Wimbledon 2024 Live: Barbora Krejcikova gets emotional as she supports Jasmine Paolini in final, tennis scores and updates

While Paolini took 2 hours and 51 minutes to complete his comeback, reducing Vekic to tears and propelling himself to the pinnacle of glory, Rybakina seemed to need about 60 minutes to defeat Barbora Krejcikovadream.

But these are all hypotheticals, and as the game progressed, it became clear that assumptions are a dangerous game.

Center Court Report:

“I think it’s definitely going to be a big fight. A big fight,” Krejcikova said of her anticipation for Saturday’s final against Jasmine Paolini.

“I know she’s a strong fighter and she showed that today, and so do I.

“I think both of us played great tennis and I think it’s going to be a great match on Saturday.”

Krejcikova became emotional as she spoke about her late coach, Jana Novotna, who won the 1998 singles title here.

Krejcikova: “It’s unbelievable. It’s hard to explain how I feel right now, but I’m very happy, very emotional, and relieved. And I’m very proud, very proud of the way I played today and my fighting spirit.

“I don’t know (what was different). I was at a disadvantage, I mean, I started 0-4. I was happy to win the first game, and then I just fought for every ball.

“I felt like in the middle of the second set, I started to get my groove back. When I broke her, I started to get into it and I didn’t want to get out of it!

“I’ve never dreamed of anything like it.”

Rybakina’s serve is relatively easy, and now Krejcikova will serve. Is there a final twist in this match?

Krejcikova easily won 30-0 and was just two points away from victory…

The score became 40-0, three match points!

Rybakina’s serve was called out!

Krejcikova reversed the victory and advanced to the Wimbledon final!

0-30, Rubakina had a chance to fight back immediately.

High score! Krejcikova closes the gap!

The gap completely disappeared as Krejcikova tied the score to 30-30.

Now she has game point with a powerful serve and a forehand winner!

She held on! This was an unpredictable game.

Krejcikova gets the crucial break! She came from a set down to now leading in the final game and will take a set in the final!

Rybakina was more consistent on serve, not dropping a point on her way to a 3-2 lead.

Krejcikova was strong in this serve game and took a 30-0 lead.

Then, Rybakina hit a forehand out of bounds, leaving the former champion shaking her head and sighing, and the Czech player had three game points.

Krejcikova bent over to hit a backhand but failed to get the ball over the line, and the match was lost, 40-15.

But she used a clever forehand drop shot to win the next point!

After some resistance, Rybakina stabilized the situation and saved her serve in the early stages of the deciding set.

Overall, it was a weird match, a little unnatural to be honest, but still fascinating!