she explained the next day in a post on X, formerly Twitter<\/strong><\/a>. “Partly because I\u2019m superstitious, and partly because I don\u2019t want to know who I\u2019m playing until I absolutely have to. But when @QueensTennis asked me to do it inside the London Eye, I couldn\u2019t say no.<\/p>\n“Why? Because last year, the night before the Wimbledon final, I was so nervous I jumped on the Tube and rode to the London Eye just to chill out a bit. And it clearly worked.”<\/p>\n
The occasion, alongside Jodie Burrage and tournament director Laura Robson, brought a smile to Krejcikova’s face in the midst of a tough spell since she lifted the Venus Rosewater Dish at SW19 last year — matching the achievement of her late mentor Jana Novota in the process.<\/p>\n
A lingering back injury curtailed the end of Krejcikova’s 2024 season — though she reached the semifinals of the year-end WTA Finals Riyadh presented by PIF, picking up a win over Coco Gauff in the process — and forced the former World No. 2 to delay her 2025 debut until late May. But back on the grass, Krejcikova is hoping to start her second half with a bang before returning to the All England Club for her title defense.<\/p>\n
Seeded No. 7, Krejcikova will face Slovakia’s Rebecca Sramkova in the first round of the WTA’s return to the Queen’s Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fraught with nerves before she faced Jasmine Paolini in the Wimbledon final last July, Barbora Krejcikova went for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-171639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-text","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114656320163191600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}