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By Martyn Herman. The year-old Tunisian is the only player from the continent in the women's draw and only the second Arabic woman ever to crack the top in the WTA rankings. She does have some company with fellow Tunis resident Malek Jaziri having scraped into the men's draw while South African Kevin Anderson, last year's runner-up, is the fourth seed. The WTA has grown its presence rapidly in Asia, a once under-represented region for a sport dominated by Europe and north America, but Africa has largely been left behind. Jabeur reached a career-high 56 in January, surpassing the 75th spot the previous highest-ranked Arab woman Selima Sfar achieved in , but it would not have made many headlines in the north African country where soccer rules. It's kind of tough because we don't have much experience in playing tennis," Jabeur told Reuters in an interview.