Marion Bartoli won Wimbledon 2013 women’s title
This is her first Grand Slam trophy.
France’s Marion Bartoli won the Wimbledon
2013 women’s title on 07 July 2013 (Saturday) thrashing Germany's Sabine
Lisicki 6-1, 6-4. Bartoli claimed her
first Grand Slam trophy six years after losing the Wimbledon final to Venus
Williams. She becomes the first woman in
history to win Wimbledon without beating a top 10 player.
“I just cannot believe it,” said the
winner, who will move to seventh in the WTA rankings. “As a little girl of 6
years old, I dreamed of this moment".
Bartoli, 28, is the fifth oldest woman to
become a first-time Grand Slam winner in the Open Era. She took just 81 minutes
to rout 23rd seed Lisicki, who broke down in tears as the match slipped away in
the second set.
By finally winning her maiden major title
in the 47th Grand Slam appearance of her career, Bartoli surpassed the previous
record set by Jana Novotna, who won Wimbledon in 1998 after 45 appearances at
the majors. Bartoli, who will climb to seventh when the latest world rankings
are released on Monday, didn't drop a single set in her seven matches and is
the first Frenchwoman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Amelie Mauresmo
at Wimbledon in 2006.
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