Trailblazing Tunisian Ons Jabeur has become the first Arab woman to reach the last-16 at Wimbledon.
The 26-year-old tennis player showed her fighting qualities and a great range of shots on Saturday, coming back from a set down to beat 2017 champion Garbine Muguruza 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 in two hours and 26 minutes.Jabeur will take on 2020 French Open champion Iga Swiatek next. In the second round, Jabeur also beat former world number one Venus Williams. “Honestly, she’s just breaking down barriers.
The first woman from her country to do anything that she’s doing,” Williams said about Jabeur. “She’s inspiring so many people, including me.”Jabeur was so nervous when she moved to two match points she knelt down and was physically sick in the corner of Centre Court at the end where the Duchess of Cambridge was sitting in the Royal Box. “I’m actually having a problem with my stomach,” she said at her press conference after her win over Muguruza.“I have an inflammation. It has been going on for a while … It bothers me probably with the stress, fatigue, everything.
