Posted in: 01/07/2022 – 22:26
Tunisian Anas Jabeur, ranked second in the world, easily eliminated her French rival, Diane Barry, on Friday, to qualify for the fourth round of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, the third of the four grand slams. Jaber only needed 68 minutes to overtake Barry, ranked 77, in two sets, 6-2, 6-3.
won Tunisian Anas Jaber The world number two easily defeated Frenchwoman Diane Barry 6-2, 6-3 on Friday in the third round of English Wimbledon Championshipthe third Grand Slam in tennis, and qualifies for the fourth round.
Jaber, ranked third in the tournament, needed 68 minutes to overcome her opponent’s obstacle and set up a meeting in the next round with 15th German Angelique Kerber, 2018 champion or 24th Belgian Elise Mertens.
And Jaber hit hard at the beginning of the match and advanced in the first set 5-0 before finishing it in her favour, 6-2 in 39 minutes.
The Frenchwoman showed resistance in the second set and imposed a 3-3 tie before Jaber broke her serve in the seventh game and advanced 4-3 and then won the next two games and ended it in her favour in 29 minutes.
“I played a good match, it is not easy to play once morest young talents,” such as Barry, who is 19 years old, said Jaber.
The Tunisian, who has not lost any group in three matches so far, added, “She started well in the tournament that was allocated to her well-prepared in Berlin,” referring to her crowning in the German capital on June 19, the second for her on grass courts in her professional career following First in Birmingham English last year.
Jaber reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon last year, her best result in the major tournaments, as well as reaching the same role in the Australian Open in 2020.
FRANCE 24/AFP
