Unseeded Marketa Vondrousova completed an improbable run through the All England Club winning her first Grand Slam championship beating Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday.
Vondrousova, who came into the tournament ranked No. 42 in the world, fell to the grass court in tears after winning match point. She will surge into the Top 10 when the new WTA rankings are released on Monday after beating Jabeur for the third time this year.
Vondrousova, a 24-year-old from the Czech Republic, lost in the 2019 French Open final to Ashleigh Barty and was the first unseeded finalist at Wimbledon since 1963 when Billie Jean King accomplished the feat. It is the first Wimbledon tournament where she advanced past the second round, and she is the first unseeded Wimbledon women’s champion in the Open Era.
With the retractable roof closed to start the match, Jabeur broke Vondrousova in the second game, and then both players traded breaking each other’s serve, and when the match was square at four, Jabeur started making mistakes.
She won just two points the rest of the set, as Vondrousova took control taking the last four games to close out the set, again winning set point on an unforced error by Jabeur.
Jabeur, who had 31 unforced errors, was up 3-1 in the second set and was again broken in the ninth game, giving Vondrousova a chance to serve for the match.
Jabeur, the 28-year-old, No. 6 seed from Tunisia who is the only woman Arab woman or North African woman to reach a Grand Slam singles final, fell to 0-3 in Grand Slam finals after falling short at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open last year.
