Canada’s Bianca Andreescu was ousted from Wimbledon women’s singles play on Saturday in a third-round, three-set loss to Ons Jabeur of Tunisia.
Jabeur, last year’s Wimbledon finalist and this year’s sixth seed, downed Andreescu 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the round of 16 at the grass-court tournament.
The unseeded Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., broke Jabeur in the third set to lead 3-1.
When play resumed with the roof deployed over Centre Court, Jabeur held serve to draw even at 3-3.
The 28-year-old Tunisian broke Andreescu again to lead 5-4 and serve for the match.
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Canadian Bianca Andreescu lost her third round match against 2022 Wimbledon finalist Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur (3-6,6-3,6-4). Bianca Andreescu played well during the tournament, but was ultimately unable to move forward at Wimbledon.
Jabeur will face ninth-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova in the fourth round.
Reaching Wimbledon’s third round marked the 23-year-old Andreescu’s best showing at the All-England Club since her debut in 2017.
The 2019 U.S. Open women’s champion was the lone Canadian playing singles Saturday.
Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., meets Russia’s Roman Safiullin in a fourth-round men’s singles match Sunday.
Second-round mixed doubles matches involving Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Montreal’s Leylah Fernandez were both suspended Saturday.
Dabrowski and Rohan Bopanna of India took the first set 7-6 (7-5) over Croatia’s Ivan Dodig and Taiwan’s Latisha Chan.
Fernandez and Dutchman Wesley Koolhof were tied 5-5 in the first set against Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Fabrice Martin of France.
Alcaraz continues to roll
Carlos Alcaraz played for the second straight day at Wimbledon and won again.
So did Christopher Eubanks, Aryna Sabalenka and Petra Kvitova.
Stefanos Tsitsipas also won a match for the second day in a row, but on his fifth consecutive day on court.
The rain early in the week at the All England Club has caused some chaos with the schedule, forcing many players to get on court day after day. Even more rain came on Saturday, delaying the proceedings briefly.
The backlog hasn’t seemed to slow down Alcaraz, a 20-year-old Spaniard who is seeded No. 1 and is considered to be the next big star in men’s tennis. Playing under the roof on Centre Court, Alcaraz advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon for the second straight year by beating No. 25 Nicolas Jarry 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-5.
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“Stay focused all the time,” Alcaraz said on court. “I knew I was going to have my chances.”
Eubanks, out in the open on Court 18, is a 27-year-old American playing at Wimbledon for the first time. He beat Christopher O’Connell 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) to stay undefeated at the All England Club at 3-0.
Tsitsipas already has eliminated two Grand Slam champions — Dominic Thiem and Andy Murray. On his fifth day in a row on court, he advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon for only the second time by eliminating Laslo Djere 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-4.
Eubanks and Tsitsipas will next play each other for the spot in the quarterfinals.
Third-seeded Daniil Medvedev, another player back out on court after a win on Friday, beat Marton Fucsovics 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 on No. 1 Court to reach the fourth round for the second time.
Sabalenka tops Blinkova
The second-seeded Sabalenka, who missed last year’s Wimbledon when players from Belarus and Russia were banned because of the war in Ukraine, defeated Anna Blinkova 6-2, 6-3. Kvitova, a two-time Wimbledon champion, beat Natalija Stevanovic 6-3, 7-5 in a match that was suspended late in the second set by more than two hours because of the early showers.
Also moving on were defending champion Elena Rybakina, No. 13 Beatriz Haddad Maia, No. 21 Ekaterina Alexandrova and No. 25 Madison Keys.
Saturday at Wimbledon is the traditional day when sports greats are honoured with seats in the Royal Box. They included former tennis stars Billie Jean King, Rosie Casals and Stefan Edberg, as well as Olympic great Steve Redgrave and former England soccer player Gary Lineker.