​On Thursday, the women’s semifinals of Wimbledon-2023, the stage of the Grand Slam competition, will be held on the London grass, where Svitolina will meet with Vondrousova, and Zhaber will meet with Sabalenka.

Svitolina – Vondrousova and Zhaber – Sabalenko in the semifinals of the women’s Wimbledon-2023

Regardless of the results, we will have a new champion at Wimbledon as none of the four players have so far managed to lift the All England Club trophy.

• Elina Svitolina – the best result of Wimbledon: semi-final stage, 2019 (defeated by Simona Halep) and 2023 editions.

• Marketa Wondousova – The best result before this year’s edition was qualification in the second round, tested in 2021.

• Ons Jaber – The best performance at the All England Club – last year’s final, when the athlete from Tunisia defeated Elena Rybakina.

• Aryna Sabalenko – Twice Wimbledon semi-finalist: In 2021, she lost in the penultimate act to Karolina Pliskova, and now faces Ons Jabert for a place in the grand final.

Elina Svitolina (76 WTA) vs Marketa Vondrousova (42 WTA) / from 15:30

They have met five times on the world circuit, and the score is 3-2 in favor of the athlete from Ukraine. But in the last match, the victory went to a player from the Czech Republic: it happened at the Olympics in Tokyo, in the semi-finals (score 6-3, 6-1). However, this will be the first match on grass between them.

Elina and Marketa are obviously the big surprises of this year’s edition. The first gave birth 9 months ago, and the return to the track took place this year, and the player from the Czech Republic did not go beyond the second round in the entire history of participation in the All England Club.

Ons Jaber (6 WTA) vs. Aryna Sabalenko (2 WTA) / after the end of the first semi-final

The semi-final “final” will take place between Ons Zhaber and Aryna Sabalenko. Remaining the main favorite after the elimination of the Polish Iga Svyatek, Aryna is the favorite of the specialists.

However, it remains to be seen how and if Ons will be able to absorb the power of the opponent’s punches, the key to Ons’ game is his ability to dictate the tempo with the fantastic variation of his game.

A player as strong as Sabalenka needs to be played with variety, with changes of direction, slices that make her uncomfortable, and short ones that take her out of her comfort zone on the baseline.

Sabalenka leads 3-1 in head-to-head matches against Jaber, with the Tunisian’s only victory coming on clay at Roland Garros in 2020.

Since then, Arina has won all three subsequent matches, one of them on the grass of London itself: 6-4, 6-3 in the quarters of the 2021 tournament.

*You can watch the Wimbledon women’s semi-final live on Eurosport channels.