Down-the-line.com will be performing a live online text broadcast: Tennis. Wibledon. Semi final. Svitolina – Vondrusova. Direct
Svitolina’s path to the second quarter-final at Wimbledon included victories over Venus Williams, Elise Mertens, Sofia Kenin and Victoria Azarenka. Having already knocked out three Grand Slam champions, she fought four-time TBS winner Iga Swiatek in the quarterfinals.
Losing 3:5 in the first set, Svitolina won the last four matches and snatched victory in the first set. In the second set, she again fell behind with a break, but managed to even the score. Then, in the ensuing tie-break, the Ukrainian took the lead with the score 4:1. However, this time Swiatek made a comeback and won the second set.
Svitolina was not hampered by this and she took a 5:1 lead in the third set and confidently won the victory with a score of 7–5, 6–7(5), 6–2 and for the second time in it. career reached the semi-finals of the London Major.
Vondrousova, meanwhile, knocked out Peyton Stearns, Veronica Kudermetova, Donna Vekic and Marie Buzkova to advance to the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the first time. She faced world No. 4 Jessica Pegula in the quarterfinals.
Losing in the first set with a score of 0:2, Vondrousova won the next four matches and took the lead herself with a score of 4:2. Pegula won the next two games and leveled the score, but the Czech then took two games and won the first set 6:4.
Pegula dictated the game in the second set and easily won 6:2. She took a 4-1 lead in the third set. Then Vondrushova won five games in a row and with them the match with the score 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.
Svitolina beat Vondrousova 3:2 in personal matches. The Czech won their previous encounter at the 2021 Olympics in straight sets.
Tennis. Wibledon. Semi final. Svitolina – Vondrousov. Direct
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