Tennis in Wimbledon: Becker raves about Siegemund: “History written”

Boris Becker raves about the German tennis surprise in front of Laura Siegemund’s Wimbledon quarter-finals. “She wrote history with her victory. What I particularly like is her authentic way,” said the 57 -year -old legend in a joint podcast with Andrea Petkovic. “Nothing is played, she doesn’t have too much make-up in her personality. She is the way she is.”

Siegemund today meets the world ranking classic to the classic grass. The game against the top favorite begins at 2:30 p.m. (CEST/1.30 p.m. local time) as the first game of the day on the Center Court. Siegemund has never reached the round of the best four at a Grand Slam tournament in her career.

Siegemund as the oldest player in the first Wimbledon quarter-finals

“There is nothing to lose,” said Siegemund. “There is a clear game that I will follow. And the nice thing is that I can go there completely easily.”

Victory Mund is the oldest player in Wimbledon history, which it made for the first time to the quarter-finals. “It can be drunken, this is a lost art, there are no longer many people and men who can rasp tennis, and Laura can do that,” said Becker. “She knows how to move on lawn, how much slice and how much aggressiveness she has to show.”

Other title opportunities dispensed with

Before the quarter-finals, Siegemund had foregone her commitment in the double round of dialt finals with the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia and thus another title chance. Unlike before the tournament, the Schwäbin had not been planned in the mixed due to the high load. The last remaining is the last remaining of seven German tennis professionals started.