Ons Jabeur moved into the Wimbledon third round with ease following her 6-1, 6-1 win over Zhuoxuan Bai on Friday .
The second round tie was a very comfortable one for the Tunisian sixth seed and 2022 Wimbledon runner-up as she needed just 46 minutes to dispatch her Chinese opponent ranked 191st in the world and set up a last 32 clash with Canadian and 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu.
Ons a mission ????@Ons_Jabeur comfortably gets past Zhuoxuan Bai in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1 #Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/8mtdl2MSAR
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 7, 2023
In other women’s results at Wimbledon on Friday, African-American Madison Keys progressed to the fourth round in straight sets likewise her compatriot and fourth seed Jessica Pegula.
There were also straight set victories for world number one Iga Swiatek and two-time Grand Slam champion Victoria Azarenka. Her fellow Belarusian and second seed Aryna Sabalenka needed three sets to dispatch French woman Varvara Gracheva 2-6, 7-5, 6-2.
On the men’s side, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Holger Rune, Daniil Medvedev, Jannik Sinner, Andrey Rublev all moved into the fourth round.
A Centre Court debut to savour ????@steftsitsipas comes from two sets down to beat Andy Murray 7-6(3), 6-7(2), 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-4#Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/FNfG3cocQC
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 7, 2023
There were however third round upsets for British number one Cameron Norrie, his compatriot and two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray to American Christopher Eubanks and Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Swedish-Ethiopian Mikael Ymer’s journey also came to an end with a five set (2-6, 7-6(7-2), 6-7(5-7), 6-3, 1-6 loss to Daniel Elahi Galan of Colombia.
