LONDON: Marketa Vondrousova describes herself as a ‘calm’ person. Yet when the 24-year-old was dizzyingly close to the Wimbledon title, history on the line, the first unseeded woman to pilot to victory on Church Road — she had three championship points at 6-4, 5-4, 40-0 and she could barely breathe.
“I couldn’t breathe,” she said, speaking to select international media. Hand on her chest, she even demonstrated how she gasped for breath.
