A new opportunity arises for Ons Jabeur (6th in the world) to win his first Grand Chelem title, by facing this Saturday July 15, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. on the Central Court, the Czech Marketa Vondrouso (42nd world), in the Wimbledon tournament final.
After two Grand Chelem finals lost in 2022 in Wimbledon against the Kazakhe Elena Rybakina and the US Open against the world number 1, Polish Iga Swiatek, Ons Jabeur is offered a new chance of winning one of the most coveted trophies and entering history through the big door by becoming the first Arab and African player Home.
If Ons Jabeur is given favorite in front of the Czech Marketa Vondrousova, it will however have to be wary of a player with good physical condition, a formidable service and an excellent reception capacity. So many assets that allowed him to arrive at this stage of the tournament and to eliminate, among other things, in half, one of the serious contenders in the title, the Ukrainian, Elina Svitolina in two sets.
Psychological ascendancy
Another factor and not the least, the psychological ascendant that Marketa Vondrousova has on Ons Jabeur Jabeur because their last two direct confrontations were won by the Czech. The Wimbledon final will be the seventh confrontation between the two players.
Today, one of the two will win this first title of Grand Chelem so dreamy, both having already reached the final of a major: in Roland-Garros in 2019 for Vondrousova, Wimbledon and the US Open last year for Jabeur.
Since its final, the Czech has been operated twice on the left wrist (2019 and 2022). Fourteenth in the highest world after Roland-Garros 2019, she briefly came out of the top 100 at the end of last season and plays in London as 42nd. At 24, Vondrousova won only a title on the circuit (Biel 2017).
The stats of Ons Jabeur
Opposite, there will be Ons Jabeur, the first Arab player to have reached the quarter -finals of a Grand Chelem tournament (Australia 2020), the first Arab player to have played the final in Wimbledon (2022), currently 6th world player after reaching the 2nd WTA position in June 2022, she is also the first player to chain two finals in Wimbledon since Serena Williams (2018-2019).
Ons Jabeur has also won two of his four grass titles (Birmingham 2021 and Berlin 2022) and no player has made her 28 victories on this surface since 2021. The last to have won as much in three years is Maria Sharapova (2004-06).
Ons Jabeur is also the third player to have achieved the most Aces since the start of the tournament (29) behind Elena Rybakina (33) and Aryna Sabalenka (45)… Two players she beat in quarters and then in half.
It also successively fell four Grand Chelem winners: Bianca Andreescu (US Open 2019), Petra Kvitova (Wimbledon 2011 and 2014), Elena Rybakina (Wimbledon 2022) and Aryna Sabalenka (Australia 2023).
