Who is Elena Rybakina, the queen of Wimbledon 2022

Kazakhstan is the twelfth nation in the roll of honor of the women’s singles of Wimbledon 2022. Elena Rybakina, who was born in Moscow and officially resides there even though she is a base for training in Slovakia, has defeated the number 2 in the world, the Tunisian Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. She is the youngest Wimbledon champion since 2011 (after Petra Kvitova) but she practically does not rejoice, as if she were bewildered by the magnitude of the situation and the goal achieved. Read about her too He signed his first victory against a Top 2 on the most important occasion of her career, at the end of the first Wimbledon final between two players in the first Slam final of her career. So after her titles in Bucharest 2019, a success that allowed her to enter the Top 100, and in Hobart 2020, she became the seventh Wimbledon champion to win despite not being among the top eight seeds. Jabeur, second representative of an African nation in the final at Wimbledon in singles after South African Kevin Anderson in 2018, easily wins the first set. Rybakina, the first Kazakh ever in the final in a Grand Slam, from the second set finds her serve, decisive for her who boasts the primacy of ace in 2022, and completely changes the horizon of the match. In the first set Jabeur takes advantage of the completeness of her vintage repertoire, her tennis since the Eighties, and systematically responds loudly and in the center. From the second, she gets confused, she loses control of the match. Her hope turns into frustration, and then into that disappointment that leads her to barely hold back her tears during the award ceremony. The comparison of styles is more evident in the premises than in the practice of the match. The first set flows all too smoothly for Jabeur, the most agée player to play the first final at Wimbledon since Nathalie Tauziat (1998). The Frenchwoman was also at Church Road this year as Harmony Tan’s coach, a revelation of the first week thanks to her success in the first round against Serena Williams.In the second, however, the game changes completely. 23-year-old Rybakina, the youngest Wimbledon finalist since 2015, when 21-year-old Garbiñe Muguruza arrived, put her game back together. Starting from the service that allowed her to get the point more than once out of two when she fielded the first in the six games she won to get to the final, Jabeur, who in the run up to the final obtained 46% of the points in response against the first and 47% of the breaks, from the second set you lose. The variety becomes confusing as Rybakina, with a more linear tennis, resumes the effectiveness seen in the rest of the tournament. And she fearlessly slips and stumbles to the moment she receives the ‘Venus Rosewater Dish’ from the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton.