Wimbledon, today women’s semifinals. And it already assigns a title

It will be the women who will take the stage on Wimbledon Thursday. The paths of women’s and men’s tennis separate at the Championships, with the classic alternation starting from the semifinals: today the two finalists will come out, who will play the title on Saturday. While Friday and Sunday will be days of men’s semifinals and final respectively: Djokovic, Norrie, Nadal and Kyrgios are still in the running. However, there will be a point of contact between men and women on Thursday: the mixed doubles final will already award a title in this edition of Wimbledon.

FEMALE SEMIFINALS

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All this will take place on the All England Club Central, whose day program will be inaugurated at 2.30 pm by the match between Ons Jabeur and Tatjana Maria. Both are in the first Grand Slam semi-final of their careers, but if the Tunisian was among the favorites on the eve – she is seeded number 3 on the board – the German is the real surprise of the tournament: before this edition of Wimbledon, the number 103 in the world – 34, mother of two – had never made it through the third round in a Grand Slam. Following, on the field there will be Elena Rybakina and Simona Halep: on the one hand the Russian of Kazakh nationality (and therefore admitted to this edition of the Championships), on the other the Romanian who returns to play a Grand Slam semifinal at two and a half years of age. distance from the Australian Open 2020. The world around Halep has been turned upside down in recent times, with the arrival of Patrick Mouratoglou and the farewells of Adrian Marcu, Daniel Dobre and Darren Cahill, now in Jannik Sinner’s team. The final at Wimbledon would have enormous value for the former world number 1.

THE FINAL

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To close the day on the Centrale will be the mixed doubles final: protagonists on the one hand the Australian Matthew Ebden (number 444 in the singles ranking and 31 in the doubles) and Samantha Stosur (champion at the US Open 2011 in the final against Serena Williams and now in 11th place in doubles), on the other the seeded couple number 2 composed of Neal Skupski – British expert doubler – and the American Desirae Krawczyk.