A first-time Wimbledon women’s singles champion will be crowned for the seventh year in a row as Jasmine Paolini battles Barbora Krejcikova on Saturday. Seventh seed Paolini had never before won a match at the All England Club but the Italian has become the first woman to reach the French Open and Wimbledon finals in the same year since Serena Williams in 2016. And Czech 31st seed Krejcikova – the 2021 French Open winner – had failed to go beyond the fourth round in SW19 until beating American Danielle Collins earlier this week.
Here, the PA news agency looks ahead to day 13 at Wimbledon. Another first-time champion incoming Our 2024 ladies' singles final is set ✨ #Wimbledon pic.twitter.
com/a2DjH0QIvg — Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 11, 2024 Since Serena Williams won her seventh Wimbledon title in 2016, there have been six first-time women’s singles winners in six Championships. A seventh is guaranteed on Saturday. Krejcikova is looking to become the fifth Czech player to lift the women’s title.
One of them was Jana Novotna, who famously cried on the shoulder of the Duchess of Kent after losing the 1993 final against Steffi Graf before finally lifting the trophy five years later. She took a teenage Krejcikova under her wing but died of cancer in 2017, aged only 49. Krejcikova said: “I’m thinking about Jana a lot.
I have so many beautiful memories and, when I step on the court here, I’m just fighting for every single ball because that’s what I think she wou.