Karolina Muchova managed to eliminate world No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals of Roland Garros 2023 at the end of a nearly three-and-a-half-hour battle. Let’s get to know the finalist a little better, passionate about football and reading.
Five curiosities about the finalists
This was, in all likelihood, the best match of the entire women’s Roland Garros. Sabalenka and Muchova challenged each other in Philippe Chatrier’s setting with winning shots for over three hours and, surprisingly, the winner of the competition was the Czech, No. 43 in the world.
A career, his, that seemed capable of giving him much more, but which at 26 is giving him the greatest satisfaction. After a nightmare 2022, in fact, the results are back, as evidenced by the first Slam final that will be played on Saturday against Iga Swiatek (who beat Beatriz Haddad Maia in Paris that evening).
To most, Muchova may be a player little is known about, despite a great tournament she played at the Internazionali d’Italia, apart from a spectacular tennis court. For precisely this reason, today we want to give you five curiosities about the next finalists at Roland Garros 2023.
Czech passion
Karolina, apart from being passionate about the sport, belongs to a family of footballers. His father, Józef Mucha, was a midfielder for Sigma Olomouc and FC Zlín. He is currently the assistant coach of FC Slovako. However, his brother Filip is the goalkeeper of FK Teplice, who finished twelfth in the last Czech First Division championship.
Muchova is a great music lover and before each Grand Slam, she introduces herself in a concert. This happened with the US Open (she went to see Shawn Mendes), Wimbledon (Backstreet Boys) and Roland Garros (Beyonce with Karolina Pliskova, as her Instagram profile suggests).
A passion for music which inspired him to create and record a video of one of his songs during the Covid period, US Open Bubble. The song is about the lives of tennis players during a tournament played with the pandemic.
His tennis career, on the other hand, has often been interrupted by repeated injuries to the abdominal muscles (like our Matteo Berretini). a plague that does not always allow it to express its maximum (it may very well be deployed permanently top 10 World).
Besides these passions, Karolina is a great reader, as evidenced by her performance in stories Instagram, where books and cups of tea outside the tennis court are often seen in complete relaxation.