With each victory, the world number 2 ons Jabeur rewrites the book of tennis records. Here is what is at stake when she faces, tomorrow Elena Rybakina in the Wimbledon final.
The world number. 2 World Jabeur from Tunisia and the n °. 23 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan will compete for the title of Wimbledon. The two women have reached their first major final and, whatever the result, the story will be written when they each walk on the central court for the greatest match of their career.
0: Previously, no Tunisian, Arab or African woman had reached a Grand Slam final.
0: Previously, no Tunisian, Arabic or African woman had reached a Grand Slam semi-final.
1: Before Ons Jabeur, only one Arab player had reached a quarter -final in Wimbledon. It is the Egyptian Ismail El Shafei who played the quarter -final in 1974.
0: No Tunisian, Arabic or Maghrebian woman won a WTA title before ons Jabeur.
0: No Tunisian, Arabic or Maghrebian woman played a WTA final or semi-final before Ons Jabeur.
1: Before Ons Jabeur, only one Tunisian and Arab woman was able to rank in the top 100 in the WTA ranking. It is the Tunisian Selima Sfar who reached 75th place in 2001.
0: No Tunisian or Arab woman has ranked in the top 50 wta before ons jabeur.
0: No Tunisian, Arabic or African woman has ranked n ° 2 or further on Ons Jabeur. South African Amanda Coetzer reached third place in 1997.
0: No Arab girl won a title of Grand Chelem Junior before Ons Jabeur, who won the title at Roland Garros in 2011. She was the first Arab junior to win a major title since the Egyptian Ismael El Shafei won the title of boys at Roland-Garros in 1964.
27: At 27, Ons Jabeur is the oldest woman to play her first single final in Wimbledon since Nathalie Tauziat in 1998.
23: At 23, Elena Rybakina has been the youngest Wimbledon finalist since Garbiñe Muguruza, 21, played his first Wimbledon final in 2015.
2: Two African players played a final in Wimbledon. Ons Jabeur joins South African Kevin Anderson in 2018.
0: No Kazakhstan player had reached a semi-final of a big home before Elena Rybakina. She is now the first player representing Kazakhstan to play a major final.
2: This is the number of defeats of Ons Jabeur in his last 24 games. She is on a series of 11 consecutive victories and is currently undefeated on lawn this season.
2: It is the number of lawn titles won by Ons Jabeur which has three.
84: This is the number of victories for Ons Jabeur during the 2021 and 2022 seasons, the largest number in front of the world number 1, Iga Swiatek, which won 81.
217: This is the number of Aces made by Elena Rybakina this season. No other player has performed more than 200 aces this season.
1: This season Elena Rybakina has played a final before Wimbledon. She started the season with a final in Adelaide, where she lost against the n °. 1 Ashleigh Barty.
4: This is the number of finals played this season by Ons Jabeur before Wimbledon. It is 2-2 in the final this year, winning Madrid and Berlin and loser in Charleston (Bencic) and Rome (Swiatek).
0: No victory by Elena Rybakina on a classified player n ° 1 or n ° 2. She has a 0-3 sheet against the 2 best players in her career.
0: No victory for Elena Rybakina in her last four finals. Since she won her second career title at Hobart 2020, Rybakina has lost a top 10 player in her last four finals: Adelaide 2022 (Barty); 2020 Strasbourg (Svitolina); 2020 Dubai (Halep); 2020 Saint Petersburg (Bertens).
