Britain’s Emma Raducanu was denied a spot within the Abu Dhabi Open quarter-finals by second seed Ons Jabeur.
Competing as a wildcard in Abu Dhabi, the 21-year-old Raducanu misplaced 6-4 6-1 to the Tunisian world quantity six.
A shock US Open champion in 2021, Raducanu made her Grand Slam return ultimately month’s Australian Open after lacking the ultimate eight months of 2023 following wrist and ankle surgical procedures.
Jabeur, 29, will play Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia within the final eight.
Jabeur, a three-time Grand Slam finalist, was in spectacular type and hit 35 winners and eight aces on her option to a dominant win.
She led by a double break at 5-1 within the first set earlier than Raducanu threatened a fightback – the Briton breaking again and saving 4 set factors earlier than Jabeur served out the opener to like.
However Raducanu couldn’t forestall Jabeur storming to a straight-set victory from there and he or she sealed her progress in model by taking six successive video games.
British quantity 4 Heather Watson will tackle Spain’s Cristina Bucsa on Thursday, when prime seed Elena Rybakina additionally returns to motion towards American Danielle Collins.