Tennis
Great! Muchova and Vondrousova improve their career highs
The tournament in Cincinnati was quite successful for the Czech tennis players. Both Markéta Vondroušová and Karolína Muchová will improve their positions in the WTA rankings, both of them will be among the ten best tennis players in the world.
The tournament in Cincinnati was quite successful for the Czech tennis players. Both Markéta Vondroušová and Karolína Muchová will improve their positions in the WTA rankings, both of them will be among the ten best tennis players in the world.
Markéta Vondroušová shone in July with her triumph at Wimbledon. The native of Sokolov defeated Kudermetova, Pegula and Svitolina. In the final, she found a recipe for Jabeur, whom she defeated after sets 6:4 and 6:4.
Thanks to her first Grand Slam title, Vondrousova moved up to the tenth place in the WTA rankings. She improved her previous career high.
In Cincinnati, the twenty-four-year-old tennis player made it to the quarterfinals. There she lost to Swiatek after 6:7 and 1:6 sets. This will take her to ninth place with 3,401 points.
Karolína Muchová is also having a very successful season. It is worth mentioning the French Open final, in which she lost to Swiatek after 2:6, 7:5 and 4:6. It was the second Grand Slam final she lost.
But she was also successful in Indian Wells, where she scored very valuable scalps against Azarenka and the aforementioned Vondrousova. She was not able to beat Rybakina in the quarterfinals. The Kazakhstan representative won after sets 7:6, 2:6 and 6:4.
In Cincinnati, the native of Olomouc had a very difficult draw right from the opening round. She beat Haddad Maiova, Marticova and Sakkari. The winner always had to be decided in the third set.
Then in the quarter-finals, she beat Bouzkova in a duel of compatriots, but she had to stop the match after twelve minutes of play. In the semi-final she surprisingly beat Sabalenka, the world number two.
With this, she moves up to tenth place in the WTA rankings with 2995 points. If she had beaten the host Gauff in the final, she would have had 315 more points.
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