NUR-SULTAN, July 9 President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev congratulated the tennis player Elena Rybakina with victory in the Wimbledon final. Kazakhstani tennis player Elena Rybakina defeated Ons Jaber from Tunisia in the final match of Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam tournament of the season. The meeting ended with a score of 3:6, 6:2, 6:2 in favor of Rybakina, who was seeded 17th. Her rival had the third seed number. Tennis players spent 1 hour and 47 minutes on the court. «Kazakh tennis player Elena Rybakina won a historic victory at the most prestigious Wimbledon tournament. I congratulate the outstanding athlete from the bottom of my heart!» Tokayev wrote on Twitter. Rybakina is a native of Moscow, until 2018 she represented Russia. In June 2018, she changed her sports citizenship to Kazakh. The 23-year-old tennis player played in a Grand Slam final for the first time in her career.Grand SlamsWimbledon WTA09 July 2022 • Start at 16:10EndElena RybakinaKazakhstan2 : 13:66:26:2Ons JabertTunisiaWimbledon, held on grass courts outside London, will end on 10 July . In April, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) refused to allow Russian and Belarusian tennis players to the tournament because of the situation in Ukraine. In response, in May the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) decided not to award Wimbledon ranking points.
