She headed the ball. She flicked it up with her feet. Ons Jabeur is obtaining enjoyable, and she’s profitable.

The Tunisian, who at No. 3 is the best-remaining women’s seed, highly developed to her 2nd straight Wimbledon quarterfinal with a 7-6 (9), 6-4 victory over Elise Mertens on No. 1 Courtroom on Sunday.

"It’s my variety of point to express a very little little bit my pressure through the match, executing amusing matters with the football or nearly anything (that) just assists me connect with the crowd," Jabeur reported of her ball techniques, like when she chased down and headed absent a lob from Mertens that went extended. "(To) be myself on the courtroom genuinely is extremely, extremely important."

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Tunisia's Ons Jabeur returns the ball to Belgium's Elise Mertens for the duration of a fourth round women's singles match on working day seven of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (WHD Photograph/Alberto Pezzali)

The 27-calendar year-previous Jabeur saved 5 established points in the tiebreaker — the closest she's arrive to dropping a set by way of four matches. She enhanced to 9- this period on grass, which features winning the Berlin Open up very last thirty day period.

Just over a 12 months in the past, she turned the initially Arab woman to win a singles title on the elite women’s tennis tour when she lifted the trophy in Birmingham — also a grass-court docket tournament.

"I appreciate playing on grass, I enjoy the link amongst character and me, so with any luck , it will continue this way for me and probably via the finals," Jabeur stated.

Shaking off the disappointment of a initially-round decline at the French Open up, Jabeur's ambitions are "extremely higher" at the All England Club.

"No issue who’s coming, I’m going to build the combat, I’m likely to combat until the conclusion simply because I truly want the title," explained Jabeur, who has under no circumstances reached a Grand Slam semifinal.

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Up next is unseeded Czech participant Marie Bouzkova, who highly developed to her to start with Grand Slam quarterfinal by beating Caroline Garcia of France 7-5, 6-2.

Tunisia's Ons Jabeur is dejected just after shedding a issue to Belgium's Elise Mertens all through a fourth round women's singles match on working day 7 of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Sunday, July 3, 2022.  (WHD Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Simona Halep is the past Grand Slam winner standing on the women’s side. The 16th-seeded Romanian won at Wimbledon in 2019 and at the French Open the yr ahead of that. She faces fourth-seeded Paula Badosa in the fourth round on Monday.

Jabeur and Badosa are all that's left of the top 15 seeds.

Also Sunday, Tatjana Maria eradicated 2017 French Open up champion Jelena Ostapenko 5-7, 7-5, 7-5 to attain her to start with Grand Slam quarterfinal at the age of 34.

"I generally considered that at a person position I can show what I can do," reported the 103rd-ranked Maria, who ousted fifth-seeded Maria Sakkari in the third spherical. "I’m satisfied that these days, I signify, I arrived back again when I was down, so I’m very pleased of myself."

Maria will encounter 22-calendar year-previous Jule Niemeier, who is building her All England Club debut, in an all-German showdown for a place in the semifinals. The 97th-rated Niemeier advanced by beating Heather Watson 6-2, 6-4 on Centre Courtroom in just her second Grand Slam match.

Jabeur explained her match, specifically the tiebreaker, as "10 out of 10 nerve-racking" but that she's coping much better now.

"I am breathing far better. I’m expressing extra my feelings before the matches. That will help me, like, genuinely play the sport that I want to play," she said.

Jabeur is not a large lover of the antics that had been on display in the fourth-spherical match between Nick Kyrgios and Stefanos Tsitsipas on Saturday.

"Tennis is a very gorgeous sport. It shouldn’t be that way," reported Jabeur, who right after her victory in the Berlin remaining well prepared a cooler with ice for opponent Belinda Bencic, who experienced stopped playing for the reason that of an hurt ankle.

So it was no shock that 90 minutes after her victory on Sunday, even though Jabeur was on a balcony undertaking Television interviews, fans yelled greetings to her from under.

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"Me, I’m just an individual that enjoys everyday living a good deal," Jabeur explained. "For me, a tennis vocation is likely to be quite short. What is extra essential for me is my character and how people discuss about me."