PARIS (Reuters) - Backhands and forehands can be manufactured on the practice courts but no amount of coaching can arm a player with the natural instinct Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova has used to reach the French Open final.
The unseeded 19-year-old from Sokolov relied on it on a blustery Friday morning in Paris to beat the more experienced and more powerful Johanna Konta 7-5 7-6(2).
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