La sensation Muchova

La sensation Muchova

After an incredible comeback in the last set and after saving a match point against world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka, Karolina Muchova, 26 years old and 43rd in the standings, qualified for her first final in a Grand Slam tournament.

Amazing Karolina Muchova! Led 5-2 in the last set, the 26-year-old Czech player ranked 46th in the world before the start of this Roland-Garros managed to completely turn things around against Aryna Sabalenka (7-6, 6-7, 7-5 ) to finally bring down the world number 2 after more than three hours of play and offer herself the right to play Saturday against the world number 1 Iga Swiatek or the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, another unexpected of this last four, her very first final in a Grand Slam tournament.

A feat that the Australian Open semi-finalist two years ago (her best performance before Thursday) owes to her completely crazy comeback from the last round. Shortly after having rocked with a set lead by having won the first set in the decisive game (7-5) and succeeded in the entry break in the second set, Muchova, adopted by the Parisian public since the start of the fortnight and its new success against Maria Sakkari, former semi-finalist of the tournament, has indeed found itself on the edge of the precipice.

Muchova: “I don’t know what happened”

Almost no one in the stands of the Philippe-Chatrier court, with the exception of his box perhaps, could then imagine at this point in the game that it was the Prague woman who would end up exulting a little later. Especially since Sabalenka, victorious at the Australian Open at the start of the season and remaining on twelve games won in a row in the Grand Slam, got a match point. Muchova dismissed her with as much confidence and courage that she then lined up five games in a row, taking advantage in particular of her opponent’s numerous double faults.

A denouement such that even the future finalist had a hard time believing what she had just achieved. “I don’t really know what happened. Everyone pushed me, I kept fighting, but I don’t know how it happened (laughs). I am so happy. “She will be even more so if she manages to win her first Grand Slam title on Saturday, she who has won only one tournament in her life (in Seoul, in 2019).

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