Handicapped by injuries in recent months, Marketa Vondrousova has won the Berlin tournament this Sunday. A good omen before Wimbledon that the Czech won in 2023.
Marketa Vondrousova is back in business. This Sunday, the Czech, 164th world player, won the WTA 500 Berlin tournament in Germany, on grass, after its victory, in the final, against the Chinese Xinyu Wang, 49th world player and the resulting qualifications, in three rounds (7-6 (10), 4-6, 6-2) and 2:18.
On the short Steffi Graf de Grunewald, in the first round, the Czech lost its service at 3-3. The last three games were then a succession of breaks and the two players logically played a tie-break. This decisive game was particularly tight. If the Chinese led 6-2 before then obtaining six set balls, the Czech ended up having the last word on its third set ball (7-6 (10)). In the second round, the two players each lost their turn, their entrance service. At 4-5, Marketa Vondrousova (25) was, again, Breakée.
Vondrousova made Keys and Sabalenka fall this week
This allowed Xinyu Wang to equalize a round everywhere (6-4). Finally, during the third and last round, the 49th world player was the only one to have a breaker, from the start and then at 1-3. The 164th world player then quietly concluded on a white game (6-2). Marketa Vondrousova, who was playing his seventh final, won his third title. This is his first trophy since the 2023 edition of Wimbledon. This victory arrives at the best of moments, just a week before the start of the London Grand School (June 30 – July 13).
In recent times, the Czech has clearly been spared from injuries. In the past twelve months, Marketa Vondrouso was suffering from his left shoulder, operated in the summer of 2024. During this week in Berlin lands, the former world, which will jump in the classification and find the 73rd position in the hierarchy, had offered the SCALP of Madison Keys then that of Aryna Sabalenka, world n ° 1.
