Angelique Kerber raced into her second Wimbledon final as the German
crushed former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 6-3 in just 67
minutes on Thursday July 12,2018
Kerber took the express route to her a fourth Grand Slam title match with a ‘blink and you miss it’ demolition of Ostapenko on Centre Court.
The 30-year-old hit only 10 winners but that was all it took to get the job done as Ostapenko shot herself in the foot with 36 unforced errors.
Ostapenko, 21, had admitted she cracked under the strain of defending the French Open title when she lost in the first round last month.
And the first Latvian woman to make the Wimbledon semi-finals was paying the price for more rash mistakes as the match slipped away.
Angelique Kerber faces seven-time champion Serena Williams in Saturday’s final.
Angelique Kerber was beaten by Williams in the 2016 Wimbledon showpiece.
It will be world number 10 Kerber’s first Grand Slam final since she won the second of her two major titles at the 2016 US Open.
Angelique Kerber is bidding to become the first German woman to win Wimbledon was Steffi Graf in 1996.
After winning the Australian and US Open titles and reaching the Wimbledon final two years ago, Angelique Kerber endured a significant slump in 2017.
But the former world number one has been reinvigorated over the last few months
Kerber took the express route to her a fourth Grand Slam title match with a ‘blink and you miss it’ demolition of Ostapenko on Centre Court.
The 30-year-old hit only 10 winners but that was all it took to get the job done as Ostapenko shot herself in the foot with 36 unforced errors.
Ostapenko, 21, had admitted she cracked under the strain of defending the French Open title when she lost in the first round last month.
And the first Latvian woman to make the Wimbledon semi-finals was paying the price for more rash mistakes as the match slipped away.
Angelique Kerber faces seven-time champion Serena Williams in Saturday’s final.
Angelique Kerber was beaten by Williams in the 2016 Wimbledon showpiece.
It will be world number 10 Kerber’s first Grand Slam final since she won the second of her two major titles at the 2016 US Open.
Angelique Kerber is bidding to become the first German woman to win Wimbledon was Steffi Graf in 1996.
After winning the Australian and US Open titles and reaching the Wimbledon final two years ago, Angelique Kerber endured a significant slump in 2017.
But the former world number one has been reinvigorated over the last few months
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