Wimbledon: Ons Jabeur dashes into fourth round at Wimbledon
Third seed Ons Jabeur once again raced through her latest match at Wimbledon to book a place in the fourth round.
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With her winning streak at 37 matches and counting, Iga Swiatek remains a warm favourite to lift the women’s singles trophy here on Saturday week after her 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 defeat of Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove on Thursday. But the fact that the No 1 seed surrendered only her third set since March – and to an opponent who qualified only as a lucky loser – should give hope to her rivals that a player who has seemingly forgotten how to lose may not be quite as armour-plated as she seems.
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Ons Jabeur marked her rise to number two in the world by easing into the Wimbledon second round with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Swedish qualifier Mirjam Bjorklund on Monday. Jabeur, a quarter-finalist in 2021 and fresh from the grass-court title in Berlin, raced to victory in just 54 minutes under the Court One roof.
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Serena Williams' eagerly-awaited return to the Wimbledon will be against French debutant Harmony Tan in the first round of the Grand Slam event as the American star returned to singles after a year out. The early focus at the Grand Slam event will be on 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Williams, who has fallen to 1,204th in the world rankings and is currently unseeded for the Wimbledon, which starts next week. She won her seven Wimbledon singles titles in 2016 but reached the final in 2018 and 2019 after returning to the court after having a baby. Her last Grand Slam singles crown came at the Australian Open in 2017.
Ons Jabeur says she has 'chosen' her career and doesn't treat the pressure of blazing a trail as a burden
Ons Jabeur says she has willingly «chosen» to take on the challenge of blazing a trail for the next generation — and that she is not finding it a burden. By winning the Madrid Open in May, Tunisian Jabeur became the first Arab or African woman to win a WTA 1000 event. Ad/> No male or female Arab player had ever been ranked in tennis' top 10 before her either, but she broke down that blank in October last year.