Wimbledon Women’s Final: Batty makes Gulagong the second Australian to win

Shirley Barty She burst into tears when she grabbed the Venus rose water tray and told an ecstatic person Central court She hopes she “makes Yvonne proud.”

Fifty years ago, the elegant Yvonne Goolagong was the first Australian woman to win Wimbledon Now, the 25-year-old is deeply proud of her indigenous heritage and imitates her indigenous hero and mentor. And in the same elegant style.

What a gorgeous seesaw game Barty and Carolina Pliskova After playing, the short 5-foot-5 Australian came forward against the 6-foot-1 Czech powerful batsman and finally won 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, but the score was almost unexplainable. How difficult this game turned out to be.

With the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in the Royal Box and both players are participating in their first Wimbledon final, tension will play a role.

Barty later said that she had barely slept the night before-but the game started with Barty’s master class. Even in her craziest dream, she couldn’t imagine getting that kind of rapid start, without losing a point in the first three games, which was a feat that had never been achieved in the Wimbledon women’s final because this record has always been Keep it-continue back to 1977.

The game lasted for 10 minutes. The 29-year-old Pliskova won her first point with a score of 15-30 in the fourth game, which aroused enthusiastic cheers from the audience, but a minute later she was 4-0. Behind, it looks like an embarrassing mismatch. Batty is very relaxed and can choose between forehand and backhand winners at will. Her backhand is a beautiful thing, and the backbone of Pliskova’s game, she Worried about the first serve, but caught fire.

When Pliskova broke Batty’s serve to win her first game, the first set seemed irretrievable, and the audience worried that this might be the shortest women’s final in SW19 history. But sometimes advancing so fast has its own dangers, Batty started to play safely, and when she did, Pliskova caught her way back into the game. After 5-1, Pliskova broke Batty’s serve again and kept it. At 3-5, the Czechs are now only one step away from upgrading. Now Batty is under pressure. But she stood with an amazing cross-court forehand champion and insisted on love. Batty 6-3 in the first set.

The crowd was temporarily distracted by Tom Cruise’s presence-interestingly he was not sitting in the royal box-and now began to support Pliskova loudly, especially because they wanted a game.

Now here comes a class and an excellent set of tennis. Batty moved on and mixed her topspin and slices together, which had a devastating effect, but Pliskova knocked her back with a pile driver forehand and took a breath from the stands. This is Their power-her first serve began to find its tracks.

At 5-5, Batty broke Pliskova to lead 6-5 and served the game, but Pliskova equalized her directly with 6-6. The Czechs are now playing freely and indulgently, while Batty looks untidy. The Czech led 7-4, and Batty surrendered due to a nervous double error.