Wimbledon 2023, today’s games

The precedents between Jabeur and Sabalenka

Tunisian Ons Jabeur, seed no. 6, is chasing the second final in a row after that of 2022 but will have to deal with the big favorite for the final victory, the n. 2 of the world Aryna Sabalenka, winner this year at the Australian Open. The two have already challenged each other at Wimbledon: it happened in the 2021 quarterfinals when the Belarusian won 6-4, 6-3. That was the second of Sabalenka’s 3 victories with her rival. The first had arrived a few months earlier (6-2, 6-4) in the round of 16 in Abu Dhabi, the third instead he collected in the last duel, which took place in the group stage of the WTA Finals 2022: that day was a battle with difficult success for 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 7-5. And there was also a battle in Jabeur’s only victory, in the first match, at Roland Garros 2020, when the Tunisian won 7-6 (9/7), 2-6, 6-3.

On the Centrale we start with Svitolina-Vondrousova

Between Elina Svitolina and the first Grand Slam final in his career at the age of 28 is the obstacle Marketa Vondrousova. The 24-year-old Czech, who precedes the Ukrainian by 34 places in the WTA rankings (42 against 76) has already experienced the thrill of competing for a title in one of the Majors, the 2019 Roland Garros final lost against the Australian Ashleigh Barty . In reality, however, Ms. Monfils is much more used to matches like this, having just returned from maternity leave after giving birth to her daughter Skai on 15 October: in her career she has won 17 titles (against only one of her opponent) and a whopping 203 more games. The precedents between the two had a strange trend: Svitolina won the first 3, between 2018 and 2019 (one of which thanks to the withdrawal of the opponent down 3-2 in the third, ed), while in the last 2 it made up for resounding defeats: 6-3, 6-0 in the quarterfinals of Rome 2020 and 6-3, 6-1 at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. A clear sign that the Czech has the weapons to fill the experience gap that divides her from her rival .