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Tunisian tennis player has reached the semi-final of the Madrid Open after beatingÌýthe former world number oneÌýÌýSimona Halep, in an exhilarating match on Wednesday.

, who ranks tenth in the world, beat her Romanian counterpart in straight sets-ÌýwinningÌý6-3Ìý6-2- in a match played in only one hour and seven minutes. Halep is currently the world's number 20 female player.

The player will face the world’s number 40, Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova on Thursday, where a win could see her in the tournament’s final.

Ons Jabeur: "Today is Eid, so I just wanted to wish all the Muslims .

"I won and it’s a great party for us today. So Eid Mubarak to every Muslim in the world."

— WTA Insider (@WTA_insider)

On Monday, Jabeur won the quarterfinal match against Switzerland’s Belinda Becic with two sets to one, coinciding with , which marks the end of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.

Jabeur told reporters: "Today is Eid, so I just wanted to wish all the Muslims Eid Mubarak. I won and it’s a great party for us today. So Eid Mubarak to every Muslim in the world."

Jabeur, who trains in the capital Tunis, became the first ever Arab female tennis player to earn a Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) titleÌýlast year, when she won the 2021 Birmingham Classic.

She is also the highest-ranking male or female Arab tennis player in the sport’s history, and the first to reach the , which was also achieved last year.

In 2020, she became the first Arab woman to reach a grand slam quarterfinal at the Australian Open.

Jabeur was named Arab Woman of The Year in sports in 2019 and was lauded for her Wimbledon tennis racket last July, in a bid to raise Covid-19 relief efforts in Tunisia.