LONDON: Having come from 4-1 down in the deciding set to win her Wimbledon quarter-final on Tuesday (Jul 11), many would have thought Marketa Vondrousova had benefited from some useful coaching insight in the locker room during a rain delay. Instead, it was a pep talk down the phone from her husband as the
LONDON: Having come from 4-1 down in the deciding set to win her Wimbledon quarter-final on Tuesday , many would have thought Marketa Vondrousova had benefited from some useful coaching insight in the locker room during a rain delay.
"I actually didn't see my coach. I was alone in the waiting room. I chatted a bit with my husband. We talked on the phone. That was it. It was a quick break, so I didn't do much," she told a press conference. She will face Elina Svitolina in the last four. But despite the Ukrainian coming into the tournament as a wildcard having only recently returned to the Tour after giving birth, Vondrousova said it would be like facing another top-ranked player.
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