Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the last representative of the top 10 in the race, is the first qualified for the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament in Madrid after her clear victory 6-3, 6-2 against Simona Halep, ex-world No.1 today 21st, Wednesday.
Halep beaten, we now know that a player will open her record in the WTA 1000 on Saturday, since the last seven in the running have never won in a tournament of this caliber, the most difficult after the Grand Slams.
For her second semi-final at this level (after Indian Wells 2021), Jabeur (10th) will face either the American Amanda Anisimova (33rd) or the Russian from qualifying Ekaterina Alexandrova (45th). The quarter-finals continue this Wednesday in Madrid. For his first two tournaments of the season on clay, Jabeur (27) reached the final in Charleston (United States), then the quarter-finals in Stuttgart (Germany).