WIMBLEDON, England — Elena Rybakina beat Ons Jabeur to win the Wimbledon singles title Saturday, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, giving a participant born and raised in Russia the game’s most prestigious championship a bit greater than two months after event organizers barred gamers representing Russia from taking part.
Rybakina, who started representing Kazakhstan 4 years in the past after the previous Soviet republic agreed to fund her profession, overpowered Jabeur, who faltered and succumbed to inconsistency after taking an early lead.
Rybakina was nervous and shaky early on, lacking seemingly straightforward rally balls lengthy and struggling to get her harmful first serve into the courtroom, however she settled down because the match stretched on. As soon as she discovered her rhythm, Jabeur had few solutions. She had an opportunity to attract even within the third set as Rybakina fell behind 0-40 serving at 3-2, however Jabeur couldn’t end the sport and Rybakina cruised over the end line from there.
On the ultimate level, Rybakina watched Jabeur ship one final backhand return vast and strutted to the online with barely a celebration.
