‘Watched It Like 100 Times’ – Simona Halep Remembers Her Famous Win Against Serena Williams at 2019 Wimbledon Final

The 2-time Grand Slam champion, Simona Halep had a pretty lackluster season so far. With many coaching changes and injuries, she failed to perform to her potential. After appointing Serena Williams’ farmer coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, as her new coach, she is raring to go to the next few tournaments.
Currently, she’s playing in the Madrid Open, her first clay-court tournament of the season. Before that, she talked about winning her first Wimbledon title after beating Serena in the final. 

Simona Halep replayed her win against Serena Williams at Wimbledon final many times

In a recent interview with Tennis Majors, former world no.1 Simona Halep sat down with Alize Lim to talk about various things in her career. Particularly, she talked about her loss in the 2018 Australian Open final, which gave her further confidence to win more majors in the future. 

“In 2018, when I lost the Australian Open final, I said the next time I would win. I was super confident even if it was like very hurtful for me to lose that final, I was leading. And then it happened and then in Wimbledon, I didn’t expect that I can play final on the grass surface, because we never had a court back home, grass court. So, I didn’t expect that I’ll be in the final and playing against Serena. I had like no expectations because I knew she was the queen of grass. She won so many times, so the pressure was not negative, was positive. I was super focused, it was my perfect day of tennis,” Simona stated. 

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Speaking about witnessing her win over Serena, the Romanian tennis player said, “I watched it like 100 times, but I watch it just for like enjoying, not analyzing what I did. I just love the moment, it was the best by far.” 

When asked about watching the whole match, she said, “Yeah, the whole match. It was not long. One hour, it’s okay to watch this (laughs).”

Simona is ready for the clay-court season

After losing to Iga Swiatek at the semi-final of the Indian Wells, Simona decided to approach Patrick Mouratoglou to be her next coach. And the French coach happily accepted the offer. Now, the pair is working really hard to get the desired success.

Today, she cruised through to the second round of the Madrid Open after winning her first match against Zhang Shuai; the final score was 6-2,6-3. In the next match, she could face the no.2 seed Paula Badosa, which will be a tough match for sure.

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