Jabeur-Vondrousova, an unprecedented finalist who will crown a new Grand Slam champion

Ons Jabeur (6th in the WTA rankings) or Marketa Vondrousova (42): One of them will be crowned the 23rd Grand Slam champion of the decade. Tomorrow at Wimbledon Central, one of them will bring glory with the first title Main from his career.

And the Tunisian will have the opportunity to avenge herself after losing the final of the tournament last year at the hands of Elena Rybakina. For her part, the Czech, who did not pass more than the second round of the tournament, will also contest her first major tournament and play the second final in her career after falling at Roland Garros 2019 to retired Ashleigh Barty.

Jabbour had a way with his rivals from a very high hierarchy to arrive at a definition All of England. After defeating Magdalena Frech and Zhuoxuan Bai in her first two rounds, she had to battle four Grand Slam champions in the later rounds to finally settle for the decider. In the third round it was his turn Bianca AndreescuUS Open champion 2019. In the round of 16 and in the quarter-finals, it was the turn to face two London Cup winners: Petra Kvitova (won in 2011 and 2014) and Elena RybakinaLondon contest champion who managed to take revenge. Finally, before that Arina SabalenkaThis year’s Australian Open champion has sealed her ticket to the final day of the competition.

Vondrousova’s path was different in terms of her competitors’ category, perhaps more similar to her current ranking. Left on the way to Peyton Stearns In the first round wins against higher-ranked players advance to the semi-finals. Veronka Kudrmitova (xii), in the second, Donna Vekic (xxi) in third place, Marie Bouzkova (33), in the eighth, f Jessica Pegula (iv), in the chambers. Finally in the semifinals, he eliminated the 2019 semifinalists, Elena SvitolinaWithout a doubt.

The truth is that although the Tunisian seemed to many in the previous match to be the favorite to win the first Wimbledon Championship for the African continent in history, In precedents there is equality More recently, it was the Czechs who maintained the majority of meetings with each other.

They played six times, with three wins for each team. This will be the second time they have met in a Grand Slam and the third match against each other this year. They first met in qualifying in Prague eight years ago, with Vondrousova winning 6-3, 3-0 and her opponent withdrawing due to injury. Only this year he managed to win the European Championship again in the second round of the Australian Open and in the second round of Indian Wells. Jaber, for his part, defeated him at Sunrise in 2016, Eastbourne in 2021 and Stuttgart last year.

The Grand Final will begin at 10 AM (Argentina time) on ESPN2 and Star+.