“Emma is a great player, she’s here at home, so I’m waiting for a hard match. It can turn out in any way, but I’m glad I’m back and I can play these matches again,” Vondroušová looked forward to CTK, but Wednesday evening she didn’t reach her in an ideal mood. After all, as almost all Czech representatives in the single…
Most of the match was in a deep defensive, in the first set it was harder to cope with the setting sunshine and bought mistakes. She showed a total of 28 in eighty minutes.
“She played really well. It seemed to me that I had to play a very good ball to win the exchange at all. I think it gave me two easy points. When she pushed me, it was hard to get out of it. It was an extreme performance from her, or I don’t know if she plays all the time.
The vast majority of viewers were cheering at the center, but the environment was not hostile to the Czech tennis player. “It’s not so crazy here, dealing with it in Paris or New York is a lot heavier. But Emma is a home heroine,” said Vondroušová, who lost to the British on Wimbledon four years ago, when Raducanová received a wild card from the organizers and sensationally went into the eight -final.
Two months later, she caused an even bigger fuss in New York: as a qualifier she won the singles in the US Open singles. At just eighteen!
But the shining future did not come, Raducanová stagnated, the coaches changed as underwear, and there was no giant impact of popularity. Vondroušová overwhelmed the British opponent twice, last year in Abu Dhabi, but she couldn’t cope with her again.
“I think I was playing really well,” the winner was right, who was able to defend herself perfectly and remained fantastically focused all the time. “I knew I had to be aggressive because Markéta could punish it,” Raducan said.
And probably after her win, Sabalenko was relieved that she would not have to be an unpleasant Czech rival on Friday. She has coped with the British in the only duel. “We’ll see what my game will be enough against the Aryna,” the “divine Emma” smiled.
