocks, breaking the former French Open finalist at her first opportunity but that proved a false dawn as she lost three service games in the first set, landing just 41 percent of her first serves. The American, 29, found more rhythm on her serve in the second set and cut her error count, surging into a 4-1 lead and sealing the set with her second break.
Even the world's best players are not immune to crippling nerves as Iga Swiatek discovered when her Wimbledon dreams were turned to dust in a 7-5 6-7(5) 6-2 quarter-final defeat by Ukrainian wildcard Elina Svitolina.
The Wimbledon locker rooms are getting quieter as the first of the singles quarter-finals arrive on Day 9. There's not even a rest day for defending men's champion Novak Djokovic as the Serbian comes back on court just a day after seeing off Hubert Hurkacz in four sets. Ad On the women's side, Iga Swiatek is up against the unseeded Elina Svitolina, who has made such an impressive comeback to Grand Slam tennis this year, having also reached the last eight at the recent French Open.