(New York) Ons Jabeur, 5e world player, finalist of the last Wimbledon, qualified first for the round of 16 of the United States Open on Friday, overthrowing 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 the American Shelby Rogers (31e).
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The 28-year-old Tunisian, who is entering this stage of the event for the first time, will be opposed to the Russian Veronika Kudermetova (18e), which crushed 6-2, 6-0 the Hungarian Dalma Galfi (91e).
She started her match quite badly, showing a lot of clumsiness (22 unforced errors in the first set, out of 34 in total), certainly attacked by Rogers, quarter-finalist in 2020, who broke it three times.
But Jabeur, who is having his best season, as evidenced by his titles gleaned in Berlin and Madrid, then tightened his game, gaining precision in the exchanges, before seizing the opportunity in the 9the game to convert his only break point of the second set, won afterwards.
The third set was initially a formality. The Tunisian immediately took Rogers’ serve to escape 5-1, only to be broken once. She nevertheless ended up winning, after her sixth match point, as in their first two confrontations, in Taipei in 2017 then Cincinnati in 2019.
“It was a pretty crazy match, Shelby played very well. Even at 5-1, she made things difficult for me, I’m very happy to have continued to fight until the end, ”responded Jabeur on the Louis Armstrong court.