DUBAI: Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur has been knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Omnium Banque Nationale in Montreal after losing 1-6, 6-7, 0-6 to American Jessica Pegula.
Before her exit in the last eight, 13th seeded Jabeur rallied to beat No.2 seed and defending champion Bianca Andreescu 6-7, 6-4, 6-1 after winning eight of the last nine games from 4-4 in the second set of a match that lasted two hours and 39 minutes.
Against Pegula, Jabeur was comfortably placed for another win as she served while 5-4 up in the second set, but her opponent Pegula kick-started a great comeback to claim a victory in 88 minutes.
Jabeur has had a stellar 2021, having reached a second Grand Slam quarter-final at Wimbledon in July — the first Arab woman to reach that stage of the famous tournament.
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus ended the Tunisian’s historic run at Wimbledon with a 6-4, 6-3 in 74 minutes.
Just weeks earlier, Jabeur became the first Arab woman to win a WTA title as she beat Daria Kasatkina of Russia 7-5, 6-4 in an epic 90 minute match in Birmingham.
