Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: After 1: 6, 3: 5 - Ons Jabeur turns match against Ostapenko
Ons Jabeur stays in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart: The Tunisian won in round 2 against Jelena Ostapenko - after a great race to catch up.
by Florian Goosman from Stuttgart
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Apr 19, 2023, 11:15 pm
In the end it was 1: 6, 7: 5 and 6: 3 for the woman with the fine blade - she could hardly unpack the first two sentences in particular. Because Ostapenko played excellent Ostapenko tennis. And if that works, there is usually very little to get for the opponent.
"Ostapenko will win the French Open again, that's what I'm counting on now," colleague Katie Boulter had predicted on Twitter in the meantime, and yes, you could see it that way. Even after the Latvian, French Open winner 2017, had already shot Emma Raducanu out of the tournament on Wednesday. With the very tennis that she played through the entire tournament in Roland Garros in 2017.
Jabeur, another crowd favourite, faced the same fate as dear Emma; she sometimes seemed quite desperate when one winner after the other hit her side. But then, shortly before the supposed end, Ostapenko made a few mistakes and missed the chance for the tie-break. Jabeur equalized to great applause.
Nevertheless, it remained a close match in which the fourth in the world rankings finally managed the decisive break to make it 4:2 in the third set. In the end, five match points were still necessary before Jabeur sealed the decision with her ninth ace of the evening. With great cheers from the spectators in the Porsche Arena. Nice to see: the hug at the end and the nice words that Ons Jabeur, a good one, gave to her counterpart.
Jabeur is now waiting for the winner of the game between Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina and Beatriz Haddad Maia, who will play on Thursday evening.
Oh yes, and colleague Boulter: changed her mind after all. "Jabeur wins the French Open, that's what I'm counting on now," she wrote when she had equalized the set. Provided with laughing emojis.
Here the individual tableau in Stuttgart
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