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Tennis: Madrid champion Jabeur rises to seventh in rankings

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in action against Jessica Pegula of the US during their Mutua Madrid Open tennis tournament" s="" final="" match="" at="" Caja="" Magica="" sport="" complex="" in="" May="" Juanjo="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/overseas/05/10/ons.jpg"/><figcaption>Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in action against Jessica Pegula of the US during their Mutua Madrid Open tennis tournament&#x27;s final match at Caja Magica sport complex in Madrid, Spain, 07 May 2022. Juanjo Martin, EPA-EFE</figcaption></figure></div>PARIS, France -- Tunisia&#x27;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&#x27;s Madrid Open.The 27-year-old, the first Arab or African player to break into the men&#x27;s or women&#x27;s top 10, beat American Jessica Pegula 7-5, 0-6, 6-2 in Saturday&#x27;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.WTA top 20 on May 9 (players representing Russia and Belarus are banned from competing under the name or flag of Russia or Belarus until further notice):1. Iga Swiatek (POL) 7,061 pts2. Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) 5,011 (+1)3. Paula Badosa (ESP) 4,720 (-1)4. Maria Sakkari (GRE) 4,596 (+1)5. Anett Kontaveit (EST) 4,446 (+1)6. Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 4,152 (+1)7. Ons Jabeur (TUN) 3,895 (+3)8. Aryna Sabalenka 3,721 (-4)9. Danielle Collins (USA) 3,211 (-1)10. Garbine Muguruza (ESP) 3,135 (-1)11. Jessica Pegula (USA) 3,040 (+3)12. Emma Raducanu (GBR) 2,914 (-1)13. Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 2,725 (-1)14. Belinda Bencic (SUI) 2,466 (-1)15. Coco Gauff (USA) 2,410 (+1)16. Victoria Azarenka 2,336 (+1)17. Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 2,316 (+1)18. Leylah Fernandez (CAN) 2,191 (+2)19. Angelique Kerber (GER) 2,17820. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 2,092 (-5)<div>© Agence France-Presse</div>

Tunisia's Ons Jabeur matched her personal-best seventh in the WTA rankings on Monday.