Karolina Muchova is one of those who can play tennis seriously, yet another product of a school of talents. But she is also one of the most “unlucky” players in terms of injuries. The last one, on the right wrist (operated in February) he kept stopped in the pits for ten months (the defeat against the future champion Coco Gauff in the semifinals at the US Open at the beginning of September was the last match played by the Czech).
An injury that ruined an extraordinary 2023 that began at no. 151 in the ranking and ended among the world’s elite, on the eighth seat, above all thanks to an all-court, exciting and spectacular tennis, which allowed her to reach the final at Roland Garros – in Paris she canceled a match point in the “semi” in Sabalenka and only surrendered to Swiatek – and the “semi” in New York.
Today the 27 year old from Olomuc, who dropped to n.35 WTA, she returned to the field in Eastbourne: in her debut match at the “Rothesay International” she beat the Russian Elina Avanesyan, n.81 in the ranking, already beaten in the round of 16 in Paris last year, who withdrew due to a left thigh injury with a score of 3-1 to the Czech tennis player, after just 19 minutes of the match. A test too short to understand Karolina’s true conditions.
