Jabeur Beats Sabalenka, Reaches Wimbledon Women’s Final

July 13, 2023

Tunisia’s tennis sensation Ons Jabeur[ produced a superb comeback to beat Aryna Sabalenka on Thursday and set up a Wimbledon women’s singles final against unseeded Czech Marketa Vondrousova.

Jabeur, whose hopes were slipping away at a set and 4-2 behind, won 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-3 to reach a second successive final at the Championships.

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Vondrousova became the first unseeded player to reach a Wimbledon women’s singles final in the Open era by ending Elina Svitolina’s inspired run, winning 6-3 6-3.

Meanwhile, Britain’s Neal Skupski and Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof reached the final of the Wimbledon men’s doubles for the first time, beating India’s Rohan Bopanna and Australian Matthew Ebden 7-5 6-4.

Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid are through the final of the men’s wheelchair doubles after beating Martin De La Puente and Gustavo Fernandez 7-5 6-3.

Lucy Shuker and Dutch partner Aniek van Koot were beaten in the semi-finals of the women’s wheelchair doubles.

Fellow Britons Andy Lapthorne and Greg Slade both lost their respective men’s wheelchair quad doubles semi-finals.

Earlier in the competition, big name casualties like Venus Williams (women) and Andy Murray (men) were eliminated following underwhelming performances against supposedly weaker oppositions.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.

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