By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday, July 14 2023
After which there have been two. Ons Jabeur and Marketa Vondrousova are the final ladies standing from the 128 gamers that commenced the Wimbledon ladies’s singles important draw on Monday July 1st.
Be part of us for a by the numbers have a look at Saturday’s matchup, which highlights key stats and storylines forward of the third ladies’s singles Grand Slam ultimate of 2023.
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3-3 – The pair’s head-to-head file. Vondrousova has received their two 2023 conferences, on the Australian Open and at Indian Wells. They’ve met as soon as on grass earlier than, with Jabeur profitable 6-3, 7-6(4) within the first spherical at Eastbourne in 2021.
42 – The rating of Vondrousova, who’s the primary unseeded Ladies to succeed in the ultimate within the Open Period. Not since then unseeded Billie Jean King performed the ladies’s ultimate in 1963, has an unseeded girl contested a Wimbledon singles ultimate.
1 – Jabeur is bidding to turn into the primary Arab, African and Tunisian girl to ever win a Grand Slam singles title. The 28-year previous is making her twenty fifth Grand Slam important draw look, and her sixth at Wimbledon. She is into the ultimate for the second consecutive 12 months (misplaced to Rybakina in 2022).
2-10 – Vondrousova’s file on grass previous to 2023. The Czech was 1-4 at Wimbledon previous to this season at properly, recording a single win within the first spherical of 2021. She is 8-1 on grass in 2023 to date.
0-3 – Mixed file of the finalists in earlier Grand Slam finals. Vondrousova misplaced the 2019 Roland-Garros ultimate to Ashleigh Barty (profitable simply 4 video games), whereas Jabeur misplaced final 12 months’s Wimbledon ultimate to Rybakina and final 12 months’s US Open ultimate to Iga Swiatek.
4 – Variety of former Grand Slam finalists that Jabeur has defeated en path to the ultimate – Bianca Andreescu, Petra Kvitova, Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka. She is the fourth girl to defeat 4 former main champions in the identical draw within the Open Period.
4 – Vondrousova joins Jana Novotna, Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova because the fourth Czech to succeed in a Wimbledon ladies’s singles ultimate. If she is profitable on Saturday, she’ll be a part of Novotna and Kvitova because the third Czech ladies’s singles champion at Wimbledon.
Observe: Martina Navratilova, who received 9 singles titles at Wimbledon, defected to the USA and thus is just not listed as a Czech champion.
3 – Jabeur has rallied from a set down thrice to win at Wimbledon this 12 months. She owns a lifetime file of 7-2 in matches through which she has dropped the primary set at Wimbledon. Moreover, Jabeur has received from a set down on the Grand Slams 13 instances for the reason that begin of 2018, which is greater than every other WTA participant in that point span, in response to ESPN..
17-5 – Jabeur’s lifetime file at Wimbledon. The Tunisian is 33-11 lifetime on the floor. (Vondrousova is 7-4 at Wimbledon and 10-11 general).
59 – The winner of Saturday’s tussle will turn into the 59th ladies’s singles Grand Slam champion.
7 – Variety of WTA gamers that misplaced their first three Grand Slam finals within the Open Period – Helena Sukova (4), Kim Clijsters (4), Chris Evert (3), Mary Joe Fernandez (3), Simona Halep (3), Dinara Safina (3), Wendy Turnbull (3).
Jabeur, 0-2 in Slam finals, is hoping to remain off this illustrious record.
5 – If Vondrousova wins she would turn into the primary ladies’s singles champion at Wimbledon to earn victories over 5 completely different seeded gamers since fellow Czech Petra Kvitova in 2011.
4-7 – Jabeur’s lifetime file in finals (Vondrousova is 1-4 in finals).
3 – Jabeur will transfer to No.3 within the rankings if she wins the title, and keep at No.6 if not; Vondrousova will make her Prime 10 debut if she wins the title, at No.1, or rise to No.16 if not.
