15-06-2011 14:07:00
The Tunisian Tenniswoman Ons Jabeur born on 28 August 1994 (16 years old and 9 months) won the Roland Garros 2011 Grand Chelem title . Runner up in 2010 in this same event, Ons Jabeur had a perfect performance by eliminating successively the best players in the World in the girls juniors category as follows :
- - 1st Round : Victory over the Japanese Makoto Ninomiya 63 62
- - 2nd Round : Victory over the Belarusian Aliaksandra Sansnovich 64 62
- - 3rd Round : Victory over the French Estelle Cascino 60 64
- - ¼ Final : Victory over the Russian Daria Gavrilova, number 2 in the World and seeded N° 1 of the tournament, 46 62 63
- - ½ Final: Victory over the French Caroline Garcia, seeded N° 3 and best French player, having reached the 2nd Round of the Roland Garros Womens tournament against Sharapova after leading by 63 and 41. The Tunisian had defeated her in 3 sets: 62 16 62
- - Final: Victory over the Puerto Rican Monica Puig 76 61.
With this big victory, Ons Jabeur can be considered as being a big pride for Africa and for her her country Tunisia that welcomed her with all the honors.
The President of the Confederation of African Tennis, all members of the Executive Committee and the African tennis family wish a lot of success to this young player whose future is certainly very promising.