Elena Rybakina won the 2022 Wimbledon tournament. The Russian with a Kazakh passport, beat the Tunisian Ons Jabeur in the final and comeback with a score of 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.
Rybakina is the first Kazakh to win Wimbledon.
On the centennial anniversary of the Center Court, coinciding with the sensational exclusion from Wimbledon of Russian and Belarusian tennis players, the 135th edition of the Championships was won by a tennis player born and raised in Moscow, a Kazakh city in 2018 only for fiscal convenience.
Elena Rybakina is the new queen of the All England Club: the 23-year-old Muscovite won a comeback, in the third set, on the Tunisian Ons Jabeur, n.3 of the seeding (36 62 62).
A mocking epilogue for the organizers of the London tournament who had banned players from Russia and Belarus from the tournament in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.
A controversial choice, which came under the relentless pressure of the British government of Boris Johnson, who, after his resignation in recent days, is witnessing his debacle.
Choice that had been heavily criticized,
But to make fun of the London ban was the same tournament that surprisingly awarded Rybakina, n.17 of the seeding, the youngest winner of the Championships since the triumph of Petra Kvitova in 2011, the first capable of recovering in the final a disadvantage set, from the hit of Amelie Mauresmo (2006).
The epilogue of the women's tournament was an unspectacular match, conditioned by the tension accused by both finalists, both making their debut on a stage of such importance.
Lost the first set due to too many mistakes, the Kazakh immediately finds that solidity in the baseline shots shown throughout the tournament.
She too is ready to take advantage of the self-satisfaction tendency of the Tunisian, equally gifted with talent and vanity.
The trend of the second and third set is identical:
Rybakina breaks Jabeur's serve at the opening of the fraction, and then defends the advantage in his batting rounds.
Her success interrupts Jabeur's streak of 11 straight wins, giving Kazakhstan its first historic victory at Wimbledon, to the delight of the local Federtennis president, who was unleashed in the stands to cheer on his tennis player.
At the end of the match it was the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, who awarded Rybakina.
Dressed in yellow, with the usual smile printed on her face, the wife of Prince William, godmother of the London club, did not shy away from her institutional duties of representation, as some commentators suggested on the eve, despite the general embarrassment :
the no to the participation of the Russians had also been justified with the desire not to expose a member of the Royal Family to a similar situation.
"I have never been so nervous, before and during the match. I am relieved that it is over because I have been under enormous pressure - Rybakina's words -. It was a very hard match, against a great opponent. I ran so much that for for a while I may not even train ".
