In a spectacular comeback win on Centre Court, Italian Jasmine Paolini, the seventh seed, beat Croatian Donna Vekic, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6(8), in two hours and 51 minutes to reach the final of Wimbledon.
The 28-year-old Italian is the first woman since Serena Williams in 2016 to reach the Roland-Garros and Wimbledon finals in the same season.
Paolini will make her Top 5 debut in the WTA Rankings on Monday.
“I’m feeling amazing,” the Italian said in her post-match press conference. “Today has been a really, really tough match. So emotional match. Yeah, I’m just feeling so great, yeah.
“It was really tough. Today was really, really tough. At the beginning I was really struggling. She was serving really well. She was make me run every ball.
“I wasn’t serving well. I was just trying to repeat to myself to keep going, try to be close to her, yeah, just believe that the match can turn whenever. It work, I have to say. Yeah, I won…
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