Barbora Krejcikova has been crowned the Wimbledon women’s singles champion after defeating Jasmine Paolini.
It is the first time she has won the tournament. The result means there has now been a first-time winner of the women’s singles at Wimbledon for seven successive years.
The match went to a deciding third set, with Krejcikova having won the first 6-2, and Paolini winning the second by the same score.
Sky Sports’ Raz Mirza at Wimbledon said: “In the opening set Paolini was nervy, but she came out firing in the second.”
However, the Czech ace overcame Paolini in the third and final set, breaking her opponent’s serve to win 6-4.
In reaching the final, Italian seventh seed Paolini had become the first woman to reach the French Open and Wimbledon finals in the same year since Serena Williams in 2016.
While Czech 31st seed Krejcikova, who won the 2021 French Open, had failed to go beyond the fourth round in Wimbledon until earlier this week.
Last year’s Wimbledon winner, Marketa Vondrousova, lost in the first round last week.
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