LONDON: Marketa Vondrousova was a long way off. A couple of surgeries on the left wrist, six months on the sidelines, her ranking had dropped out of the top-100. She was without a clothing contract. Last year, she sat on the sidelines, her hand in a cast, watching her best friend Miriam Kolodziejova play the qualifying tournament in Roehampton.
While the left-hander’s heady range has delighted Wimbledon, her tattoos have become the rage. Her body art is unusual, running across her arms, like an intricate pattern on a bedspread. There’s a message in there too, ‘no rain, no flowers’.
