Wimbledon Women's Final 2023 Highlights: Marketa Vondrousova wins maiden Grand Slam title, beats Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4

The champions and the title!

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WHAT A PICTURE!

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Marketa Vondrousova:

“I don’t know what is happening, it is an amazing feeling. Ons congratulations, you are such an inspiration for us. I hope you win some day, you are an amazing person. After everything I have been through it is amazing I can stand here and hold this. Tennis is crazy! The comebacks aren’t easy you don’t know what to expect, I was hoping I could get back to this level and now this is happening. Thank you to my box, my little sister she is crying! I mean it is amazing, tomorrow is our first wedding anniversary. It’s great to have you guys here, I enjoyed the two weeks so much. I am so grateful and proud of myself. I made a bet with my coach, if I won a grand slam he was going to get a tattoo too – I think we are going to go tomorrow! I think I am going to have some beer, it was an exhausting few weeks. Thank you guys for the support.”

“It’s going to be a tough day today but I am not going to give up. We’re going to make it one day, I promise you.”

— Losing finalist Ons Jabeur

Marketa Vondrousova is the first unseeded women’s singles player to win Wimbledon title.

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Vondrousova wins 2023 WIMBLEDON title, winning 6-4, 6-4 against Jabeur

Final game, Vondrousova 5-4 up and serving:

15-0 for Vondrousova. 30-0 for Vondrousova. 40-0 for Vondrousova.

And then, a double fault. Suspense. Jabeur is 15-40.

But Vondrousova wins it after an exchange of a few shots as she hits a cross court winner.

Vondrousova 6-4, 5-4 Jabeur*

Vondrousova breaks. 15-30 down, Jabeur charges down the net and levels the game with a cross court winner. Gives away the advantage by going long and then Vondrousova seals the game by forcing Jabeur into hitting the nets.

Vondrousova* 6-4, 4-4 Jabeur

Vondrousova also holds onto her serve to level the set 4-4. She races to 40-15 and then on her first serve the return is long from Jabeur. It’s getting tensed.

Vondrousova 6-4, 3-4 Jabeur*

Jabeur holds onto her serve. At 30-30, she comes up with a good first serve to go up 4-30 before a cross court winner makes it 4-3 in her favour.

Vondrousova* 6-4, 3-3 Jabeur

At 30-0 up on her serve, Vondrousova commits a double fault to allow Jabeur to creep back in. Then a drop shot as a result of nets allows Jabeur to to play a forehand down the line that is returned by Vondrousova but the following shot is a cross court volley that helps the Tunisian make it 30-all. Vondrousova wins the next two points to seal the game.

Vondrousova 6-4, 2-3 Jabeur*

After Vondrousova takes 30-0 lead, Jabeur comes up with a brilliant backhand down the line. Vondrousova’s return hits the net next and it’s 30-all. However, Vondrousova gets another service break. First, she gets to 40-30 and then after an exchange of a few shots Jabeur errs by going long.

Vondrousova* 6-4, 1-3 Jabeur

Jabeur holds her serve to make it 2-1.

In the next game, Vondrousova goes up 15-0 after a cross court return from Jabeur is long. She lets go of a drop shot next thinking it’s long but it’s not and scores are level at 15-15. At 30-15, Jabeur produces a good drop shot but Vondrousova covers the ground well for a cross court winner and 30-30 scoreline. Vondrousova then hits long and Jabeur gets break point. She goes long again and Jabeur has a 3-1 lead in the second set.

Vondrousova* 6-4, 1-1 Jabeur

Is the comeback on? Jabeur was 40-0 down but then made it 40-30 before a cross court winner made it deuce. She also had the advantage but lost it with a hit in the net. Won back the advantage with another cross court winner and then picked up a drop shot brilliantly before Vondrousova failed in her return.

Vondrousova 6-4, 1-0 Jabeur*

It’s the same start for Jabeur. In fact, she has lost the last five games. But remember she lost the first set against Rybakina and Sabalenka and came back to win the quarters and semis.

Vondrousova wins 1st set 6-4 Jabeur

Vondrousova serving for the set.

At 15-0, Vondrousova makes a nice second serve, forcing Jabeur to find the net. Another second serve goes long on cross court return. One more return goes in the net and Vondrousova wins the set.

Vondrousova 5-4 Jabeur

Jabeur serves. A brilliant cross-court shot allows Jabeur to make it 15-15 but hits the net next and hits a lob wide to give Vondrousova the break point. Vondrousova seals the game after some nice cross courts return as Jabeur finds the net again.

Vondrousova 4-4 Jabeur

Vondrousova serves. At 15-15, Jabeur goes long on return to give Vondrousova the lead. The next return on a second serve is also long followed by a shot in the net by Jabeur. Vondrousova makes it 4-4.

Vondrousova 3-4 Jabeur

Vondrousova makes yet another comeback by breaking Jabeur’s serve. Vondrousova took 30-0 lead then played a brilliant forehand to go 40-0 up. Jabeur tried a cross-court shot to make a comeback but Vondrousova has it covered with a brilliant return and break of serve.

Vondrousova 2-4 Jabeur

Jabeur is back in charge. She holds onto her serve and then on Vondrousova’s serve goes 40-0 up before the Czech Republican goes long down the line and hands over Jabeur a big lead.

Vondrousova 2-2 Jabeur

Now the Czech Republican holds onto her serve to level the set 2-2. Jabeur in fact had advantage after the game reached deuce but she squandered it twice. Later Vondrousova got advantage after picking up a drop shot and playing a smash shot down the line. She converted the advantage with an error from Jabeur.

Vondrousova 1-2 Jabeur

This time Jabeur fails to hold serve as Vondrousova makes an immediate comeback. Jabeur took a 40-15 lead but an unforced error allowed Vondrousova to creep back. Then a cross-court forehand from Vondrousova led to deuce. She got an advantage after Jabeur hit into the nets. But the Tunisian manages to go back to deuce, gets the advantage and fails to convert.

Vondrousova gets a second break point after the game returns to deuce and she finally converts.

Vondrousova 0-2 Jabeur

Jabeur breaks early on as Vondrousova goes down in the first two games. At 30-40, Jabeur managed a backhand that Czech couldn’t tackle.

Vondrousova 0-1 Jabeur

The Tunisian holds onto her serve despite a jittery-looking start. The scores went to 30-30. Jabeur takes the game with a serve down the middle.

The roof at the Centre Court is shut.

Players are onto the court. The toss is done amid loud applause and Jabeur would be serving first.

This is the first Wimbledon final for Vondrousova.

What is at stake?

Apart from the title, the winner will get 2000 ranking points and £2,350,000 prize money.

Both Jabeur and Vondrousova are guaranteed of 1300 ranking points and £1,175,000 prize money.

“I think a final is a final. You’re playing someone, Grand Slam champion or not. I think it’s going to be very difficult. It can happen for both. Whoever could handle more emotions, whoever could be more ready on the court, will definitely win that match. I want to make my path worth it, winning against all these Grand Slam champions to be in the final. Yeah, I’m going full in, and hopefully this time it will work.”

— Jabeur on final.

Will Jabeur be third time lucky?

Ons Jabeur has already played two finals before the upcoming match. She lost in the 2022 Wimbledon final to Elena Rybakina and then lost in the 2022 US Open final Iga Swiatek. 

Remember only six female players have lost all three of their first Grand Slam finals.

Jabeur vs Vondrousova head-to-head

In six matches so far, both players have won three games each. But the interesting fact is that the two wins for Vondrousova has come in the last two matches in 2023. She won at the Indian Wells and Australian Open.

Ons Jabeur’s road to final:

— defeated Magdalena Frech 6-3, 6-3

— defeated Zhuoxuan Bai 6-1, 6-1

— defeated Bianca Andreescu 3-6, 6-3, 6-4

— defeated Petra Kvitova 6-0, 6-3

— defeated Elena Rybakina 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-1

— defeated Aryna Sabalenka 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-3

Marketa Vondrousova’s road to final:

— defeated Peyton Stearns 6-2, 7-5

— defeated Veronica Kudermetova 6-3, 6-3

— defeated Donna Vekic 6-1, 7-5

— defeated Marie Bouzkova 2-6, 6-4, 6-3

— defeated Jessica Pegula 4-6, 6-2, 6-4

— defeated Elina Svitolina 6-3, 6-3

Ons Jabeur hopes it will be third time lucky when she looks to become the first African or Arab woman to win a Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon on Saturday. The Tunisian takes on Marketa Vondrousova hoping to improve on her two final appearances last year without success: versus Elena Rybakina at the All England Club and Iga Swiatek at the US Open.

Unlike her two final losses at the majors, this time Jabeur will start as the favourite

Preview: Jabeur hopes to be third time lucky in final against Vondrousova