Just above her right elbow, Markéta Vondroušová has tattooed the words: “No rain, no flowers.” There has been plenty of rain at Wimbledon this past fortnight and, appropriately, the 24-year-old Czech tennis player has blossomed into the most sensational form of her life.
She arrived at the tournament having only ever won four matches on grass, a surface she called “impossible”; now she is Wimbledon women’s singles champion, the first unseeded player to win the title.
