Although the women’s quarterfinals of the clay grand slam in Paris are full of surprising names, Barbora Krejčíková is perhaps most astonishing. And above all, flawless and confident performance.
Anyone who watches tennis carefully knows that the native of Ivančice has done an incredible amount of work in singles in the last six months. Gradually, she subdued all the goals she set herself, advancing to the top 100, then to the fifties, and now she is in the live rankings in the top thirty.
But what raises the eyebrows of many experts are the performances he shows in the Roland Garros complex. With the technically honed and flawless performances, she completely swept the American Sloane Stephens completely, and she is a former finalist of the clay grand slam.
“Barbora is an incredibly complex player. She surprised me, I didn’t realize her abilities at all before the tournament,” admitted Eurosport commentator and former tennis player Mats Wilander.
According to the former Swedish world number one, it is fully revealed in Paris that she was first a great debutist and now she sells her experience from there in singles.
“She can do everything, she has a great forehand, great hands, she goes to the net. The style of the game reminds me a bit of another Czech, Karolína Muchová, she is also the type of tennis player who can handle everything,” Wilander thinks.
Krejčíková’s performances in Paris have a growing tendency, in combination with the triumph in Strasbourg, she has already won nine matches in a row and most recently allowed the American Stephens only two games.
“She beat her incredibly easily. Now Coco Gauff is waiting for her, an even more aggressive player than Sloane and perhaps one of the best players of today, even at the age of 17. Nevertheless, I think .
He also paused over what Krejčíková admitted after advancing among the top eight players. She didn’t want to have a panic attack just before the match, she didn’t want to leave the locker room on the court and she had to deal with her condition with a psychologist.
“It’s all about confidence. With so many options to play and as much talent as she does, sometimes it takes a while to figure out in your head how to play which punch to choose. It’s not easy to put these puzzles together at all,” Swede.
They are similar to Mucha in this as well. “She appeared sometime three years ago and is gradually learning, step by step, how to get the most points and win matches with such a wide variety of strokes. It’s a natural development,” Wilander added.
Krejčíková’s quarterfinals against Cori Gauff are on the program from Wednesday 11 a.m. on Philip Chatrier’s central court. The daily Aktuálně.cz will follow it online.
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