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Vondroušová won not only Olympic silver in Tokyo, but also respect

Markéta Vondroušová in Tokyo amazed the whole world, not just tennis. The 22-year-old Czech tennis player, who was indiscriminately criticized after unconvincing performances before the very start of the Olympic tournament, responded with famous performances culminating in medals. In addition to gold, he was missing a step.

It seems like a fairy tale, but Vondroušová has had her life in recent weeks. Just before the Japanese 42nd Games, the then 388th player of the world, the British Emma Raducanuová, escorted the Czech Republic out of Wimbledon’s armpit in two sets of the second round at the WTA circuit.

An unexpected defeat from an only eighteen-year-old opponent untied the ice shower of criticism on social networks. The greatest “heroes” of the ravaged punters did not even hesitate to threaten Vondrouš with death. The insults that some individuals covered, especially Instagram Vondroušová, are completely unsuitable for publication.

Many slightly more constructive critics before the Olympics pointed to the fact that Markéta Vondroušová secured her nomination for Tokyo with the help of a protected ranking and traveled to Japan at the expense of the higher-ranking Karolína Muchová. The native from Sokolov flew to the Olympic tournament as a relatively easy target for the general public.

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Vondroušová returns the heavy ball to her Swiss opponent.

Junior number one

Although the twenty-two-year-old tennis player, Vondroušová reacted to the unreasonably rough reaction in her own way – on the court, with a cold head and grace, for which even the phenomenal Roger Federer would certainly not be ashamed.

By the way, the iconic Swiss never won his gold medal in singles at the Olympics, although he triumphed with his compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka in the doubles in Beijing (2008).

During his debut under five circles, Vondroušová’s play was decorated mainly with an almost unlimited physical pool, a frequent element of surprise and a properly dictating leftist.

For a girl who moved to Prague at the age of 15, a sleepy ride through the Olympic tournament is a huge success, which only confirms the potential that lies dormant in her. Vondroušová was convinced of her tennis skills at the junior age, when in 2015 she even warmed up on the throne itself for the world number one.

The biggest success of the Czech Republic on the WTA circuit so far is certainly the final participation in the Roland Garros in Paris in 2019, which pushed her to 14th place in the overall ranking. It was a great deed for a 20-year-old tennis player at the time.

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Backhand two-handed performed by a 22-year-old Czech.

Riding the Olympic tournament

The Czech native started properly in the first round, when as a course outsider she passed Kiki Bertensová from the Netherlands after a three hundred battle. She then confirmed the role of favortika in the second round, when Romanian Mihaele Buzarnescu allowed only three gems.

Probably a major milestone, however, came in the third round, when the Czech Republic expressed the greatest domestic hope and one of the faces of the Games, Naomi Osaka. According to most experts, the confrontation with the pet should have represented a clear end to the still underestimated Czech.

After all, the opponent was the second WTA tennis player, the best-earning athlete at the Tokyo Olympics and a marketing star lighting an Olympic torch. But she could not find a functional recipe for left-handed Vondrouš and after seventy minutes of play she was forced to surrender.

In the quarterfinals, Vondroušová came across the Spaniard Paula Badosa, who in the first set she pushed 6: 3 in exhausting heat. The Spaniard, thirteen places higher, was forced to retire the match after the first set. Exhausted by the physical heat, she collapsed.

The Sokolov native suddenly found herself in the semifinals. There she competed with the Ukrainian Jelena Svitolinová, the sixth deployed in the WTA rankings. Vondroušová cast a spell again in the tried and tested role of an outsider, and after two half-hour sets she headed uncompromisingly until Saturday’s final.

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The final with Bencicová hurt. Not just in terms of results.

In the untraditionally late final with the Swiss Belinda Bencicová, we witnessed a balanced first set, which was eventually dominated by the twelfth player of the WTA circuit, Bencicová.

The second set was dominated by the Czech Republic, which carried the well-being into the final act. Vondroušová flew into the third set victoriously, when she picked up the opponent’s serve in the first game, but immediately lost her own.

In the exchanges of the decisive set, there was mutual nervousness, hopes regularly shifted from one side to the other. But at 4: 3, Bencicová probably had a key moment. The Swiss forced a break for a small toe treatment. He probably partially threw Vondroušová, who failed to follow the pace of the match and did not even win the game.

Losing in the finals of the Olympic tournament certainly hurts, but given the circumstances in which Markéta Vondroušová flew to Tokyo, her new result is the embodiment of a sensation.

Unfortunately, showing respect for top athletes on social networks is a relatively scarce commodity today. Silver Vondroušová, who showed tremendous inner strength in Japan, confirmed that Czech women’s tennis is currently in excellent condition. And even if he wasn’t, not even the last WTA player deserves disgusting insults for his performances.

Tomorrow morning in the Czech time, the Czech tournament number one, the Czechs Kateřina Siniaková and Barbora Krejčíková, will challenge Belinda Bencicová and Viktorija Golubicová in the doubles final.

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