Tennis-unstoppable Krejcikova goes into the top 16 at Wimbledon

LONDON (Reuters) – Barbora Krejcikova continued her extraordinary transformation from a two-player expert to a world-class single player when she reached the final 16 at Wimbledon on Saturday.

The Czech Republic, which came from scratch to win the French Open last month, overtook Latvian Anastasia Sevastova 7-6 (1) 3-6 7-5 in two and a half battles in the third court.

In Strasbourg, before the French Open, including the title race in Strasbourg, he has won 15 consecutive singles and also won the French Open.

Amazingly, this is the 25-year-old man’s first main content at Wimbledon, even though he already holds the women’s pair title at the All England Club since 2018 with his partner Katerina Siniakova, with whom he also won the French.

Prior to his arrival at Wimbledon, he had never played a Tour-level duel on the lawn when he had decided against the heating events, but he has looked completely at home on the surface.

Sevastova made him work hard, the Latvian served twice in the opening series and failed.

Krejcikova dominated the tiebreak, but Sevastova hit back to win the second set.

The decision’s first 11 games all went into service, but Krejcikova found a brilliant hand-return winner to get inside two victory points before Sevastova knocked the kickback to the bottom of the net.

Krejcikova could not take his first match point, but changed the second when the opponent lost the back kick.

He was joined in the last 16 by Czech Karolina Muchova, who defeated Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 7-5 6-3 to start a match with Spaniard Paula Badosa.

(Rapporteur: Martyn Herman; editor: Clare Fallon)