On July 1, 2021, Marketa Vondrousova lost her second-round match at Wimbledon to Emma Raducanu. It was a case of two fairytales colliding, not that either competitor could have imagined what was to follow. Vondrousova did not much like grass and Raducanu was a teenager making her debut at a grand-slam tournament.
“She was a wild card here and she was playing amazing,” the new Wimbledon champion said. “I was, like: ‘It’s not possible that she’s not going to be at the top soon’ and then she won the US Open.
“For me, it was still my best result here – the second round. I told myself before the tournament, ‘Just give it a shot, just try to win a couple of matches’ and now
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