Vondrousova famously stormed to the Wimbledon title two years in the past after coming into the principle draw with a 1-4 lifetime report at SW19. She has since discovered to really feel the grass higher, and credit her motion as a catalyst for her rise on the floor.

After dropping to Emma Raducanu at Wimbledon within the second spherical in 2021, the Czech was 2-10 lifetime on grass. Since then she is 16-3 on the floor, and he or she’ll put together to face none apart from the 2021 US Open champion on Wednesday. 

“I really feel like I discovered the best way to transfer on it higher, as a result of total, I really feel like my motion is one thing that I actually use on the opposite surfaces,” she stated. “On the grass I felt prefer it wasn’t so good. I really feel like I simply wanted a few years to perhaps get used to it.”

Regardless of a first-round loss at Wimbledon final 12 months, the place she grew to become the primary defending champion to fall within the first spherical of her title protection since Steffi Graf in 1994, Vondrousova says she nonetheless remembers the nice greater than the dangerous.

She underwent shoulder surgical procedure quickly after final 12 months’s loss at Wimbledon, however her restoration was removed from a assure in her thoughts.