![]() ![]() Pliskova, who is coached by Sascha Bajin, says she is in a state of disbelief about the success she has had this week. "I felt like I had opportunities in the second set when she was - I don't remember exactly game, maybe second or third when she was serving and she didn't make first serve for four points. "I think her serves was a big challenge for me today," Sabalenka said. The match was close the whole way, but Pliskova gained an early edge in the second and third set and did not surrender the lead. Pliskova dominated the baseline against Sabalenka, winning 18 of 25 points that lasted more than four shots, and gradually took the air out of the Belarusian’s bubble. "I think I was too much, getting frustrated about that I didn't make the chances which I had on her serve because I had maybe, I don't know, seven breakpoints or maybe even more.” I thought especially the last game I could do much better. “It's not like I would do something really wrong. “I was super pissed about that because I thought I had so many chances in the first set,” Pliskova said. But she was able to recover and win her final ten service games of the match, never facing a break point in sets two and three. Pliskova failed to convert on eight break points in the opening set then dropped the set on a double-fault in the 12th game. Today on Centre Court, facing her toughest challenge of the fortnight, she needed mental resolve to get it done. The Czech had never been beyond the round of 16 at Wimbledon, and had not gone past the third round at a Slam since the start of 2020.īut over the last ten days in London she has found her menacing game, and made life extremely difficult on all comers. It has been an eye-opening tournament for Pliskova, who reaches her first Grand Slam final since the 2016 US Open, and her first Wimbledon final. Pliskova cracked 14 aces and hammered another 13 forehand winners to outgun Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus in a battle of bomb servers on Thursday, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, and the Czech will take her place in the Wimbledon final alongside World No.1 Ashleigh Barty. On Saturday she could become a Grand Slam champion. ![]() Karolina Pliskova has struggled to find her game since tennis restarted last August, but this week at Wimbledon she is living up to her promise as one of the WTA Tour’s premier power players. Karolina Pliskova produced pitch-perfect serving down the stretch to take out Aryna Sabalenka in Thursday's second Wimbledon semifinal. ![]()
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