LONDON—Jasmine Paolini kept coming back, kept coming back, kept coming back, against Donna Vekic in what would become the longest Wimbledon women’s semifinal on record—after dropping the opening set, after being two games from defeat in each of the last two sets, after twice trailing by a break in the third.
And all the while, this is what Paolini kept telling herself Thursday: “Try, point by point,” and “Fight for every ball.”
