Madrid champion Jabeur rises to seventh in rankings

PARIS — Tunisia's Ons Jabeur matched her personal-best seventh in the WTA rankings on Monday after winning the biggest title of her career at last week's Madrid Open.اضافة اعلان

The 27-year-old, the first Arab or African player to break into the men's or women's top 10, beat American Jessica Pegula 7–5, 0–6, 6–2 in Saturday's final.

Pegula has moved up three places to a career-high of 11th in the world.

Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka slipped four spots to eighth.

The only place in the top 15 not to change hands was the world-number-one spot, with Iga Swiatek still holding a commanding lead at the top of the rankings despite missing Madrid due to injury.


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