Slovenia’s Tamara Zidansek returns the ball to Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova during their women’s singles semi-final tennis match on Day 12 of The Roland Garros 2021 French Open tennis tournament in Paris on June 10, 2021. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia and Barbora Krejcikova from Czech Republic had different paths to today’s title match. Their individual victories over six successive opponents confirm that tennis matches are lost, now won.
Krejcikova was trailing 2-4 in the third set of the semi-finals but her defensive…
