Petra Kvitova Upsets the Odds to Beat Sharapova for the Wimbledon Title
Petra Kvitova ended Maria Sharapova’s dream of a second Wimbledon title today as she powered to her first Grand Slam title.
Sharapova is the highest paid female sports star in the world and the winner of 3 Grand Slam titles, so started as slight favourite for today’s final; but since coming back from a serious shoulder injury she has had to change her serve and still hasn’t quite recovered the form that saw her reach the top of women’s tennis.
Both players however, struggled from the start of the match to hold onto their serve. Sharapova broke Kvitova’s service game early on but failed to capitalise as Kvitova immediately broke back.
They were the first of 8 breaks of serve and both players really suffered when they failed to get their 1st serve in, Sharapova’s % of points won on second serve was below 30% for the entire match and Kvitova’s wasn’t much better.
It was Kvitova’s ground strokes that did the damage though. She manages to get enormous power, especially off the forehand side, and Sharapova struggled to deal with it.
In the end it was relatively straightforward for Kvitova who served out the match to win 6-3, 6-4.
Do we have a major new force in women’s Grand Slam tennis?
Photo: Huge.Look.Left
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