LONDON (Reuters) – Elena Rybakina beat Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur 3-6 6-2 6-2 to turn out to be the first participant from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon on Saturday.
With Russian and Belarussian gamers banned from the grasscourt main following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Rybakina would have been excluded from this yr’s Wimbledon had she not switched allegiance from Russia 4 years in the past.
(Reporting by Pritha Sarkar, modifying by Clare Fallon)
