Tunisian Ons Jabeur, a rival who writes history

Tunisian Ons Jabeur, a rival who writes history

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Ons Jabeur, Tuesday, in New York. SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS

Qualified for the first time in the last four in New York, the current 5e world player will challenge Caroline Garcia for a place in the final.

Whether Caroline Garcia can write the legend of French tennis by the weekend, his opponent in the semi-finals, Ons Jabeur, never stops dusting off the history books of Arab tennis and African tennis. First Tunisian winner of an event on the big circuit, in June 2021, in Birmingham (on grass), first Arab player to win a WTA 1000 in Madrid (clay) on May 7, she is also the first to have integrated the top 10, in October 2021.

After quarter-finals at the Australian Open in 2000 and Wimbledon in 2021, she became the first player from the African continent to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament since South Africa’s Amanda Coetzer in 1997. Last July, at Wimbledon, the current 5e world player has established herself as the first from the African continent to reach the final of a major tournament since the start of the open era in 1968. Elena Rybakina shattered her dream in the finalbut Jabeur confirmed that she…

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