Sunday, July 10, 2022 – 1:28 PM
LONDON, July 10 / WAM / Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina’s victory in the English Open title (Wimbledon) may have seemed one of the big surprises in this edition of the tournament, but following up on Rybakina’s career with the game in the past few years confirms that her victory in one of the major titles was only A matter of time.
Rybakina, 23, ranked 23 in the world, crowned the 135th edition of Wimbledon with a precious 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Tunisian second-ranked Anas Jabeur and third-ranked in the tournament.
With this victory, Rybakina crowned her career full of struggle in the matches of this tournament, as well as successfully translating the story of her rise and progress in the world of tennis over the past few years, which, like the rest of the players and players, were affected by the Corona pandemic, as it confused the calendar of tournaments and the preparations of athletes in 2020 and 2021.
Rybakina started her career in 2020 with two fantastic months competing in the tournaments she played when she was just 20 years old.
Rybakina won the Hobart International Championship, becoming her second in her career, and reached the final in the Shenzhen, St. Petersburg and Dubai tournaments, with 19 wins once morest 4 defeats in the tournaments she fought at the beginning of that year, according to the WTA.
Then, the pandemic struck the stability of the tournaments and deprived players and players in various sports of proper training, in addition to the injury that Rybakina suffered following such a strong start in 2020, which kept her away from training for two and a half months.
In 2021, Rybakina made a remarkable progress in her level following the 2020 crisis, reaching the quarter-finals at the French Open (Roland Garros), then the semi-finals at Wimbledon, and won the bronze in the Tokyo Olympics.
Rybakina crowned her good level in 2022 Wimbledon title yesterday, which made her the first woman from Kazakhstan to win a grand slam title, and she is the youngest player to win the Wimbledon title since Czech Petra Kvitova won the title in 2011, and the fourth youngest grand slam champion among the players They are active so far in the world of tennis following Emma Radocano, 19, Iga Shwatek, 21, and Bianca Andreescu, 22.
Rybakina presented a very distinguished career over two weeks at Wimbledon and confirmed that she has the physical and mental fitness that qualifies her to be among the elite players in the world of the game.
Each of her first three matches in the tournament witnessed a tiebreaker, and her quarter-final match saw a decisive third group, and her match in the semi-final was not easy at all once morest Romanian 16th seed Simona Halep.
Rybakina passed all these tests until she reached the final once morest 27-year-old Tunisian Anas Jaber, to find herself in front of strong nominations for the Tunisian competition with a wonderful career in 2021 and 2022, but she also overcame these nervous pressures and dashed the dreams of the Tunisian star, who also fought her first final in tournaments. The Big Four “Grand Slam”.
Rybakina won yesterday, becoming the first defeat for Anas Jaber following 11 consecutive victories. Rybakina also became the first player since 2006 to win the Wimbledon title following falling by a set in the final.
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