Marketa Vondrousova plans to have fun with beer and a brand new tattoo after changing into one of the unlikely Wimbledon champions by beating Ons Jabeur within the ultimate on Saturday.
The Prague-based, 24-year-old Czech gained 6-4 6-4 towards the overwhelming crowd favorite to turn out to be the primary unseeded participant to win the Wimbledon girls’s title.
After punching away a volley on her second match level the left-hander fell to the Centre Court grass. She wore an expression of disbelief after shaking fingers along with her opponent.
Asked on court docket how she would have fun her victory, a smiling Vondrousova stated: “I think I’m going to have some beer maybe. It was an exhausting two weeks, and I was getting myself together the last few days. I was so nervous before this game.”
Fresh #Wimbledon ink pending…
Marketa Vondrousova’s coach seems like he could remorse making that guess 😅 pic.twitter.com/9awYGHzWIX
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 15, 2023
Vondrousova, whose husband Stepan Simek arrived from Prague in time for the ultimate, having been on cat-sitting responsibility again house, has a group of tattoos on her arms.
She was pondering of getting one other one to have fun a memorable fortnight in London and stated her coach Jan Hernych could be getting inked too after a pre-match pledge.
“I don’t know but I made a bet with my coach. He said if I win a Grand Slam he’s going to get one also. So I think we’re going to go tomorrow,” she stated.
Vondrousova grew to become the primary girl to achieve two Grand Slam finals as a non seed, having misplaced the French Open ultimate to Ash Barty in 2019 when she was 19.
Since then it has been an up-and-down trip and her solely profession title, previous to Wimbledon, was again in 2017.
She did win a silver medal on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 however with just one match win at Wimbledon in 4 earlier visits, her expectations have been hardly sky excessive a fortnight in the past.
This time final 12 months she was in London merely as a vacationer after having wrist surgical procedure.
But after knocking out 4 seeds to achieve the ultimate after which out-playing sixth seed Jabeur to turn out to be the fourth Czech-born girl to win the title within the skilled period, the celebrations shall be well-deserved.
And the timing might hardly have been higher.
“It’s amazing, tomorrow is our first anniversary of our wedding. It’s amazing to have you guys being here with me,” she stated wanting as much as Simek and relations in her field.
“I have enjoyed the two weeks so much. It was exhausting but I am so grateful and proud of myself.”
