Ons Jabeur (10th in the world) qualified this Saturday, April 30, for the knockout stages of the WTA 1000 tournament in Madrid (clay) by beating in three sets (7-5, 0-6, 6-4), the Russian Varvara Gracheva (73rd).
In the previous Jabeur round had beaten Thursday, the Italian Jasmine Paolini (46th) in two sets 7-6, 6-1.
Let us recall that let’s Jabeur retained his 10th in the world despite a defeat in the quarterfinals of the WTA 500 tournament in Stuttgart against the Spanish Paula Badosa Gibert (2nd in the world).