LONDON — Barbora Krejcikova beat Jasmine Paolini in three sets to win the 2024 Wimbledon women’s title on Saturday. AFP Sport looks at five things to know about the Czech 28-year-old, who now has two Grand Slam titles. When Krejcikova is not playing tennis, she is building Lego models.
In her repertoire are the Milky Way, and Dobby, a character from the world of Harry Potter. “I have many of them actually. Yeah, I even received some from my team here,” she said.
She hopes one day to put together a Lego version of Wimbledon Centre Court. “If there’s one for me, I’ll do that,” said Krejcikova. Krejcikova sacked coach Ales Kartus, who helped her to the 2021 French Open title, in July last year.
Since then, she has not had a full-time coach but is working with Pavel Motl, who is two years younger, at 26. They went to the same school and occasionally trained together. Recalling how they first met, Motl told the iDNES.
cz news website: “Bara was 10 and she played in the village where I live. She was playing on court number three and beat our adult neighbour 6-0, 6-0.” Motl refuses to call himself a coach.
“I don’t know whether I will ever call myself a coach. For me, it’s a kind of a lifetime journey.” At Wimbledon, Krejcikova shuns life in official hotels, preferring instead to stay with a local family as she has done for the past decade.
Krejcikova has often spoken of the “relaxed atmosphere” at the house, where her late coach Jana Novotna used to s.