Barbora Krejcikova has come back to avoid becoming the second consecutive Wimbledon women's champion to lose in the first ...

After months away with injury, Barbora Krejcikova needed time to settle into her Wimbledon defense before finding her range ...

Defending champion Barbora Krejcikova, 29, said Filipina player Alex Eala (right), 20, left a strong impression on the Centre Court on her Wimbledon debut. ‘She was smashing the ball.

It’s rare for two players who face each other at Wimbledon’s center court end up enjoying their experience—especially since ...

Ms. Eala, an unseeded first-timer in Wimbledon and at centercourt against the champion at that, wore a Sampaguita hair tie from Nike in the said match in honor of the country’s national flower. And ...

AFP PHOTO Like Eala’s previous champion foes, Krejcikova found herself impressed with the first Filipina to have played in the grass major. “I mean, I would like to start with giving the credit to ...

“Wow, it’s the next generation coming. She’s going to come up and she’s going to be really good in a couple of years,” said Krejcikova, who hacked out a gutsy 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 win over Eala.

Eala skewed a sitter of a volley wide to hand over the crucial break for 2-0, and Krejcikova began to move through the gears, forcing yet more errors from her young opponent.