Six months ago, Elena Rybakina stood timidly on Centre Court after she had achieved one of her dreams and imagined what more was to come. Her Wimbledon title was one of the ultimate achievements of her profession, but it told little about what would happen next. As players have struggled hard to follow up their first victories in recent years, one thing has been clear: winning even one major is hard.
It has not taken her long to show she will be a constant factor at the top. Rybakina took another enormous step forward in her career on Thursday by reaching her second grand slam final.
