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US Open: Ons Jabeur after defeating Ajla Tomljanovic in the semifinals!

Ons Jabeur has reached the semifinals at the 2022 US Open. The Tunisian showed a strong performance against Ajla Tomljanovic and now meets Coco Gauff or Caroline Garcia.

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last edit: Sep 06, 2022, 11:07 pm

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Ons Jabeur is in the semifinals of the US Open 2022
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Ons Jabeur is in the semifinals of the US Open 2022

Ons Jabeur is the first US Open semifinalist. The Tunisian, who only reached her first final at Grand Slam level in Wimbledon, showed a very strong performance against Ajla Tomljanovic and is now waiting for the winner of the duel between Coco Gauff and Caroline Garcia, who played the second quarter-finals on Wednesday night of the day will be disputed.

In a balanced game, Jabeur managed the first break of the match, which the North African finally managed to win the set 6:4. However, Tomljanovic showed himself to be combative, gained the upper hand in set two and had the chance to equalize the set at 5:3 with his own serve. However, Jabeur fought back, holding her serve twice under pressure at 4-5 and 5-6 and sending the match into a tie-break.

Jabeur writes history

In this, Tomljanovic was the better player at first, but made an avoidable mistake to make it 3:3. Jabeur knew how to use this, stepped up after the change of sides and won two match points when the score was 6:4. In the first, a backhand by Tomljanovics landed in the net - after a little more than one and a half hours of play, Jabeur secured the deserved 6: 4 and 7: 6 (4) success.

Ons Jabeur is also continuing to write history: the 28-year-old Tunisian is the first African since the introduction of professional tennis in 1968 to reach the semi-finals of the US Open. Ajla Tomljanovic, on the other hand, knocked out New York's Serena Williams in the third round and then made it to the quarter-finals of the tournament for the first time.

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