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Krejcikova - Pavlyuchenkova: Start of the match at 3:00 p.m.
3.15 p.m .
: Last Russian to win Roland?
Somebody ?
Nobody ?
Yes good answer for the gentleman back there, it's Maria Sharapova, of course.
In 2014 (she won in 2012 too).
3.13 p.m
.:
Another double and that makes Pavlyuchenkova break.
3.11 p.m
.: A complicated start for the Czech, put under pressure by her opponent and surely a little tense with a double fault there.
0-40.
3:10
p.m .
:
GO GO.
Krejcikova at the service.
3:08 p.m .
: A
useful reminder >> The first to joke about the number of scrabble points in this final has lost.
3:06 p.m
.: Ah and know that the winner of the day will receive her trophy from the hands of Martina Navratilova, the American winner here in 1982 and 1984 (and finalist in 1975, 1985, 1986 and 1987).
3:03 p.m .
: Come on, the two players enter the court.
It'll go away in a few minutes, after a short warm-up.
2:59 pm
: A little story about Krejcikova now, which I read yesterday when I was preparing a paper that ultimately never saw the light of day. She was the protégé of Jana Novotna, the former great champion who died in 2017. They are from the same city, Brno. One day, when she was 18, Krejcikova, still very far from the top level but who liked tennis, took her courage in both hands and went slapping at the former Wimbledon winner. They had a good discussion and Novotna offered him outright to become his coach. Here. Today every time she wins she has a big thought for her.
2:56 p.m .
: Interesting interview with Pavlyuchenkova on France TV.
The Russian, who was in the top 30 at 17, tells how complicated it is to meet the expectations that we place in you, and then to manage your feelings when you realize that you are not succeeding.
She even had depression and thought about quitting tennis at some point.
Today she is in the final at 29, after 52 participations in Grand Slam tournaments.
Frankly hat.
2:52 p.m
.: The preparations are reaching their ends on the Central.
Clear place is made for these ladies, who will soon enter the court.
2:00 p.m .
: And that of the fallen king, who easily recognizes that he can only blame himself.
"I'm not going to make a drama of it", philosopher Nadal despite his defeat via @ 20minutesSport https://t.co/iNbWUFmEGY
- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) June 11, 2021
2:00
p.m .: The reaction of Djoko, very moved after this victory.
Beating Nadal here, under these conditions, is one of the outcomes of his career.
"In the top 3 matches of my career", savors Novak Djokovic via @ 20minutesSport https://t.co/nAaYzVAqC0
- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) June 11, 2021
2:00 p.m .
: We'll meet again in an hour to catch the air, from here I'll leave you with a little reading.
A little story of the crazy night yesterday, with an audience unleashed and allowed to stay until the end of the match.
Thanks WHO?
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Roland-Garros: “Thank you Manu!
»… This time the public was allowed to stay despite the curfew
2:00
p.m .
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YooOOooo the company! Welcome home to follow this ladies final. We must say that we are just recovering from our emotions of yesterday ... Whatever happens today, a player will discover the joys of a victory in a Grand Slam tournament.
What an improbable finale.
In a tournament where we saw the favorites - if this term still means something in women's tennis, which is more and more difficult to prove - fall one by one, the Roland-Garros final opposes this Saturday the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to Czech Barbora Krejcikova, respectively 32nd and 33rd players in the world.
Whether one or the other wins, it will obviously be the best day of his career.
Former great hope, the Russian had to wait until her 29 years and her 52nd Grand Slam tournament to finally experience the exhilaration of a final.
The Czech, 25, had so far never done better than a round of 16.
This meeting promises to be indecisive, and this is not to displease us.
>> Meet just before 3:00 p.m. to follow this final with us ...
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