LONDON (AP) — Jasmine Paolini reached her second consecutive Grand Slam final with a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10-8) victory over unseeded Donna Vekic at Wimbledon on Thursday in a rollicking match that lasted 2 hours, 51 minutes, making it the tournament's lon
LONDON — Jasmine Paolini reached her second consecutive Grand Slam final with a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 victory over unseeded Donna Vekic at Wimbledon on Thursday in a rollicking match that lasted 2 hours, 51 minutes, making it the tournament's longest women's semifinal on record.As well will many who were present at Centre Court.
Paolini is the first woman to get to the title matches at the French Open and Wimbledon in the same season since Serena Williams in 2016.On Saturday, she will face No. 4 Elena Rybakina or No. 31 Barbora Krejcikova. They’ve both been a major champ already: Rybakina won Wimbledon in 2022; Krejcikova won the French Open in 2021.
Paolini's win was anything but easy for either woman. Vekic often seemed to be in distress, crying between points or while sitting in her changeover chair late in the third set. She iced her her right forearm between games or looked up at her guest box with a flushed face.She never made it past the second round at any major tournament — losing in the first or second round at 16 appearances in a row — until she got to the fourth round at the Australian Open in January.
“She was hitting winners everywhere. I was a little bit struggling at the beginning," Paolini said. “But I was just repeating to myself to fight every ball.”
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