Newly crowned Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova, who entered the women’s top 10 on Monday, plans to celebrate her victory by getting a matching strawberry tattoo alongside her coach.
The 24-year-old Czech has climbed 32 places to reach 10th in the new WTA rankings after winning her first Grand Slam title with a stunning three-set victory over Ons Jabeur in Saturday’s final.
She became the first unseeded player to win the women’s singles title and said afterwards that her coach Jan Hernych had promised to get a matching tattoo to celebrate her achievement.
“We talked before the tournament and he said ‘maybe if you win a Grand Slam then I will’. So it’s happening,” Vondrousova told a news conference, with the BBC reporting the pair would visit a Prague tattoo parlour later this week.
Vondrousova, a Tokyo Olympic silver medallist, got the first of her many arm tattoos at age 16 and said some have special meaning, such as her lucky number 13, the Olympic rings and the quote “No rain, no flowers” above her right elbow, signifying that success does not come easily.
Strawberries and cream have long been a tradition at Wimbledon, with organisers claiming that more than 1.92 million strawberries are consumed each year at the tournament.
