Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Wimbledon 2019 women's semifinalists


Wimbledon has reached the Final Four on the distaff side:

B. Strýcová, Serena Williams, Elina Svitolina, and Simona Halep.

So the semis will be Strýcová vs. Williams, and Svitolina vs. Halep.

Strýcová has reached her first Grand Slam semifinal, just like Svitolina.  So will the Wimbledon final feature two players that have never won a Grand Slam before?

I predict that it won't be.  Serena, sniffing history, will blast past Strýcová in straight sets.  On the other side of the draw, the Svitolina-Simona match will go three sets, possibly into extended games in the third, even possibly testing Wimbledon's new final set extended tiebreaker, and Simona will lose in a heartbreaking fashion and then require IV fluids.   Serena will then embrace her historical greatness in the final.

That's just how these things seem to work out.



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