The current winner of Wimbledon instantly reacted to the misfortune of the French opponent.
Tennis player Elena Rybakina these days is defending the Wimbledon title won last season. A native of Moscow not only proves herself to be a tough athlete, but also sets an example from a purely human point of view. The noble act of the Russian champion really impressed the audience of the English tournament.
Title defense
Elena Rybakina’s victory at last year’s Wimbledon was a real sensation even for most tennis experts. However, over the past 12 months, the former Russian, now playing for Kazakhstan, has become a real leader of the Women’s Tour, showing a number of excellent results.
At the moment, the third racket of the world defends last year’s Wimbledon title. So far, on the grass courts in England, Elena is a little off. In the first round match, she defeated the 49th racket Shelby Rogers in only three games.
In the next round, Rybakina faced a dangerous Frenchwoman, Alize Cornet. An experienced opponent knows well how to defeat the leaders of world tennis. It was she who interrupted the record streak of 37 wins by Iga Swiatek last season.
“I’m sorry it ended like this”
The beginning of the match was left to Rybakina. The champion made a break on the first attempt and did not miss the advantage until the very end of the starting game. Elena easily took her pitch: four out of eight games were won by Rybakina to zero.
It seemed that the former Russian woman would quickly win a landslide victory in this confrontation and make an easy exit to the next round. But in the second set, Cornet groped for the game. Elena was getting more and more difficult every point …
The key episode of the game occurred in the 11th game. In one of the pranks, the Frenchwoman overdid it and fell on the lawn with a heart-rending cry. A moment later, a heart-rending scream rang out. Alize held on to her leg and literally sobbed in pain. Rybakina was the first to run up to her rival to find out what had happened.
She remained by Cornet’s side until a medical officer arrived on the court. The doctor worked on the Frenchwoman’s ligaments for almost seven minutes. During this time, her leg was hidden under numerous teips and elastic bandages.
“I didn’t even think that this could be my last Wimbledon. I thought: “Sprained ligaments? Think I’ll go out.” I heard people, they all applauded me. It was so cool! But at the same time, I was so hurt and anxious that I did not even have time to enjoy this moment of performance on center court. It’s a pity that everything ended like this, ”the RMC Sport edition quotes Cornet.
Despite the severity of the damage, Alize continued the match and even got to the tie-break. But she did not have enough strength for the decisive segment. As a result, Rybakina won in two games – 6:2, 7:6 (7:2). And the post-match handshake of the girls turned out to be very warm.
Fans are delighted
Fans were also impressed by Rybakina’s act. After the match in social networks, many admired the behavior of the athlete.
“It’s so humanly beautiful,” writes Carl LEPENTIER.
– Compassion, care … Just great! – Yakkhine Gyi echoes him.
“I love this girl,” admits Liana Fernandes.
“She has the heart of a queen,” Deepu enthuses.
There were also those who thought that Cornet was feigning, but there were a few of them. And someone even proposed to stop playing tennis on the grass. However, this is already something from the realm of fantasy.
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